By his own admission, Omar Juarez’ previous ring performance could be summarized as ‘win today, look good the next time.’
Fortunately for the unbeaten prospect, he didn’t have to wait very long for the next time.
The rising junior welterweight from Brownsville, Texas enjoys the quickest ring turnaround of his two-year career. Just four weeks after going through the motions in a six-round win over Willie Shaw at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Juarez (8-0, 4KOs) returns to the venue and the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Fox circuit in a scheduled eight round bout versus Dakota Linger (Sunday, Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET).
“I had a feeling about this fight, maybe a few days after my last one,” Juarez told BoxingScene.com. “They told me to get ready because I was gonna get right back in there. I had already scheduled a sparring trip to Las Vegas and I was able to get some work with [unbeaten former 130-pound titlist Gervonta] Tank Davis and a few others.
“That experience was incredible. Tank is on another level. There has been no downtime...as soon as I left Vegas. I headed straight back to San Antonio where I continued my camp.”
Juarez’s bout comes in supporting capacity to a secondary welterweight title fight between Miami’s Yordenis Ugas (25-4, 12KOs) and Abel Ramos (26-3-2, 20KOs) of Casa Grande, Arizona. His win over Shaw came on the August 8 edition of PBC on Fox topped by another welterweight bout, when Minneapolis’ Jamal James claimed an “Interim” title following a 12-round win over Puerto Rico’s Thomas Dulorme.
Suffice to say, the main event from that night was far more memorable than anything that came of Juarez’s televised bout. The fight was a valuable learning experience for the 21-year old, who stuck to his game plan and fought his fight even at the expense of not providing anything worthy of making the highlight reel.
“In my last fight against Willie Shaw, it was hard to look impressive because he was running,” confesses Juarez. “I did my best to slow him down and I got the win.
“I’m hoping Dakota will engage more so we can give the fans an exciting fight. I’m always looking to throw a lot of power punches and that will never change. I’ll be sitting on my punches a lot more in this fight.”
Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
