Alfredo Angulo may be deported, career in shambles
Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KOs), the crowd pleasing knockout artist from Mexico, may have to permanently hang up the gloves in the United States.
Michael Marley reports that “Perro” faces being deported back to Mexico by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau of the federal government after recently determined an illegal immigrant.
The news comes as a shocker to many who hail Angulo as the next junior middleweight champion.
Reportedly HBO’s legal department advised Angulo’s promoter Gary Shaw of the news, and that as a result they could not showcase him any future broadcasting dates. In the past Angulo had been an HBO sensation
due to his high knockout rate and ability to consistently provide exciting fights.
Upon hearing the news, Bob Arum of Top Rank was animated.
“Nobody is going to touch this guy. Nobody is interested now because of the huge legal problem. He picked the wrong time to be an illegal immigrant in our country, that's for sure," Arum told reporter
Michael Marley.
Marley reported that Angulo allegedly entered the U.S. illegally, was deported, and then returned secretly a second time. The vital information was concealed from Shaw, who has done much in developing
Angulo’s career, and manager Mike Criscio.
All the same one wonders how promoters and managers could have missed a piece of information that would have been clarified merely by looking at an American passport.
In light of the news Criscio and Shaw got in touch with boxing’s chief immigration lawyer, Frank Ronzio to see what could be done about the situation. Marley reports it doesn’t look good.
Neither Shaw nor Criscio could be reach for comments.
"Angulo never told anybody about it," a source said. "He was at ringside at the Sergio Mora-Shane Mosley fight in L.A., acting like he doesn't have a care in the world. He is as brazen outside the ring
as he is in it when that opening bell rings."
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