Omar Figueroa trainer calls out Errol Spence Jr.

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By Jaime Ortega: Joel Diaz, Omar Figueroa’s trainer — ex-trainer of now retired Timothy Bradley — stated in an interview “If you believe in what you have, you don’t have to worry, and since I know Omar, bring anyone in the welterweight division…I don’t give a shit if it is Errol Spence…anybody.”

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Omar Figueroa Training Camp Quotes & Photo

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South Texas’s Omar “El Panterita” Figueroa, a former lightweight world champion, heads into training camp on a balmy 118-degree day in Indio, CA, home to his trainer Joel Diaz and his new boxing home-base since January. Figueroa re-enters the boxing ring on Saturday, July 15 when he takes on former multiple-division world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero in the 147-pound main event of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT in the first boxing event at the newly-renovated NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

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Weights: Figueroa-DeMarco & Arreola-Kauffman

Image: Weights: Figueroa-DeMarco & Arreola-Kauffman(Photo credit: Suzanne Teresa/Premier Boxing Champions) By Dan Ambrose: Light welterweights Omar Figueroa Jr. (25-0-1, 18 KOs) and Antonio DeMarco (31-5-1, 23 KOs) both came in well over the 140lb limit during Friday’s weigh-in for their fight on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the AT&T Center, in San Antonio, Texas.

Figueroa weighed in a whopping 151lbs, which puts him 11 pounds over the light welterweight limit. DeMarco wasn’t much better in coming in at 149lbs. For the 25-year-old Figueroa, this is his second straight fight that he’s coming in over the 140lb limit.

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