August 2013: Indian boxing summer

Alexander BELENKIY.In boxing, the hottest time of the summer is not when fighting just a little, and fall. And this heat usually begins just at the time of the Indian summer. By the way, boxers and a woman (do not want to say "women) all combine perfectly.
 Agree, our favorite sport is very much would have lost if the ring between rounds did not go girl with cards on which were written some numbers and which, in contrast to the girls themselves, no one pays any attention.

BATTLE OF THE MONTH

GONZALEZ, Mares, a thimble and a bucket

August 24. Carson, California, USA. Jhonny Gonzalez knocked out in the 1st round of the Abner Mares (both - Mexico) and won the WBC title in the category up to 57.2 kg.

As the person at fault malopyuschy I appreciate not the quantity but the quality. Just do not think about what would I look down on people who would not exchange a thimble bucket tangle-legs Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé. In the end, a friend of mine - an outstanding connoisseur of Italian painting - never on such an exchange would not go. But I myself would wave without looking.

All this to the fact that the fight Johnny Gonzalez with Abner Mares was certainly unfortunate short, but has caused a real ecstasy. I would even say "ekstazm." I know that this word is not provided in the dictionary Ozhegova, but you know what I mean, and this is important. After all, as we know from the Soviet film classics, happiness - is when you understand.

In fact, it was a battle one hit, but what! And there is nothing accidental in it, by the way, was not. Gonzalez somehow tugged Mares. And he definitely saw the starting phase of fatal for themselves the left side. Kick in at the bottom, and, most of all, Mares has decided that Gonzalez strikes by the liver, and slightly lowered his hand, and that by itself is not the usual trajectory shot in the jaw. Mares tipped over like a bucket of water. He got up, but still remained in the land of dreams. Before the end of the round was not much, and the referee decided to give him a chance. It would not give. Gonzalez began just tear it to pieces, and to chime deal still not reached.

In general, we are on your thimble Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé, or something of the sort, of course, got it. But poor Mares was not a thimble, namely bucket. Not even tangle-legs, and a particularly nasty moonshine tequila, the fortress comparable to pure alcohol.

FIGHTER OF THE MONTH

MEXICAN Roly-Poly

Gonzalez deserves to be called a fighter of the month, not because I made the most spectacular knockout. Not because the strike, which he made it, was not accidental. And not even because he achieved victory enchanting though, apart from himself, in a very few people believed him. And so, at this critical moment in his career, he acted on the principle that once hailed by Vladimir Vysotsky in one of his songs about the climbers, "And you can collapse, break circumnavigate, but we choose the hard way, dangerous, like a military path."

Life never Gonzalez does not indulge. He began his career with two defeats, and he was then eighteen tender years. I think many people in his position would break. And he came to himself, won two years fourteen straight wins, twelve of them by knockout.

It seems that life is normal. But as it often happens, then changed her mind, and Gonzalez again suffered two defeats in a row, with the last knockout. Again, put a cross on it, but after three years and seventeen fights, in 2005, he won his first title - WBO in the category to 53.5 kg, for which he had to knock out the Thai Ratanchaya Sora Vorapin. Frankly, that was a random champion, prefers to lounge around bags and pears (or whatever grows in Thailand instead.) On the trouble, he and Gonzalez confused either with a bag, or with a pear - and got, like an ax head.

Champion's appetite has come to champion Gonzalez during a meal. The following 2006, he attempted to win the WBC title and category to 55.3 kg, but here it is hard siege (which in this context means - KO) is the famous Mexican Israel Vazquez, and a year later, and Gonzalez lost his WBO title in the previous weight, as it knocked out Filipino Gerry Penaloza, after which Gonzalez has habitually listened othodnyak own.

However, perhaps we could get used to this. And this habit Gonzalez came in handy again soon. In 2009, he met with world champion by the WBC in weight to 55.3 kg Japanese Tosyaki Niseko and sent him to a heavy knockdown in the first round. And all that for the third lefty Niseko cut it like an ax, his left straight.

But Johnny Gonzalez, this Mexican Roly-Poly, got to his feet and began to climb again to the top. He reached it in 2011, when the Japanese knocked Hodzumi Hasegawa and won the WBC title in the category to 57.2 kg. However, in September last year, Gonzalez lost the fight and the title to his compatriot Daniel Ponce De Leon. Along the way, Gonzalez conceded opponent in round 6 was knocked down, and the eighth was cut, after which the judges are considered glasses, and this count was not in favor of Johnny.

Habitually played a funeral march, after which Gonzalez more familiar "rose from the grave." De Leon, meanwhile knocked out Abner Mares, who at that time has established itself in the status of the star. But then came alive forever Johnny Gonzalez and ruined his whole raspberries. And, apparently, he would do something like that, and yet many many times.