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 title against former two division world champion Vic Darchinyan (31-3-1, 27 KO’s) in a fight that will be pure joy to watch.

Although the Agbeko-Mares II fight is slated to be the main event, I think Darchinyan vs. Moreno fight is the far better bout on the card. You can make a case that Mares shouldn’t even be a champion, as he fouled Darchinyan like mad in his controversial 12 round split decision win in December 2010.

Mares lost two points for low blows in that fight, but I saw at least five or six other occasions where he should have lost points as well. The guy was low blow happy in that fight. But it was Mares’ recent 12 round majority decision win over Agbeko last August where Mares really outdid himself with throwing low blows.

It was as if Agbeko had his trunks down below his knees because Mares was teeing off all night long with shots below the belt, and the referee Russell Mora seemed paralyzed with his inability to put a stop to it by taking away points. I thought Mares should have been disqualified by the 5th round, yet he continued to foul all night long.

It was pretty sad, but was worse was the decision that was given to Mares. I thought Agbeko had done more than enough to get the win, yet Mares’ hand was raised at the end showing how hard it is to beat this former Olympian. It might take something really special for Abgeko – or anyone for that matter – to get a decision against him because the judges seem to love him for some reason.

Like I said, I think Mares should already have two losses on his record, which makes it not interesting to me to see this fight other than to monitor how many low blows Mares can get away with before he’s finally has points taken away. I suspect he’ll lose points this time, because no one is crazy enough to just allow Mares to blast away at the front side of Agbeko. Mares will lose points, but I think he’ll also get away with a lot of low blows again before he’s finally docked a point. The guy is considered a future star, and those guys get away with a lot before they get penalized.