Brandon Figueroa: record, next fight and profile →
If you took one glance at Brandon Figueroa, the last thing he looks like is a gym warrior. From a boxing perspective, he’s one of the best around, but physically, the 26-year-old looks as though he’s never lifted a single weight in his life.
Stephen Fulton was up against it. Naoya Inoue seemed like a force of nature on paper, one that was quickly arriving in the super bantamweight division. The moment he walked through those doors at 122 pounds, however, Fulton barricaded his path. His WBC and WBO titles were proudly draped over his shoulders and his undefeated record made the Philly native believe he was essentially untouchable.
Time might be on the side of 23-year-old Luis Nunez but the highly-ranked featherweight contender believes that his championship moment will soon arrive.
ONTARIO, California – Rey Vargas got a close look Saturday night at Brandon Figueroa’s ability to wear down an opponent with persistent pressure. Now that Figueroa has beaten Mark Magsayo, the pressure is on Vargas to accept a title defense against Figueroa next.
Featherweight has seen a lot of shake-ups in the last year or so. Gary Russell Jr. lost, Emanuel Navarrete left, and a new trio of titlists (Rey Vargas, Luis Lopez, and Mauricio Lara) were crowned. Vargas got there by way of Mark Magsayo, the man who upset Russell, and if Brandon Figueroa is ultimately to be crowned with the WBC’s diadem in the division, his road too will have crossed with Magsayo.
ONTARIO, California – Back-to-back losses in featherweight title fights and a draining struggle to get down to 126 pounds last week have convinced Mark Magsayo that it’s time for him to enter the junior lightweight division. Magsayo made his intentions known while he met with a small group of reporters in his locker room following his 12-round, unanimous-decision defeat to Brandon Figueroa on Saturday night at Toyota Arena.
ONTARIO, California – Mark Magsayo and his handlers aren’t the only ones who think his fight against Brandon Figueroa was much closer than the three judges scored it. Figueroa acknowledged during his post-fight press conference Saturday night that their 12 rounds of action were more
ONTARIO, California – Mark Magsayo couldn’t believe it when referee Thomas Taylor took a point from him for holding and hitting Brandon Figueroa during the eighth round Saturday night. A dismayed Magsayo called Taylor’s second deduction for the same infraction in the 11th round “crazy” during a post-
ONTARIO, California – Mark Magsayo and his promotional representative expressed outrage in the immediate aftermath of his lopsided points loss to Brandon Figueroa on Saturday night.
In a thrilling contest between two former world champions desperate to return to world title glory, Brandon “The Heartbreaker” Figueroa improved round-by-round to win a unanimous decision over Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo, capturing the vacant Interim WBC Featherweight Title live on Showtime from Toyota Arena in Ontario, California.