High Rank has signed a multi-fight take care of tremendous middleweight contender Jaime Munguia for him to battle on ESPN.
It is a co-promotional take care of Munguia (43-1, 34 KOs) preventing for High Rank and Zanfer Promotions. Munguia, 27, might be preventing his first match for High Rank on September twentieth towards Erik Bazinyan in Phoenix.
The Canelo Rematch Angle
If Munguia is victorious towards the unbeaten Bazinyan, it’s believed that he’ll face #1 WBC Christian Mbilli in a battle that might put the winner in place to problem champion Canelo Alvarez for that belt.
That’s seemingly the objective for High Rank in signing Munguia to rapidly angle him for a profitable rematch towards Canelo, making it worthwhile to signal him.
It’s unclear whether or not Canelo will entertain a rematch with Munguia so rapidly after beating him final Could by a twelve-round unanimous determination.
The boxing public gained’t be thinking about seeing a rematch between them peddled on PPV in 2025 if Munguia quickly turns into Canelo’s WBC obligatory by beating Banzinyan and Mbilli.
Weak Tremendous Middleweight Division
These guys aren’t thought of the assassin’s row of contenders at 168, however the division is so weak now that these two are sadly what quantities to be the highest contenders.
Canelo didn’t wish to battle David Benavidez, and David Morrell Jr. gave up on the concept of preventing him when he, too, was ignored. Each abilities have moved as much as 175, leaving lesser fighters, Mbilli, Banzinyan, and Munguia, to battle to get an enormous payday towards Canelo. That’s the prize they’re all searching for, and the belts he holds seemingly don’t have anything to do with it.
Aside from that large payday battle, Munguia isn’t value a lot as a result of he’s flawed. It’s extensively believed that his earlier promoters at Golden Boy protected him all these years since signing him in 2018.
They matched Munguia rigorously to get him the large Canelo payday, and so they barely succeeded. He got here near shedding earlier than then towards 38-year-old Sergiy Derevyanchenko final yr, and he seemed horrible in that battle. If not for the knockdown within the twelfth, Munguia would have misplaced.
High Rank Match Munguia Fastidiously
If High Rank needs to maintain Munguia for the lengthy haul by extending his contract when it expires, they need to match him as rigorously as they did with Edgar Berlanga when he was with them for his first 20 fights.
Berlanga and Munguia are mainly interchangeable. They’re the identical fighters, and that’s why High Rank has received to be very cautious with how they match Munguia to keep away from watching him get crushed repeatedly.
Munguia is simply too flawed to be trusted towards good fighters like Caleb Plant and Diego Pacheco. He’s fortunate that Benavidez and Morrell moved up as a result of these two would do straightforward work of Munguia, ruining any plans High Rank might need of maneuvering him right into a rematch with Canelo.
