Lindolfo Delgado already was a prime newbie and unbeaten prospect.
A transfer to coach Robert Garcia to take his skillset to the following degree was a necessity to compete within the talent-rich junior welterweight division. The transfer has paid off dividends as he has been spectacular and may very well be a win or two away from preventing for a world title belt.
Delgado will face Bryan Flores Saturday night time at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ten-round bout will precede the primary occasion bout between IBF world featherweight titleholder Luis ‘Venado’ Lopez and former world junior featherweight titleholder Angelo Leo.
Each fights will air dwell on ESPN (10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT).
Saturday’s conflict between Delgado (20-0, 15 knockouts) and Flores is compelling in that each are aggressive boxer-punchers. Each are aware of each other from their newbie days, and every has excelled within the professional ranks on their option to unblemished data.
Delgado isn’t overlooking Flores (26-0-1, 15 KOs) of Ciudad Juarez and anticipates an motion combat for the followers to get pleasure from.
“It’s an excellent combat,” Delgado instructed The Ring in a current interview. “Bryan Flores is an excellent fighter with loads of expertise. He sits down on his punches and in addition hits arduous. It is a combat that can trigger fireworks. We hope it goes properly and in our favor. I ready very properly. I additionally really feel robust. It would present within the combat what we’ve been engaged on.”
The 29-year-old Delgado, who resides in Linares, Mexico, presently fights below the Prime Rank banner after signing on with Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) prior to creating his professional debut in April 2017. Delgado represented Mexico on the 2016 Olympic Video games in Rio de Janeiro.
Delgado has been below the steering of Garcia for the final a number of months. He has had the fortune of not solely working the mitts with Garcia, son Robert Garcia, Jr., however has had nice sparring with the likes of former world unified titleholder Jose Ramirez, newly-crowned WBA world junior welterweight titleholder Jose Valenzuela, and light-weight contender Raymond Muratalla.
An improved skillset below the tutelage of Garcia and the standard sparring on the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Riverside, California have benefited Delgado, who believes he has but to hit his ceiling.
“Honestly, we’ve ready and labored properly (with him),” mentioned Delgado, who’s ranked within the prime 15 in two of boxing’s sanctioning our bodies. “Robert’s crew has supported me and has strengthened my need to be the perfect within the sport. I’m extra motivated. It’s not simply Robert. It’s additionally his father, Eduardo. Robert’s son, ‘Pita’ (Robert Garcia, Jr.), and different trainers who’re there within the gymnasium. Felipe (Campa). They’ve assisted me. I’ve labored arduous with them. I take note of what they inform me. And we’ve been bettering after every combat.
“(Garcia’s coaching routine) has helped me loads. I had a special fashion within the amateurs. I got here right here with Robert and I started to sit down down extra on my punches. Having the fundamentals have helped me, however the expertise I gained preventing for a few years as an newbie, together with the Nuevo Leon crew and the Mexican nationwide crew, helped me loads. All these elements have allowed me to reach at this level in my profession. This has helped me loads.”
Delgado additionally credit the camaraderie with different prime fighters, a few of whom are the perfect within the sport, as one other profit in his profession.
“Realistically, you are feeling the assist from everybody,” mentioned Delgado. “From the trainers and the fighters. They let you know to stick with it and provides it your all. Battle this manner. Do that technique. We assist one another out. We don’t maintain again after we spar. We respect one another and we assist one another. I spoke to ‘Rayo’ (Jose Valenzuela), Raymond (Muratalla), (once-beaten) Oscar Duarte. Everybody helps you out and provides you recommendation. You develop as a fighter and assist one another.”
The 140-pound division is a who’s who of world titleholders, contenders, unbeaten fighters, and prime prospects. Delgado would seemingly already be within the top-10 of The Ring scores, however is probably going a formidable win or two away from cracking the top-10.
Delgado believes he’s already within the combine amongst the perfect within the division, and is assured he can excel in opposition to any fighter, if given the chance.
“I’m glad to be in that division. It’s a scorching division. It’s filled with superstars. Honestly, I consider I’m within the combine with these fighters. I simply hope for a chance in opposition to any one in all them to display and keep there, and to combat in opposition to (the remainder of) them. For me, it might be an incredible alternative. I feel it might profit me to combat them as a result of I may give all of them an incredible combat.”
Delgado is assured of a win over Flores Saturday. He believes spectacular victories will make new followers, and proceed his ascent up the ladder of the 140-pound division.
“I wish to maintain demonstrating what I’ve been doing. I wish to win in an exquisite approach. In a formidable approach. Clearly, fights turn into sophisticated, however I wish to win in a formidable method the best way I’ve performed it in previous fights.
“I would like combat followers to proceed attending to know me and take an enormous step ahead.”
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He could be reached at [email protected]
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