“The friendly match with Falcao helped me learn a lot from him,” Dinh Hong Quan shared after 3 rounds of Sparring and his elder from Brazil. Quan added: “Falcao played in a more weight, the punches were also more powerful but I could still stand it.”
Esquiva Falcao, the opponent with Dinh Hong Quan at the boxing exchange event between the two continents is a superficial puncher. Falcao (Middleweight) on the Red Army (Lightweight) 2 class. In terms of class, Brazilian boxers are also completely superior to the defending champion of Asian IBF.
While playing amateur boxing, Falcao reached the 2012 London Olympic Games Falcao's achievement is 30 matches in his career, including 20 wins. That helped him reach very close to the chance of fighting the IBF championship.
Dinh Hong Quan shared after the match with Falcao
On the side of Dinh Hong Quan, 3 rounds of training with Falcao help Vietnamese boxers to accumulate more valuable experiences from a world -class opponent. The fight with Falcao helped Quan have an additional perspective on European and South American boxers if he wanted to target the goals further than the Asian IBF belt in the future.
Also on the sidelines of the boxing exchange event between the two continents, Dinh Hong Quan said he had a training plan towards the IBF belt protection match in December. Accordingly, Vietnamese boxers will come to the Philippines to practice at the furnace of “Pacman” Manny Pacquiao in a short time.