Samuel Carmona: “I hold the world title, with both hands I can achieve it”

The boxer Samuel Carmonawho is recovering from a broken right hand sustained in the flyweight world title bout, He is determined to ask for a “rematch” against the Mexican Julio César ‘Rey’ Martínez, because he believes that he will soon get it.

“I showed everyone that I can be world champion”, “I wiped it, with both hands I would have done it”, said the boxer in his first public action in his city, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, after the fight. last December 4 in Arizona (USA).

The Canarian boxer lost on points against his opponent after suffering an injury to the thumb of his right hand in the second roundalthough he stayed in the ring for 12 rounds of the fight, valid for the WBC world flyweight title.

The injury sustained in the championship successfully intervened, he told EFE at the closing of the boxing workshop that he teaches for the Up2U initiative, a project sponsored by Juvenile Judge Reyes Martel to promote the integration and personal development of young people in a situation of social vulnerability or subject to judicial measures.

However, he specified that he has “one month to return to training” and that he is “focused on recovery”.

He revealed that at the championship he had mixed feelings, “happy and sad, because with both hands I did it“.

Despite the fracture, he stayed in the fight “and we even won some of the last rounds with one hand.”

He declared himself “certain” that “great events will come” and “determined to be world champion”.

Samuel Carmona dedicated his first public action in the Canary Islands after the fight with Rey Martínez to transfer his example in life to boys who, like him, are forced to overcome problems. “If I can do it, you can do it too,” the bronze medal winner at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics told them.