Munguia’s Career On The Line: Surace Rematch, Riyadh – May 3rd

Jaime Munguia and Bruno Surace will meet in a rematch at super middleweight as the chief support bout on May 3rd on the undercard Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia.

Salvador Rodriguez reports that Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) will battle the unbeaten Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) after being knocked out by him in six rounds last year on December 14th in Tijuana, Mexico.

Career Suicide?

It’s a foolhardy move by Munguia, 28, to take the rematch right away without getting a tuneup under his belt to help put some distance between what the Frenchman Bruno Surace did to him two months ago. That’s got to be a haunting experience for Munguia. If there are remnants still there from that knockout, Jaime won’t last long before he’s knocked out again.

This guy is all wrong for Munguia, who has too many miles on his odometer from a long career to be taking the kind of shots that the younger, fresher Surace will be hitting him with. The 46 fights that Munguia has had in his career have taken a lot out of him. We saw that not only against Surace but also in Munguia’s fights against Canelo, Erik Bazhinyan, Sergiy Derevyanchenko, and Gary O’Sullivan.

Surace, 26, came into the fight last December as not having a reputation for being a puncher, but you could see from the second round that he was lethal with his cobra-like right hand. Munguia had dropped him in that round.

As soon as the action retarded, Surace nailed Munguia with a right hand that was thrown lightning quick, and it was a surprise the Mexican fighter stayed on his feet. Surace continued to hit Munguia with that same shot in rounds 3, 4, and 5 until knocking him out in the sixth.

Easy Money for Surace

If Munguia gets knocked out again by Surace, he needs to think about retiring because it’s only going to get worse for him. Moving back down to 160 might be an option for Munguia to salvage his career, but even in that weight class, there are some killers, like Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz, who will finish what Surace started.

Munguia looks shot to bits at this point in his career. The thing is, he was never good, to begin with, and more of a protected hype job, some belief created solely to get big money cash out against Canelo. Now that he’s fulfilled his destiny, he’s a spent shell, like a spider that lays eggs and dies.