THE FEROCIOUS ONE RETURNS II

By Michael Amakor

Finally after a sixteen month self imposed hiatus Ex IBF, IBA and WBA Light Middleweight Champion "Ferocious" Fernando Vargas returned to the ring against former IBO Middleweight Champion Raymond "Hallelujah"Jovala at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, in Texas on March 26, 2004.

No one really knows why he took this much time away from the spotlight, but on closer reflection he needed time off to recover after brutal knockout losses to Trinidad and De La Hoya in 2000 and 2002 respectively. It has been confirmed that he had been fighting for years with severe pains from a swollen disc in his lower back. While in exile he hired some of the best strength trainers in the business to help him during the healing process and to prepare him for his eventual return to the ring.

All these tactics paid off as he pounded out a convincing ten round unanimous decision over the ineffectively aggressive Raymond Joval.

Either due to ring rust or a vow to control naked displays of aggression, Vargas fought a cautious but dominant fight and did not jump in for the kill even after he had wobbled Joval in the third round. His shots were accurate though, and by the middle rounds he began to assert himself even going on target practice in the eight round carefully picking his shots to the body and connecting with hard lunging straight right hands to the head to win that round. He switched to left hooks to win the ninth round according to HBO's scorecard and managed to withstand the desperate onslaught from the physically bigger and determined Joval trying to make a rally in the tenth and final round.

A haunted looking, but victorious Fernando scored himself a three and a half on a scale of ten when questioned about his performance by HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant. He also very calmly spoke about his wish fights for the future that shockingly lacked the fury of his past bombasts to include a fight against newly crowned  WBA champion Javier Castillejo that he claims will, position him to challenge Felix Trinidad or Oscar De La Hoya down the road sometime in the future.

The World of Boxing waits with Baited Breath

THE FEROCIOUS ONE RETURNS I

By Michael Amakor

Finally after a sixteen month self imposed hiatuse Ex IBF, IBA and WBA Light Middleweight Champion Ferocious Fernando Vargas return to the ring against former IBO Middleweight Champion Raymond "Hallelujah"Jovala at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, in Texas on March 26, 2004.

No one really knows why he took this much time but on closer reflection he needed time off to rest after brutal knockout losses to Trinidad and De La Hoya in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

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