{"id":53236,"date":"2015-06-14T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53236"},"modified":"2015-06-14T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:57:10","slug":"felix-verdejo-dominates-ivan-najera-puts-boxing-world-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53236","title":{"rendered":"Felix Verdejo Dominates Ivan Najera: Puts Boxing World on Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53237 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/felix-v.jpg\" alt=\"felix v\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Travis &#8220;Novel&#8221; Fleming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, live from the Madison Square Garden Theatre in New York, on the HBO undercard of Nicholas Walters vs Miguel Marriaga, was another fighter who in a few years will likely have his name alongside Walters, Terrence Crawford, and Vasyl Lomachenko on the pound for pound list of the future in Puerto Rico&#8217;s Felix Verdejo, 18-0, 13 KO&#8217;s. Verdejo seems poised to take the torch from Miguel Cotto, Iike Cotto did from Felix Trinidad, as the next superstar from the boxing crazed island of Puerto Rico. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like Walters, in the main event, Verdejo showed that he can do it all. His opponent was no pushover. Ivan Najera, 16-0, 8 KO&#8217;s, came into the fight undefeated as well, and he is a tough customer who took some monstrous punches and kept coming, but Verdejo showed he was a class above. Verdejo out boxed and out slugged Najera, impressing in his first major card appearance on HBO. I think we saw Verdejo throw every punch possible in boxing, he has an incredible punch variety. He has a bit of mean streak too, when his opponent lands he instantly fires back with bad intentions. He&#8217;s a very good counter puncher, goes to the body, has good power, great ring generalship and above all he has the composure and patience of a wily veteran at only 22 years old. Verdejo made it look easy against hungry, undefeated prospect Ivan Najera. He controlled every round, winning a shutout decision over ten rounds and knocking Najera down in rounds 5 and 7.<\/p>\n<p>This kid is going to be a star, and he will likely get a title shot within a year. He&#8217;s a very big lightweight who could fill out to welterweight in no time, so don&#8217;t be surprised to see him move up in weight, collecting belts along the way. I just hope he remains a lightweight long enough for Nicholas Walters to move up from featherweight, because a fight between these two would be an intriguing battle of prototypical boxer\/punchers.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis &#8220;Novel&#8221; Fleming Saturday night, live from the Madison Square Garden Theatre in New York, on the HBO undercard of Nicholas Walters vs Miguel Marriaga, was another fighter who in a few years will likely have his name alongside Walters, Terrence Crawford, and Vasyl Lomachenko on the pound for pound list of the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13023],"class_list":["post-53236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-felix-verdejo-dominates-ivan-najera-puts-boxing-world-on-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53236"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}