Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-12-12, outstanding performance by both boxers with some nice and tough toe-to-toe exchanges: Omar Figueroa vs Antonio DeMarco is very close to get four stars!The undefeated former Wbc lightweight champion Omar Figueroa Jr entered this fight with a professional record of 25-0-1 (18 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.7 super welterweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Erislandy Lara). He has fought once in 2015 beating Ricky Burns (=Figueroa vs Burns).
His opponent, Antonio DeMarco, has an official boxing record of 31-5-1 (23 knockouts) and he entered as the No.40 in the same weight class but he comes off two consecutive losses: against Jessie Vargas (=Vargas vs DeMarco) and Rances Barthelemy (=Barthelemy vs DeMarco). ‘Panterita’ Figueroa vs DeMarco is the main event of the evening. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-12-12
Where: AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Division: light middleweight (154 lbs, 69.9 kg)
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Figueroa’s previous fight: Omar Figueroa vs Ricky Burns
DeMarco’s previous fight: Rances Barthelemy vs Antonio DeMarco
Figueroa’s next fight: Omar Figueroa Jr vs Robert Guerrero
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I like figueroa, he is a young warrior, but i don’t understand why he has moved up from the lightweight division to the the super welterweight!!! the jump was too big! please go back to the lightweight or light welterweight
I had this great fight 117-111, I gave only 3 rounds to DeMarco. Most of the fight happened in the ropes with de Marco having his back to them, and it didn’t work for him. I too like figueroa, I didn’t know he had hopped in weight that much, thanks for the info daniel :)
The higher you go in weight, the higher the numbers in your bank account go. Boxing fans like you and me may see, clear as day, that a certain fighter is much better suited fighting at a lower weight, but casual fight fans outnumber the rest.. And PPV numbers reflect more weight = more money.
In this fight, knowing nothing about either fighter, I was rooting for DeMarco, since he was the clear underdog early on. However he made it so hard to root for him as the fight progressed, with him taking so many punches, just sitting on the ropes taking punches.. Taking soooo many punches. He had flashes.. he definitely could’ve knocked out Figueroa. He had more power than Figueroa… I think that was obvious.. Which is why it was so damn frustrating rooting for him! If he had just thrown a few more in some of those flurries, ESPECIALLY round 7.. I mean my God, he had that fight won in round 7 if he had dug a little deeper.
He just didn’t do enough. My overall thoughts…Figueroa’s power is either seriously lacking up at welterweight, or DeMarco has an absolute granite chin.
True mostly, but bantamweight Naseem Hamed made a lot of dough fighting at 126 :)
You are right, and I actually want to renege part of what I said about that, because I think most fighters go up in weight simply because it gets harder and harder to continue the process of making weight at whichever class they are fighting in, which is usually 10 to 15 pounds under the weight they walk around that..some fighters like Brandon Rios have had to lose over 20 pounds in the days before the fight! Which carries over into the fight, manifesting in the form of fatigue.
That’s why I think GGG is such a beast, because he fights at his natural weight. Part of the reason why Canelo is so dominant…He’s usually around 170 on fight night. I side with Max Kellerman on the subject.
this second answer is probably the main reason of his new weight because if you move up in weight class just for the money it’s not wise….i mean you make money just if you can win and be one of top10 in the new division.
The example of Prince Naseem Hamed is right but also Floyd Mayweather or now in the mma Conor McGregor….so I think that if you want to make more moneey you have to build a character around your name, maybe just acting….so in this way a lot of people will love you or will hate you but also the people that hate you (like for floyd) will watch your fight because they want to see you losing.
Anyway I usually prefer natural and clean fighter like Golovkin or Fedor Emelianenko or also Manny Pacquiao, fighter that don’t speak a lot but give all on the ring.
About the weight I hope one day the fighters will make the weigh-in just 5 minutes before the entrance on the ring so everybody will fight on their natural weight
I agree with most of your comment danielsan, but about the weight, can you imagine the fiasco if a fighter doesn’t make the weight in the scenario you are describing? Fans in the arena totally pissed, television networks having to deal with a cancelled main event, promoters in money limbo.
I think it is not feasible, although it would be fair, I understand what you mean of course by having two guys at the same weight making the fight more fair.
yes i know that but for example the boxers that will now make the weight will lose fans, money and credibility because they will show they are not professional. And i think that if you fight at your natural weight it’s very difficult not to make weight.
For example in world title fights or important events, they could make a weigh-in check just 3or4 days before the fight, so everybody knows if the boxer is close to the weight limit but then they will do the final and official weigh-in 5 minutes before the fight
that is reasonable. Gatti used to gain like 15 pounds in a day. Good idea man with a weigh in 3 or 4 days away. :)
Entretenido combate entre dos boxeadores,que siempre estan relegados a un segundo plano.Fallo justo.Saludos.
Excellent fight with an incredible interchange of punches which really deserves 4 starts. Omar put in place the right plan for this match fighting from inside with superb efficiency against a very tough and good seasoned boxer. If Omar don’t do that Antonio would be the winner now since he looks like to be the stronger puncher in the ring with the benefit of his reach advantage. Omar has an incredible heart, an iron chin, and he is able to change stance as required to control the fight. I believe, that Omar doesn’t have punching power at all and all his knock outs are just because the volume of punches his able to connect during the whole fight which may have finally destroyed/eroded all his previous opponents. Round 11th was the best. Omar fully deserves this victory and Antonio deserves also all our full consideration because he put a hell of the fight and a very very close one.