Jesus Cuellar: record, next fight and profile →
Jesus Cuellar Interview - LOS ANGELES - Featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar and former three-division world champion Abner Mares went face-to-face for the first time Thursday as they hosted media roundtables in Los Angeles ahead of their showdown on Saturday, June 25 showdown live on CBS from Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
LOS ANGELES - Featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar and former three-division world champion Abner Mares went face-to-face for the first time Thursday as they hosted media roundtables in Los Angeles ahead of their showdown on Saturday, June 25 showdown live on CBS from Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Triple world champion Fernando 'Kochulito' Montiel is not very happy with the news of Abner Mares challenging Argentine slugger Jesus Cuellar for the 'regular' featherweight title of World Boxing Association.
On Saturday night, former three division world champion Abner Mares (29-2-1, 15KOs) was scheduled to face Fernando Montiel in a Mexican war as part of a welterweight collision between Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter.
It’s been a slow year in general for the boxing world, as fans have patiently waited – perhaps to a fault – waiting for something to finally happen. The upcoming spring/early summer schedule is as strong an indication as any that Showtime is doing its part to shake up the status quo.
Coming off his fifth round stoppage of Kiko Martinez this past weekend, WBA featherweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18KOs) is looking to go big game hunting.
WBA 'regular' featherweight champion Jesus Cuellar (28-1, 21KOs) is hoping to finalize settle the score with Leo Santa Cruz, who holds the WBA 'super' title at 126-pounds.
BoxingScene.com posted a story on Saturday night regarding the possibility of a rematch between former champions Abner Mares and Jhonny Gonzalez on a March date. There are ongoing discussions between Gonzalez's promoter Osvaldo Kuchle and Mares' manager, Al Haymon.
WBA "regular" featherweight champion Jesus Cuellar (28-1, 21 KOs) is hoping for a major fight when he returns in 2016. The Argentinean puncher started off 2015 by knocking out former champion Vic Darchinyan in June at StubHub Center in Carson, California. He was back in action earlier this month with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jonathan Oquendo at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
WBA featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar (28-1, 21KOs) was awarded the Olimpia de Plata for the best national boxer 2015 at a party held by the Circle of Sports Journalists. Cuellar closes out an excellent 2015, in which he was elevated to the position of full featherweight champion of the World Boxing Association.