Abner Mares

(Photo credit: Casino/Showtime) By Gerardo Granados: Next August 29 at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, California; two former champions will engage in a fight that could decide the future for both, one will stay wondering what went wrong meanwhile the other will move on to bigger things better fights and purses.

WBC super-bantam belt holder Leo Santa Cruz will have his most difficult fight in the past two years, once he was perceived as potentially a future boxing star but after hand pick three opponents in a row and have looked poor against club fighter Jose Cayetano it’s hard to believe he is living his best moment right now.

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By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night on August 29th, former three division world champion Abner Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs) will be facing former two division champion Leo Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs) in a 12 round fight on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The Mares vs. Santa Cruz fight is a good one, but it’s one that would have been much better had the fight taken place in 2013 when the two of them were still being matched against quality opposition. Mares has been on the rebuilding mode with his career ever since he was knocked out in one round by Jhonny Gonzalez in August 2013.

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(Photo credit: Craig Bennett) By Dan Ambrose: Leo Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs) believes his fight against former three division world champion Abner Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs) next month on August 29th is a fight that the boxing public is demanding right now despite the fight being a non-title fight in a division that neither fighter appears to be equipped to compete in.

The division is just too good right now for the likes of Santa Cruz and Mares, and about the best the two fighters can hope for is a nice payday when they face each other at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

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By Dan Ambrose: Former three division world champ Abner Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs) and unbeaten but totally untested WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs) could be facing each other next month on August 29th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The fighters have verbally agreed to the fight, according to the LA Times. However, they still need to put pen to paper to sign the contracts. Until they’ve signed you have to look at the fight as tentative.

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