Canelo and Munguia preciously were promoted by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions but no longer are.
Two of Mexico’s star boxers no longer box for De La Hoya but he still keeps an eye on their fights.
Speaking on the new Ring Podcast segment De La Hoya said of Munguia’s upset loss to Frenchman Bruno Surace last year, one that many thought was the upset of the year when he lost the contest by Surace landing a big knockout blow:
“And that’s exactly what we did with Canelo and Munguia. We were building Munguia, fighting him the right fights, getting him the perfect platform on DAZN, and making sure that he fights the right styles, making sure that he doesn’t get caught with these unanswered punches because styles make fights, as you know. This was just a wrong style for him, and it was very unfortunate. I’m sure he took this fight very lightly because when you face Canelo and you have the fight of your life, and now you’re facing somebody who is relatively unknown – this kid, I believe he was from France, with four knockouts – you don’t train as hard, you don’t train to stay focused, you don’t train to literally become a legend inside the ring and make a statement; you train just to get by and make that payday. And that’s exactly what he did. Look, he had his hands down, got caught, and that was it for him.”
De La Hoya makes some good points at the end there in particular.
A small number of very weak individuals were quick to kick Munguia when he was down last year after the knockout loss.
Anyone, and there are only a tiny, tiny number of weak cowards in life that ever do, that kicks another a man when he is down are pond scum and garbage, that always, always, always get what is coming to them. What goes around comes around — Munguia will be back.
Munguia is one of Mexico’s best fighters of these times and at the highest level of professional boxing all it takes is one punch.
He simply got over aggressive and these things happen in top flight boxing.
Alas, to write Munguia off in 2025 and beyond would be a very unwise, misinformed and misguided thing to do.
Particularly now Munguia recently joined Canelo’s coach Eddy Reynoso in terms of selecting him as his new head trainer, too, moreover.
Munguia will be around the likes of Canelo Alvarez and Teofimo Lopez whom are also trained by Reynoso.
Expect big things in the future for Munguia, whom, certainly will be in quality, big fights again at some point.
