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It was a wild night of boxing at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. They expected to see a war in the main event, but instead got a boxing exhibition as the undercard bouts stole the show.
The first fight was "too close to call," but the rematch was not even close. Marco Antonio Barrera (63-4, 42 KOs) retained his WBC super featherweight title by jabbing Rocky Juarez (25-3, 18 KOs) on route to an easy unanimous twelve round decision. The scores were a lot closer than the fight appeared to be. One judge had it right with a score of 117-111, but the two scores of 115-113 were puzzling.
From the start of the fight, Barrera controlled the fight with his jab and never let Juarez get a rhythm going throughout their encounter.
Juarez's eye began to swell bad from the hard jabs of Barrera. There were moments in the fight where Juarez would land a decent punch to the head or body, but he never threw combinations and always landed one punch at a time.
The crowd was unhappy as they rained plenty of boos on both fighters for the lack of action, but it was clearly Juarez who did not push the issue. Even when Barrera would stop punching and take off a round, there was no aggression on the part of Juarez.
The corner of Juarez urged him round after round to step it up, and unfortunately he disregarded their instructions.
The old veteran in Barrera fought a slow paced boxing match, not because of his overall edge in his level of experience, but because Juarez let him. [details]
The first fight was "too close to call," but the rematch was not even close. Marco Antonio Barrera (63-4, 42 KOs) retained his WBC super featherweight title by jabbing Rocky Juarez (25-3, 18 KOs) on route to an easy unanimous twelve round decision. The scores were a lot closer than the fight appeared to be. One judge had it right with a score of 117-111, but the two scores of 115-113 were puzzling.
From the start of the fight, Barrera controlled the fight with his jab and never let Juarez get a rhythm going throughout their encounter.
Juarez's eye began to swell bad from the hard jabs of Barrera. There were moments in the fight where Juarez would land a decent punch to the head or body, but he never threw combinations and always landed one punch at a time.
The crowd was unhappy as they rained plenty of boos on both fighters for the lack of action, but it was clearly Juarez who did not push the issue. Even when Barrera would stop punching and take off a round, there was no aggression on the part of Juarez.
The corner of Juarez urged him round after round to step it up, and unfortunately he disregarded their instructions.
The old veteran in Barrera fought a slow paced boxing match, not because of his overall edge in his level of experience, but because Juarez let him. [details]
Gran Campeon
He was completely taken out of his gameplan and guess what? There's no plan B. 
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