Can Duarte Handle Madueno On 10 Days’ Notice?

Miguel Madueno (31-3 28 KOs) will be the opponent for light welterweight Oscar Duarte (28-2-1, 22 KOs) to step in as the sub after Regis Prograis suffered a shoulder injury on February 15th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

10 Day’s Notice

Golden Boy Promotions are gambling that Duarte can make a transition from the training he’s done for WBA and WBC 140-lb champion Prograis to taking on Madueno on 10 days notice. That could be a mistake on their part.

This is not the type of opponent any fighter should take without a full training camp, but you have to respect the tough Mexican Duarte to go through with it. This fight will show what he’s about and give fans at home an exciting battle. This is a much better opponent than Duarte’s original match against the 36-year-old Prograis, who hasn’t won in two years.

Madueno gave Keyshawn Davis pure trouble in a life-and-death struggle for the Top Rank-promoted fighter on July 6th last year, forcing him to turn the fight into a WWE wrestling match to survive the tough Mexican volume puncher.

Davis looked like he was having a nervous breakdown in the ring, trying to deal with Madueno’s pressure and output. Keyshawn looked like he went full-on professional wrestling move, throwing the rulebook out the window.

The Davis Scare

The Norfolk, Virginia native Davis should have been docked points left & right, but he got the A-side treatment and used those tactics all night against Madueno.

I lost track of how many wrestling moves Keyshawn used in that fight that should have led to point deductions. At some point, it looked like he was going to use a suplex against Madueno, and I just knew that would finally make the ref pull the plug on the fight.

That was the weirdest boxing match I’ve ever seen, but it gave me a glimpse of Keyshawn and how dangerous he perceived Madueno. He’d gone into the contest trying to intimidate Madueno by putting his fist against his chin during the face-off at the press conference and disrespecting him to try to gain an edge.