After an extremely busy last weekend, we had a slate of fights this weekend void of anything serious in the US or UK. Yet, the sport marches on. Fights in Japan and Mexico including a Daniel Roman secondary title win and a controversial Antonio Margarito finish had serious impacts on the S8C Top 25.
In the most prominent fight this week, former Antonio Margarito won a controversial technical decision over high level journeyman Carson Jones in Mexico. Regardless of what the records say though, Jones won that fight or scored a draw at first. He also seemed well on his way to a definitive win had the fight not been stopped somewhat suspiciously due to a cut. With that in mind, I moved Jones up two spots to #22. Margarito fell from twenty second to completely out of the rankings. He is not a top twenty five junior middleweight in his current form.
The bigger winner this week was California based super bantamweight Daniel Roman. In traveling to Japan and upsetting then tenth ranked Shun Kubo, Roman launched himself all the way from twenty third to #10 in the rankings. Kubo fell from tenth to #16 following his stoppage loss.
Conversely, previously ninth ranked super flyweight Luis Concepcion of Panama suffered a massive upset to unranked Iran Diaz on the road in Mexico. Accordingly, Concepcion plummeted from ninth all the way to #21. It was a bad loss. Iran Diaz debuted one slot ahead of him at #20.
Two other fighters entered the rankings, though in truth they probably should have been there the whole time. I confess that I do this by hand and can forget fighters. Thankfully they then fight and I am reminded. In this case, veteran Ricardo Nunez joined the bantamweight rankings at #14 while young rising Mexican prospect Eduardo Hernandez entered a tougher to crack junior lightweight division at #22.
Heavyweight Eric Molina also picked up a low level win, but he held firm in the rankings.
