In what is a bad blow to tomorrow night\u2019s undercard action on the Mario Barrios-Manny Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas, it\u2019s been reported by Mike Coppinger that Angel Fierro will not now be squaring off with Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz as originally set. The rematch is now off, this because Fierro struggled mightily to make weight, and he has been pulled out for safety reasons.<\/p>\n
Angel Fierro Out of Cruz Fight<\/p>\n
\u201cAngel Fierro has been forced to withdraw from Saturday\u2019s rematch with Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz, sources told @ringmagazine. The 140-pound fight was scheduled for the Manny Pacquiao-Mario Barrios PPV undercard in Las Vegas. Cruz defeated Fierro in a firefight in February,\u201d Coppinger\u2019s message on X reads.<\/p>\n
And, in a follow-up with more details, Coppinger wrote the following:<\/p>\n
\u201cFierro encountered health issues during his weight cut. [I\u2019m] told Fierro is headed to a hospital for observation after he encountered health issues with his weight cut. Wishing him a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
While this news is, of course, a bad blow for the fans who were very much looking forward to another slugfest between Cruz and Fierro, no fight is worth the health and well-being of one of the fighters. If Fierro had nothing left after trying to make 140 pounds, then of course, he should not have been allowed to fight.<\/p>\n
Fierro Moving to Welterweight?<\/p>\n
It seems it\u2019s time for Fierro to make the move up to the welterweight division. As Coppinger says, let\u2019s wish Fierro a full recovery, while we also hope he can add some real excitement to the 147-pound division, as he engages in some big fights there if he does indeed make the move up.<\/p>\n
Cruz will no doubt be gutted that his fight is off, and at this extremely late stage, no replacement foe will be found for Cruz. One wouldn\u2019t have thought so, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what is a bad blow to tomorrow night\u2019s undercard action on the Mario Barrios-Manny Pacquiao fight in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}