The Hard Luck Road of Tigre, Welterweight Adrian Granados
Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Top 25 junior welterweight and welterweight Adrian ‘Tigre’ Granados of Woodland Hills, California, has a deceiving record of 20-8-2 with 14 knockouts and has only been stopped once in 30 professional contests. Originally fighting out of his native Chicago, Illinois, Granados has been involved with fighting some marquee names during his eleven-year career.
Early in his career, the rough tough Granados drew with Lanardo Tyner (a bout witnessed by this reporter) and ex-champion Kermit Cintron. After losing 10 round decisions to Felix Diaz and Brad Solomon, fighters with a combined 39-0 when he fought them, Granados looked done. After winning five fights in a row, Granados lost a 10 rounder to Adrian Broner and a 12 rounder to Shawn Porter, both world champions in their own right.
Granados would up in a no contest when 33-2-1 contender Javier Fortuna accidentally fell out of the ring in the fourth round of their contest. After getting knocked out in the seventh round against former world champion Danny Garcia, Granados lost a ten rounder to former world champion Robert Easter Jr. in October 2019.
Remember in boxing, it isn’t the quality of wins, it is the quality of the opponent. Granados has become, in a sense, the ‘name’ successor to Jesus Soto Karass and Demarcus ‘Chop Chop’ Corley, a gatekeeper at 140 and 147 pounds. Granados remains a world-class fighter, the measure of excellence contenders and champions must defeat to remain in the mix at 140 and 147 pounds. Granados’ biggest win to date was his eighth-round stoppage of 18-0 prospect Amir Imam in a November 2015 televised bout. Granados arrived at that point, but unfortunately remains 0-7-2 with one no-contest against all of the other world-class opponents in his career. Granados has been able to defeat lesser opponents, but remains unable to win the big opportunity bouts he has fought beside the Amir Imam upset
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