Angulo vs Silva, In Perspective

On the undercard of Khan vs Molina, Alfredo Angulo took on unknown Jorge Silva. While it was a fan friendly fight the whole way through, it was not so good for Angulo. Silva has fought his whole career below 154lbs, starting his career at 135lbs. This was his first fight at 154, against hard punching Angulo. I was not expecting much so I did not even bother to post any predictions on the fight. Silva has been knocked out twice before and has fought virtually nobody of real note. To me this smelled of early knockout, however, we got a war. Whenever Silva threw, he pretty much landed, the problem was, he doesn't have the power to hurt Angulo, and Angulo's work rate was far higher most of the fight.

I know Angulo is coming off a long layoff and has only had one first round knockout prior to that long layoff, but Silva was tailor made for Angulo. He is smaller, has a suspect chin, and is not all that powerful. If Silva was a big puncher, I could not see how Angulo would have been able to stand up, he took several clean shots to the chin, and he has a good chin, but can obviously be hurt.

This fight was very telling to me, Angulo is clearly not the same fighter since being all but completely demolished in six rounds by James Kirkland. Silva was able to back Angulo up and was seemingly unfazed by most of Angulo's punches. While we may have seen the best of Angulo, he still should be fun to watch while he is around, but in perspective, he doesn't seem to be the same "perro" he was before.