Mihtar
- Cantu Feud Leading to Fight? There appears to be some bad blood between Michigan fighters Pete Cantu and Brian Mihtar that goes beyond the usual pre-fight hype that promoters use to drive ticket sales. The two men are scheduled to face-off on what is expected to be the second pro boxing show of the new year. The Cantu-Mihtar grudge match is one of seven fights currently on the January 29 card at Detroit’s Masonic Temple. Mihtar and Cantu took to the ring in Royal Oak earlier this month to announce the upcoming fight and tempers flared. “(We had a) little exchange there,” Mihtar told Sportssummary. “(Cantu) has been calling me out for awhile,” something the Dearborn fighter said he was unaware of until contacted by a reporter for the Oakland Press who had recently interviewed Cantu. “I called him out,” Cantu said in a telephone interview in the days before Christmas, adding that he originally wanted to fight Alexis Hloros but “they wanted none of it.” The bad blood appears not to involve Brian Mihtar as much as it does his controversial brother and spokesman Ray Mihtar. Cantu claims that his teenage son and a nephew were subjected to some vulgarity directed toward them from Ray as Team Mihtar made their entrance at a June 2008 show at historic Fort Wayne. Both
men will have to adjust their weight to make the 156 pound catch
weight. Mihtar weighed in at 168 and 171 pounds for his last two
fights and Cantu weighed 147 and 144 pounds in his last two. |