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KERMIT CINTRON
KNOWN ALIASES: The Killer, The Frog, Superdiva
LAST SEEN: Making an odd, yet hilarious exit in his fight with Paul Williams in May, diving through the ropes and onto the floor before ultimately being carried out on a stretcher.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION: When Kermit Cintron dove out of the ring (or slipped, depending who you ask), I had thought that this was the end of him as a prime-time fighter. There have been more mental breakdowns in the ring for Cintron than victories over the past year, and I wouldn't put it past the networks to consider him a liability. Against Antonio Margarito, he cried. Against Sergio Martinez, he cried. Against Williams, he dove out of the ring...and subsequently cried later. Cintron is tall, talented, and strong, but he just hasn't built the mental fortitude that makes great fighters. But still, he deserves the chance.
Felix Sturm reached out to Cintron for a Middleweight title shot, but lowballed him in the process. Vanes Martirosyan engaged Cintron in a Twitter fight, but refused to commit to fight him. And Top Rank had no interest in matching Miguel Cotto up against him this winter. It's a matter of time until we see Cintron again, and I hope that, if we do, he brings in Teddy Atlas with him to give him the mental tools he needs to be successful.
CAREER STATUS: Alive and...*sniff*...well, but a bit under the weather.