Dear boxing fans, you all are invited to enjoy the opening HBO fight will be junior middleweight contenders Carlos Molina (19-4-2, 6 KOs) and James Kirkland (30-1, 27 KOs) for a scheduled 12-round bout from the Reliant Arena, in Houston, Texas.
Match: Kirkland vs Molina
Venue: Houston, Texas, USA
Date: Saturday March 24, 2012
Title: Junior Middleweight | 12 rounds
Time: 10:15 p.m. ET
Junior middleweight contender James Kirkland (30-1, 27 KO’s) takes an important step towards an eventual world title on March 24th in a 10 round scheduled fight against contender Carlos Molina (19-4-2, 6 KO’s) in a fight on the undercard of the Erik Morales vs. Danny Garcia card at the Reliant Arena, in Houston, Texas.
In some ways, Kirland’s fight against the less than pulverizing punching Molina is a much tougher test for him than his last fight against Alfredo Angulo, because Molina is a much busier fighter with better conditioning than Angulo showed in his loss to Kirkland, and is good at fighting on the inside. Kirkland won’t be able to count on the 28-year-old Molina gassing out after the 1st round like he did in his last fight against Angulo.
In that bout, Kirkland was knocked down in the 1st round by Angulo but in the process of trying to finish Kirland off, Angulo completely wore himself out. Angulo never got his second wind and took punishment from Kirkland until the fight was eventually halted in the 6th. For a professional boxer ranked in the top 5, Angulo looked really poor. Molina won’t gas out like that and Kirkland is going to have to really pour it on if he wants to get a victory over him.
Kirkland, #2 WBC, #3 WBO, needs a win over Molina to keep in line for an eventual fight against WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez in the future whenever that happens. Kirkland probably won’t get the chance in 2012, but if he’s really lucky he might get the opportunity to fight Alvarez in 2013 unless Golden Boy Promotions, the promoters for Alvarez, decide to steer Alvarez around Kirkland for two to three years waiting for the 21-year-old Alvarez to mature as a fighter. In that case, Kirkland will need to go after the WBO champ Zaurbek Baysangurov.
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