Boxing 🥊| Failed Boxer: Jorge "Maromero" Páez Jr.
One of the most charismatic boxers of the late 20th century was
undoubtedly the Mexican Jorge “Maromero” Páez. A boxer that when some "undocumented" speaks of a boring boxer, comes to mind for being the opposite, along with Héctor "Macho" Camacho, his simple entrance to the ring was a spectacle, his performances were many times more entertaining than the combats of other boxers, to which was added being a two-time world champion at 126 lbs and an eccentric outside the ring, refusing to enter the Hall of Fame for https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXEEasXVaeZsANcc6KVSrvwjh9f9YSxgBX67iStqWp5us/download (1).jpeg
it idolatry.
His son Jorge "Maromerito" Páez Jr., began his sports career largely using his last name, at just over 17 years old, weighing 125 lbs, Maromerito's weight gains and losses were constant in his career, leaving palpable his lack of capacity for sacrifice, because the weight is undoubtedly an indication of the training that a boxer does and how he takes it, a boxer with saw spikes in his weight cannot go very far, because in boxing you should never give away not a gram to your rivals.
So with everything he begins his career with 13 (8KO) consecutive victories, until losing in the 14th against a day laborer, such as the Dominican Ramón Guevara (weighing Jorge 137 lbs), it is not strange to suffer a stumble at the beginning of the career of a boxer, there are not a few boxers who have become world champions losing their first professional fight, a paradigmatic case is the great Bernard Hopkins, but "The Alien" stayed more than 15 years at 160 lbs, a clear example of his discipline.
It would take more than 30 fights [26-3-1-1NC] to achieve a quality victory, against a crepuscular José Luis Castillo, a 12-round points win for a WBC Intermediate title at 147 lbs (a very elevated for Páez Jr.), avenging his father's defeat in 1999. Even so, he did not have big real fights and that he had the support of the Box Azteca chain, that's why they would look for a confrontation more mediatic than sports, against one of the sons of Julio César Chavez, since neither his style nor his combats were attractive.
Omar Chavez was undefeated in 28 fights, where he had not fought against absolutely no one to stand out. He also had an obvious physical advantage, since the fight agreed at 151 lbs, showed us a Maromerito far from dry, as opposed to his rival. The fight was close but Páez Jr. won for PTS, with which he took the opportunity to stretch the gum with a rematch months later, this time for a title of those invented for the occasion by the WBC, again Páez Jr. wins again. this time for you. To review the strange interest in fights in Mexico between inflated boxers, whose only merit is being a relative of a quality fighter.
Taking advantage of the headwind, he was looking for a confrontation against another veteran in decline, as was the former world champion Vivian Harris. The fight agreed at 148 lbs, began with the dominance of "Maromerito", who until the sixth had a good fight, but his poor preparation took its toll and Vivian Harris "stole" the fight in the last rounds, which led to to a bitter discussion between Julio César Chavez and the commentators of Box Azteca, because Julio saw the Brooklyn resident as the fair winner. Despite the defeat and with 46 fights behind him, an opportunity for the 140 lbs WBA title against the undefeated José Benavidez Jr. comes to him. Despite the fact that Jorge Páez Jr. for the first time in years appears in form, he is defeated by TKO in 12 rounds, giving the feeling of being several rungs below the elite of that weight.
His last decent fight (to say the least) was against a completely finished Antonio Margarito, whom he knocked down, but still they gave him a loser and that he was again competing at an excessive weight (154 lbs), then his career has been totally descending, including a loss against another famous by his last name (Ramón Álvarez), having a negative record of 5/10 in his last 15 fights, for a total of 59 fights [42-14-2-1], leaving the feeling that his lack of discipline to maintain a stable weight, marked his career, a career that has had support and sponsors, which in another head would have been better used. At the end of Jorge "Maromerito" Páez Jr.'s career, his worst enemy was enchiladas and tacos, not the fists of his rivals.
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