"Baby Joe" Taimanglo is set to take on Alex Castro in a rematch on September 19 at the Field House. The Juggernaut is coming off a win in their last meeting and looks to duplicate his performance on fight night. Baby Joe won the stand up part of the fight and was able to get out of a rear naked choke to get dominate position on Alex where he eventually finished off the fight.

Taimanglo said, "Well, my last fight with Alex will be one to remember I had went off island to American Top Team and increased my training with a lot of technique and a lot of cardio. I just did what I had to do that night and um Alex trained hard for that fight so I saw a lot of strength in his stand up so I had to mix it up and take him to the ground so I could wear him down and loosen up the top of his body so he wouldn't be able to throw as fast after the first round. So when the 2nd and 3rd round came I already knew I would be able to out endurance him and work a lot of technique and stamina and of course finish the fight with a submission."

Baby Joe says that his training camp has been good and has prepared him enough to come out victorious the second time around. Doing 2 a days has helped him with his cardio and stamina in case the fight does go 3 rounds. He said, "I've been doing a lot of great things man, a lot of great training partners so far and we're doing two-a-days. In the morning we're training, sparring and a lot of drills and basically our circuit training is in the morning and in the evening time a lot of technique still doing our stairs and cardio. I'm really preparing for this fight and I feel great, I think this is the best I have ever felt and I don't feel like I'm going to be stopped on the 19th."

Baby Joe and Alex have shown knock out power through out their fight career and come fight night Saturday the 19th rumors have people talking about a stand up fight fans are looking forward to. "Everyone keeps talking about his stand up improving so I'm going to put that to the test and give him what my stand up is about and man I can take a hard punch and I can give one back, too," said Taimanglo.

by Dave Delgado