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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (1508)	1/18/2001 2:37:34 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10489

A conversation with Fernando Vargas Main Events has announced that former IBF jr middleweight champion Fernando Vargas will be returning to the ring in an HBO fight on April 28. Fightnews.com checked in with the 23-year-old boxing superstar for an update a month-and-a-half after his classic bout against Felix Trinidad. Here's what Fernando had to say... On who his next opponent will be: "Hopefully [WBC champ] Javier Castillejo. Felix Trinidad won't give me a rematch." On the Trinidad fight: "I feel the reason he was able to beat me was that he didn't fight clean. When I had him down in the fourth, only a man knows what it feels like to get hit in the balls. I wanted to give up right there. I felt like throwing up. When I got back up I was so flat-footed. That and three other shots made me feel heavy-legged. LPS5 note: Fernando, I'm one of your supporters, but c'mon. Gimme a break. He had you down two or three times in the first round with blows far above the family jewels. "I'm not a dirty fighter. I don't consider the way he fought clean. I don't feel he beat me fair and square. Supposedly I hit him low, too. It wasn't even low and he made a soap opera about it. It was a grazing shot. It was nothing. And the referee calls it a low blow. "Honestly, if the referee was doing his job, he should have stopped it the third time and definitely disqualified Trinidad." On a possible rematch with Trinidad: "I want to fight Trinidad, but I know he doesn't want it. I'll fight him for free. It doesn't matter. I just want to know that I can beat him, fair and square. Not like the way he beat me. "I don't think he going to fight anyone right now where he'll make as much money as he would if he fights me in a rematch. I think it'll double or even triple the numbers we did this time. "Right now we're looking for that fight. That's our main objective. I feel he thinks he won't be able to beat me. Obviously he doesn't want it for nothing. So if not, we're going to go against Javier Castillejo." A final word: "I'm definitely going to be back. I look forward to stepping in the ring with whoever it is. Hopefully it will be Javier Castillejo because that's who I'm looking for."