Sergio Mora

Jermain Taylor defends IBF title against Sergio Mora on 2/6 in Biloxi, Miss

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mora1By Dan Ambrose: IBF 160lb champion Jermain Taylor (33-4, 20 KOs) will be defending his title against the aging fringe contender Sergio Mora (27-3-2, 9 KOs) on February 6th at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

This is an ideal first title defense for the 36-year-old Taylor, because Mora doesn’t have the kind of power that has traditionally given Taylor problems in the past. Taylor has suffered bad knockouts at the hands of Kelly Pavlik, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch. However, Taylor has always done good against fighters with little in the way of power, and he should be fine against Mora.

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Sergio Mora vs. Peter Quillin possible

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mora1By Allan Fox: Former WBC light middleweight champion Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora (25-3-2, 8 KO’s) has a chance of facing WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin (30-0, 22 KO’s) next, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN and Steve Kim. Quillin, 30, needs a well known opponent for his next title defense, and the #10 WBA Mora definitely serves that purpose given his vast experience during his 14-year pro career.

Quillin is coming off of a 10th round stoppage win over challenger Gabriel Rosado last October in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The fight was halted due to a cut that Rosado had suffered. However, Rosado was really taking the fight to Quillin at the time of the stoppage, and he had shaken Quillin up in the 9th round with some big shots.

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Mora decisions Proksa

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mora2By Jim Dower: Former WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (24-3-2, 7 KO’s) outclassed the hard hitting Polish fighter Grzegorz Proksa (29-3, 21 KO’s) in defeating him by a 10 round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Veteran’s Coliseum, in Jacksonville, Florida.

The final judges’ scores were 96-94, 96-94, and 98-92. Neither fighter looked good, but Mora did enough in the second half of the fight by landing the cleaner shots to get the win.

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Sergio Mora v Grzegorz Proksa: ESPN FNF Preview

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proksa333By Sevak Sarkisian: Former WBC JR. Middleweight champion Sergio Mora will make his return to the ring on June 28th against former European Middleweight Champion and world title challenger Grzegorz Proksa.

Many fans in America are very familiar with Mora given the fact that he was the winner of the contender tv show during the shows first season. He has also been fighting on ESPN for many years. Mora (23-3-2-7KO’s) possesses good boxing skills and has very good height and reach for a Jr. Middleweight/Middleweight fighter. He is a slick fighter with decent hand speed and moves around well in the ring. Even though Mora is of Mexican decent, he does not fight in the typical Mexican come forward style.

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Sergio Mora vs. Grzegorz Proksa on June 28th in Jacksonville, Florida

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proksa333By Allan Fox: Former WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio “Latin Snake” Mora (23-3-2, 7 KO’s) will be taking a dangerous fight this month against 28-year-old former EBU middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa (29-2, 21 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Veteran’s Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Mora has lost two out of his last three fights, both to Brian Vera. Mora badly needs a win over Proksa to try and get back into the thick of things in the middleweight division because he’s been out of the picture for a long time.

Proksa was beaten last September by WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin by a 5th round TKO. Proksa was able to land some hard shots on Golovkin, but he couldn’t take his own big punches in return and ended up getting dropped three times in the fight before it was halted in the 5th round.

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Sergio Mora: Golovkin has never faced anyone like me

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Image: Sergio Mora: Golovkin has never faced anyone like meBy Dan Ambrose: Light hitting former WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Mora (23-3-2, 7 KO’s) wants to get a title shot against WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KO’s) and he thinks he can take him down if given the opportunity.

Mora said “I know Gennady hasn’t lost as a professional, but he has never fought anyone on my level.”

Mora, 31, sounds like he really needs a title shot right about now. He’s lost three out of his last six fights and hasn’t beaten a world class opponent since his upset victory over an out of shape Vernon Forrest four years ago in June 2008. That’s a long time between important wins, and it’s cost Mora him his ranking in the top 15. Mora is no longer ranked in the top 15 by any of the sanctioning bodies and that makes a lot of sense. How can the sanctioning bodies have Mora ranked when he’s been beaten in two out of his last three fights.

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Vera looks good in beating Mora, don’t count on Pavlik fighting him

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By Dan Ambrose: Middleweight puncher Bryan Vera (18-5, 11 KO’s) showed why he was able to stop highly hyped middleweight contender Andy Lee in the 7th round three years ago in 2008 last night when he pounded out an impressive 10 round decision over former WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-2-2, 6 KO’s) at the Convention Center, in Fort Worth, Texas. Vera, 29, showed excellent power in his right hand and was able stay on top of Mora all night long and wear him down with heavy pressure.

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Mora vs. Vera tonight on ESPN

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By Jim Dower: Former WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio “Latin Snake” Mora (22-1-2, 6 KO’s) is taking on what could be a very dangerous fight for him when he faces the hard hitting Bryan Vera (17-5, 11 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on ESPN tonight at the Convention Center, in Forth Worth, Texas. Mora, 30, needs to win and look good so that he can make up for his last performance on network television when he spent too much time running and holding against Shane Mosley and had to settle for a disappointing 12 round draw in September 2010.

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Sergio Mora vs. Bryan Vera this Friday

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By Jim Dower: This Friday night, former World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-1-2, 6 KO’s) takes on an important opponent in the hard hitting Bryan Vera (17-5, 11 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on ESPN Friday Night Fights at the Convention Center, in Fort Worth, Texas.

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