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By Thomas Gerbasi - It can’t be easy for a boxer knowing that at 24 years old, the two essential pieces of how he makes his living will not just give him pain, but may just give out on him altogether.
Omar Figueroa doesn’t shy away from the subject though. He doesn’t say woe is me, he doesn’t wish he was given a better set of hands, ones that allow him to ply his trade with the effortlessness he has shown glimpses of in the past. He accepts his lot and he fights, and every day that those hands work the way they’re supposed to, it’s a good day.
This week, days removed from his Saturday bout against mandatory challenger Daniel Estrada, the hands of the WBC lightweight champion are good.
“They feel a lot better,” the power puncher from Weslaco, Texas said, but when asked if he worries about them not feeling better after the first shots are fired this weekend in Carson, California, he is blunt with his assessment. [Click Here To Read More]
Omar Figueroa doesn’t shy away from the subject though. He doesn’t say woe is me, he doesn’t wish he was given a better set of hands, ones that allow him to ply his trade with the effortlessness he has shown glimpses of in the past. He accepts his lot and he fights, and every day that those hands work the way they’re supposed to, it’s a good day.
This week, days removed from his Saturday bout against mandatory challenger Daniel Estrada, the hands of the WBC lightweight champion are good.
“They feel a lot better,” the power puncher from Weslaco, Texas said, but when asked if he worries about them not feeling better after the first shots are fired this weekend in Carson, California, he is blunt with his assessment. [Click Here To Read More]
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