Sergio Jimenez
Mexican Knockout Artist
Bio
Sergio Jimenez is the Mexican super middleweight whose record does the talking: 17-1-1 with fifteen knockouts. Do the arithmetic. Fifteen stoppages in nineteen fights is not a fighter who goes to the cards.
He steps in as the co-feature on the San Diego bill after Jesus Ramos Jr fell ill and the interim WBC middleweight title fight was cancelled. Jimenez against unbeaten American Daniel Blancas now carries the middle of the card, and he weighed 166.4 lbs for it.
A knockout ratio like that usually means one of two things — either the opposition has been carefully chosen, or the man genuinely takes people out. The honest answer with Jimenez is somewhere in the middle, but the power itself is not in question. He hurts people.
The single loss and the draw on the record are the lines worth watching. They suggest a fighter who is dangerous early and more gettable if you survive the first half, which is exactly the fight Blancas will be trying to have.
Right then, this is what a short-notice replacement co-feature should look like: a puncher against a boxer, both with something real on the line.