By Jim Dower: Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner (33-3, 24 KOs) will be taking a big career risk in facing former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (27-0-1, 19 KOs) on April 21 on Showtime Boxing, with former super featherweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis (19-0, 18 KOs) on the undercard against an opponent still to be determined. The fight card will be staged at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Allan Fox: Shawn Porter has some major concerns about whether 4-time world champion Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner (33-3, 24 KOs) can come back from his latest loss to Mikey Garcia at 140 to turn his career around to defeat Omar Figueroa Jr. (27-0-1, 19 KOs) and Amir Khan.
By Jim Dower: A fight between former world champions Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner and Omar Figueroa Jr. in the works for the first quarter of this year. Broner (33-3, 25 KOs) feels confident that he’s going to beat the former WBC lightweight champion Figueroa Jr. (27-0-1, 19 KOs) when that fight happens.
By Sean Jones: Adrien ‘The Problem” Broner and former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa Jr. could be facing each other in April or May of next year on Showtime, according to RingTV. Like Broner’s last fight, a lopsided 12 round decision loss to Mikey Garcia, it’ll be televised on Showtime.
By Dan Ambrose: A fight between unbeaten Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) and former WBC World lightweight champion Omar Figueroa Jr. (27-0-1, 19 KOs) is being talked about for January 27 in New York.
By Dan Ambrose: In a predictable move, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero retired from boxing on Monday following his 3rd round knockout loss to Omar Figueroa Jr. last Saturday night at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. If there was ever any doubt whether the 34-year-old Guerrero (33-6-1, 18 KOs) should hang up his gloves, it was erased with him getting dropped 5 times by Figueroa Jr. in his 3rd round knockout loss.
By Dan Ambrose: In a battle of ring rusty welterweights, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-5-1, 18 KOs) weighed in at 146.6 pounds on Friday for his 10 round fight against former WBC World lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (26-0-1, 18 KOs) on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. Figueroa weighed in at 146.4 lbs.
By Scott Gilfoid: Sky Sports commentator Jim Watt really liked what he saw from the 32-year-old Ricky Burns (37-5-1, 11 KOs) last Saturday in his 12 round unanimous decision loss to former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (25-0-1, 18 KOs) at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas, USA.
Watt thinks Burns has some more big fights left in him despite his loss, and he further thinks that Burns can fight in the light welterweight division.
By Scott Gilfoid: British lightweight Ricky Burns (37-5-1, 11 KOs) ruined his chance of winning tonight against Omar Figueroa (25-0-1, 18 KOs) by holding too frequently and winding up getting docked twice by the referee in losing by a 12 round unanimous decision on Premier Boxing Champions on CBS from the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
Burns, 32, complained after the fight that Figueroa had held as much as he did, and that was the reason why he held him as much as he did. But it’s pretty clear that Burns couldn’t handle the fire power of from Figueroa and needed to resort to clinching for him to survive the full 12 rounds.
By Scott Gilfoid: Barry McGuigan has his doubts whether former two division world champion Ricky Burns (37-4-1, 11 KOs) will be able to pull off an upset tonight in his fight at light welterweight against the young 25-year-old former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (24-0-1, 18 KOs) on CBS on Premier Boxing Champions at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas, USA.
Burns, 32, is the wrong age, McGuigan says, to be facing a young fighter like Figueroa. It’s the wrong country for the fight as well because Burns will be traveling outside of the friendly confines of Scotland to face Figueroa in his home state of Texas in the United States.