On December 6, a 12-legged super-middleweight match in Los Angeles came to an end, and after 36 minutes of fighting, Spanish boxing champion Sergio Garcia, known as "Boxing Nadal", lost to 23-year-old American rising star Sebastian Verdona with a unanimous decision, breaking out a big upset.
Before the start of this battle, the 29-year-old Garcia maintained an excellent record of 33 wins against 14 KO opponents, although his knockdown rate is not high, but the tenacious will quality and dare to be tough with any master is quite similar to Nadal, as we all know, Nadal on the tennis court is not a serve heavy gunner, but his bottom line stalemate technology and playing style that can't afford to run to death make every opponent feel headaches, and Garcia also holds this valuable quality.
However, since Verdona is 1.97 meters tall, which is absolutely different in the 154-pound super middleweight, no one will adapt to such a monster-level opponent, you know, 154 pounds is equivalent to about 70 kilograms, and a 70 kilogram person reaches 1 meter 97, what kind of body proportion is this? I believe that everyone should have a clear picture through brain supplementation.
Although Garcia, who is 1 meter 82 tall, played very hard, there were several clear hits of Verdona in the game, and even hit the opponent in the last 10 seconds of the last round, but Garcia's heavy punch was still a little worse, and finally played 12 rounds, the Spaniards lost 113-115, 111-117, 110-118, and the 33-game victory record was ended.
However, the winning "ma ma boxing king" Verdona should not be too happy too early, although he won an important victory before challenging the world's golden belt, and then he could compete with Rubin for the right to challenge the WBC championship, but he also exposed weaknesses such as insufficient heavy punches and slightly poor confrontation ability, and with his current strength, it may be very difficult to defeat active champions such as Charlo Jr.