Live Stream: Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares Final Presser at 3:30 p.m. ET

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The long-awaited showdown between undefeated two-division world champion Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs) and former three-division world champion Abner Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs) is almost here. With their final press conference taking place tomorrow, Thursday, August 27, a live stream will be made available via satellite and online from Club Nokia at L.A. Live in Los Angeles so fans across the country can hear from the fighters and see them face-off.

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Santa Cruz vs. Mares: Are they fighting to regain respect?

mares#12(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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Abner Mares vs. Leo Santa Cruz this Saturday on PBC on ESPN

santacruz (8)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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Alfredo Angulo to fight on August 29th on Santa Cruz vs. Mares card

angulo78 - CopyBy Dan Ambrose: 33-year-old former world title challenger Alfredo Angulo (23-5, 19 KOs) has been added to the Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares card on August 29th on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Angulo will be fighting a still to be determined opponent in the 168lb division.

Angulo has lost 3 out of his last 4 fights, and has looked incredibly bad. Angulo won his last fight against Delray Raines by a 5th round knockout last June at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

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Santa Cruz: Abner Mares is the toughest opponent I’ve faced

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(Photo credit: Suzanne Teresa/Premier Boxing Champions) By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Leo Santa Cruz (30-0-1, 17 KOs) is ready for his important fight against former three division world champion Abner Mares (29-1-1, 15 KOs) this month on August 29th on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

Santa Cruz sees this fight as potentially the toughest of his career and by far the most important. He’s moving up in weight from the safety net of the 122lb division to fight at 126, and there are a lot of unknowns for him.

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Santa Cruz: The fans want the Santa-Cruz-Mares fight

CruzvsMares_web33(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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Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares possible for August 29th at Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA

mares#1By 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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