Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-12-10, good performance by both boxers: Abner Mares vs Jesus Cuellar gets three stars.The Wba Fw champion Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar entered this fight with a professional record of 28-1-0 (21 KOs=75%) while his opponent, the former world champion in three different weight classes Abner Mares, has a boxing record of 29-2-1 (15 knockouts). Both boxers are not ranked as they haven’t fought for more than one year: Cuellar fought twice in 2015 beating Vic Darchinyan (=Cuellar vs Darchinyan) and Jonathan Oquendo (=Cuellar vs Oquendo) while Mares defeated Arturo Santos Reyes
(=Mares vs Reyes) but then he lost to Leo Santa Cruz (=Santa Cruz vs Mares). ‘El Jinete’ Cuellar vs Mares is valid for the WBA World featherweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2016-12-10
Where: USC Galen Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Division: featherweight (126 lbs, 57.2 kg)
Title: WBA World featherweight title
Cuellar’s previous fight: Jesus Cuellar vs Jonathan Oquendo
Mares’ previous fight: Leo Santa Cruz vs Abner Mares
Mares’ next fight: Abner Mares vs Andres Gutierrez
Cuellar’s next fight: Gervonta Davis vs Jesus Cuellar
Video: (Free embeddable video hosted on Facebook and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
Official video
A full of action fight with an interchange of number of punches from both boxers well above the average for this category. Technically was a little bit poor. Abnes was more accurate which allow him to take the lead but was grabbing Cuellar far too much during the whole fight.
The knock down called in round 11th was not clear to me since when Abner applied the punch, mainly looks like a push, Cuellar was angled backward so it forced him to go the canvas.
a punch is a pushing of the fist.. how was that not a Knock down?? It’s no different than the Flash Knock Down Mikey Garcia (who was sitting ring side) received from Rocky Martinez in the early rounds of their fight. Mares catches cuellar off balance and bam lands one.
eltrespies: Sorry but I disagree with your punch’s description. A punch is really “a strike with the fist”. So strike and push are not synonymous. However, I watched the fight again and I’m now pretty sure that it was a wrong call from the referee since the right glove hit the Cuellar’s right shoulder forcing him to fall down (like being pushed) because Cuellar was leaning slightly backward when received the impact.
Farhoods scorecard was pathetic