Abner Mares Dominates, Stays on Path to Title Shot

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By Cliff Rold - An eye injury kept 23-year old Mexican Bantamweight Abner Mares (19-0, 12 KO) out of the ring for almost a year. So far it hasn’t cost him anything but time. Making his second start of 2009, and since the injury, Mares scored a brutal body-shot knockout in the sixth round against the Dominican Republic’s Carlos Fulgencio (11-3-1, 7 KO) on Thursday night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.

It was Fulgencio’s third stoppage defeat in five contests. Mares entered the contest rated #8 by the WBC, #3 by the IBF, and #4 by the WBO, jeopardizing none of those positions with his performance. Mares entered the bout less than a pound over the division limit at 118 ¾ with Fulgencio tipping the scales at 119 ¾. [details]

[two_guns]

Mares vs donaire or penalosa ,anybody on?

[supRa]

any highlights?!?!

[MaYaN_SuN]

That was the first time I've seen Mares fight a guy that big, and he handled that **** like cake. I'd like to see him active for a few more fights just so he can further look and feel like a regular in there, even though he looked as accurate as anyone could be. That body work and defense was beautiful as well, I can only remember that kid landing two punches on him. But yeah, he had great rhythm and didn't rush anything at all. He made that **** look soo easy. And I don't if it's just me, but he looks pretty solid physically now. (no ****)

[lopez36]

i wonder how well he'll continue to do without berinstain in his corner

[LilGizmo562]

Damn missed this fight :[...I hope he stays active and gets a title shot soon.

[black.ink]

Perhaps a title shot should be mentioned in his next 3 fights, but not right now. He slowly needs to take on top 10 contenders leading to a title elimination perhaps.

Maybe a bout with Yonnhy Perez could come off as he is rated 1 place above him in 2 organisations......or someone with experience ala Z Gorres?

[SAN D13GO VILLAN]

Damn missed this fight :[...I hope he stays active and gets a title shot soon.

I'm pretty sure vs will show the fight again.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Recap of the fight:

From round one on until the stoppage he was landing some hard rights over the top. Followed up by a RELENTLESS attack to the body.

I am not one to knee jerk and start calling people legends or comparing them to legends but his style is very similar to JCC, no bull****.

He's actually more slick that JCC but damn, he goes HARD to the body. He wasn't basically touched by his opponent who had a good record and was supposedly a good amateur in Puertorico. He was also taller and bigger than Mares but that didn't stop him from coming forward at all during the night.

He ended the fight with a very hard body shot to the liver. Dropped his opponent and he turned on his belly and never got up.

I was very impressed and it's the sharpest I have ever seen him and this is off a 9 month lay off.

[alphaqfrankie]

thanks guys. Glad to see you guys like Mares. I felt there are still some things he needs to work on but over all we are very happy on how he looked. I'm not sure he will be on that Sept. 19th card anymore. But we will keep him busy!


hmmmm maybe under the Vazquez comeback card on October 10th! We will see...