Abner Mares Boxing News

Boxing Channel Full Coverage Mares-Agbeko II & Margarito-Cotto II The Boxing Channel will provide coverage of two major fight cards on opposite ends of the United States on Saturday, December 3.

Star-Studding Boxing Celebs Set To Attend Saturday Night Including Oscar de la Hoya, Don King, Current & Former World Champions Robert Guerrero, Israel Vazquez, Daniel Ponce De Leon & Michael Katsidis, Plus Top Contenders Vicente Escobedo, Sharif Bogere & More! LOS ANGELES, December 1 – A world championship doubleheader featuring the IBF and World Boxing [...]

By Allen Fox: IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) feels that he’s got it under control in terms of his terrible habit of tagging his opponents low left and right in his fights, and he’s not going to stop throwing to the body even if it means he’ll likely lose points this Saturday [...]

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 29, 2011) – With just four days until their respective world championship showdowns on Saturday, Dec. 3, live on SHOWTIME® (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., all four fighters preparing for the World Championship Doubleheader participated in an open media workout at Westside Boxing [...]

By Jason Kim: This Saturday night IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) will be fighting a rematch against Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) in a rematch of their controversial fight last August, which ended with Mares winning by a 12 round decision despite nailing Agbeko with low blows all through the fight without [...]

ABNER MARES TO GET THE TELEFUTURA “CLASSICS” TREATMENT ON NOVEMBER 25 SEE THE BANTAMWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION ON HIS ROAD TO THE TOP AGAINST YONNHY PEREZ AND JONATHAN ARIAS ON SPECIAL EDITION OF TELEFUTURA’S “SÓLO BOXEO TECATE” LOS ANGELES, November 22 – In August of this year, 2004 Mexican Olympian Abner Mares struck gold as a [...]

NEW YORK (Nov. 16, 2011) – International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares, World Boxing Association (WBA), Bantamweight Super Champion Anselmo Moreno, Two-Division World Champion Vic “The Raging Bull’’ Darchinyan and Hall of Fame Promoter Don King held a media conference call on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Oct. 15, 2011) – International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares and former two-time IBF Bantamweight World Champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko were the principals at a widely attended press conference Saturday to officially announce their highly anticipated rematch set for Saturday, Dec. 3, at [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is furious with Golden Boy Promotions and its CEO Richard Schaefer. The reason for Arum’s ire is that Golden Boy has decided to go ahead with the International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight championship rematch between current title holder Abner Mares and Joseph Agbeko on December [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum reportedly wasn’t pleased with learning the news that the rematch between Joseph Agbeko vs. Abner Mares II fight on Showtime will run opposite of Arum’s pay per view card featuring World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito on December 3rd on HBO.

By Dan Ambrose: On December 3rd, Showtime will be televising a rematch between IBF and WBC Silver Bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) vs. Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) at the Honda center in Anaheim, California. Also on the card, WBA Super World bantamweight champion Anselmo Moreno (31-1-1, 11 KO’s) will be defending his [...]

By Eric Thomas: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, the promoter for IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s), says that he has no problems with Mares fighting Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) again in a rematch and that he’s open to it.

By Eric Thomas: The International Boxing Federation ruled on Tuesday that newly crowned IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares has by December 14th to give a rematch to Joseph Agbeko, who Mares defeated by a controversial 12 round majority decision last Saturday night in Showtime’s bantamweight tourney.

By Eric Thomas: IBF and WBC Silver bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) got some really news today from the International Boxing Federation, who is ordering the 25-year-old Mares to give an immediate rematch with former IBF champion Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) by December 14th, according to Boxing Talk. Mares and Agbeko aren’t [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Every time there is poor officiating in a major boxing match it drives another nail in the coffin of boxing in the United States. Boxing in the USA has had problems in the past with bad decisions and that trend continues to get in the way of a rebirth in [...]

As the boxing world continues to debate one of the year’s most controversial matches … Fight fans can judge for themselves!

By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya, the promoter of IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s), believes that Mares deserved to get the decision over Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Eric Thomas: It looks as if IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares won’t be getting a big money unification fight against WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire after his promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank pretty much shot that idea down because of the circumstances surrounding Mares’s win over Joseph Agbeko last Saturday night.

By Peter Wells: Yet again there is controversy surrounding a world title fight, this time it’s not the judges but a combination of referee Russell Mora and fighter Abner Mares.

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) says he’s okay with fighting IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) in a unification bout, according to the latest boxing news from Philboxing.com. If the fight can be worked out between Donaire’s Top Rank promoter and Mares’ promoters from Golden Boy Promotions, [...]

By Eric Thomas: Newly crowned IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) says he’s open to giving Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) a rematch after beating him by a 12 round majority decision in a low-blow plagued fight last night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mares wants to [...]

LAS VEGAS (Aug. 13, 2011) – In a great action fight Saturday marred by puzzling officiating by the referee that left fans at The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, those watching on SHOWTIME® and the telecast team themselves totally perplexed, Abner Mares won The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All and the International Boxing Federation [...]

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) put on a clinic in throwing beautiful low blows on Saturday night in defeating International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) by a very controversial 12 round majority decision on Saturday night in the finals of [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In tonight’s Showtime bantamweight tournament between Abner Mares vs. Joseph Agbeko, you’ve got young against an older fighter. Mares is fighting really well right now and I think he’s going to be hard for Agbeko to beat.

After weighing 118.4 pounds on his first try and then, immediately thereafter, 118.2 (fully stripped with Ghanaian flag in front of him), Joseph King Kong Agbeko returned to the digital scale (with shirt on) approximately 45 minutes later and made 118 for his International Boxing Federation (IBF) title defense tomorrow/Saturday, Aug. 13, against undefeated Abner [...]

By Peter Wells: Photo credit: Casino/Showtime – At the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Joseph Agbeko and Abner Mares will contest to become the number one Bantamweight in the world. It is almost guaranteed to be a thrilling contest, which will be broadcast in the US on Showtime.

SHO Sports News Brief: Al Bernstein Reports from The Bantamweight Tournament Final Press Conference LIVE on SHOWTIME® Saturday, Aug. 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast)

LAS VEGAS (Aug. 11, 2011) – You beat the best, you are the best and this Saturday, Aug. 13, the best bantamweight in the world will emerge when finalists Joseph King Kong Agbeko and Abner Mares clash in The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West [...]

The Boxing Channel, the only all video internet channel completely devoted to boxing coverage, will again provide wall to wall coverage of an important fight, when Hall of Fame Boxing Broadcaster Al Bernstein serves as lead reporter for the August 13th fight between Joseph Agbeko and Abner Mares.

LAS VEGAS (Aug. 10, 2011) – In an eagerly awaited matchup this Saturday, Aug. 13, Joseph King Kong Agbeko will defend his International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight title against unbeaten World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares in The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on [...]