
Video: Abner Mares is Hungry To Capture Ponce's Gold
Ryan Burton catches up with two division world champion Abner Mares to discuss the upcoming fight with WBC featherweight king Daniel Ponce De Leon.
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Ryan Burton catches up with two division world champion Abner Mares to discuss the upcoming fight with WBC featherweight king Daniel Ponce De Leon.

Ryan Burton catches the final press conference to the Showtime Pay-Per-View undercard to Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero. Abner Mares moves up to the featherweight division to challenge WBC champion Daniel Ponce De Leon. J'Leon Love battles Gabe Rosado in a middleweight clash, and former champion Leo Santa Cruz moves up the super bantamweight division to face veteran Alexander Munoz.

Ryan Burton catches the Daniel Ponce De Leon's open workout for the upcoming defense of the WBC featherweight title against Abner Mares.

Ryan Burton catches up with WBC featherweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon to discuss his fight with undefeated stablemate Abner Mares.

Robinson Castellanos, the World Boxing Council's silver champion at 126-pounds, is heading to Las Vegas to watch full champion Daniel Ponce De Leon defend the title against Abner Mares on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He will be accompanied by his promoter Dr. Fausto Daniel Garcia of Boxeo de Gala. Castellanos recently traveled to Panama and won a final eliminator against Celestino Caballero, who handed Ponce De Leon his first career loss. The record of Castellanos, 18-9 with 11KOs, is very deceiving. He is much better than his record suggests and the last time has clearly beaten was a fifth round TKO at the hands of an 11-0 Mikey Garcia in 2008. Since that defeat, Castellanos has gone 14-2 and those two defeats were controversial split decisions.

Abner Mares was more surprised than disappointed the night Nonito Donaire lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux. Donaire’s defeat cost Mares money because it lessened the magnitude of a potential bout between them, but Mares remains open to facing Donaire or Rigondeaux after fighting Mexico’s Daniel Ponce De Leon for the WBC featherweight title Saturday night in Las Vegas (Showtime Pay-Per-View; 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT; $69.99).

LOS ANGELES - With the Super Welterweight World Championship Unification fight between Canelo Alvarez and Austin Trout coming up this weekend on Saturday, April 20 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, followed by the Unified Super Lightweight World Championship between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday, April 27 and the culmination of the back-to-back-to-back championship fight weekends, "MAY DAY: Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero" on Saturday, May 4 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, predictions are swirling around on the internet, in newspapers and on television from boxing scribes and fans doing their best to make their calls on what will happen in the upcoming fights.

Ernest Gabion catches up with former two division world champon Abner Mares to discuss his upcoming fight with WBC featherweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon. Also present at the open workout, Ponce De Leon and former bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz. Mares vs. Ponce De Leon, plus Santa Cruz, will appear on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero Showtime pay-per-view.

Ernest Gabion catches up with WBC featherweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon to discuss his upcoming fight with two-division world champion Abner Mares on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero undercard at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Jay Nady will be the third man in the ring for the May 4 featherweight title fight at the MGM Grand between Daniel Ponce De Leon and Abner Mares. Nady was selected at the April 8 meeting of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. The other candidates to be the third man in the ring for that bout were Kenny Bayless, Vic Drakulich and Tony Weeks. The judges, meanwhile, will be Richard Houck and Robert Hoyle of Nevada, and Michael Pernick of Florida.