(Photo credit: Suzanne Teresa/Premier Boxing Champions) By Dan Ambrose: A heavy looking former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (26-0-1, 18 KOs) outworked former WBC 135lb champion Antonio DeMarco (36-6-1, 23 KOs) in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision to keep his unbeaten record alive on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the AT&T Center, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The final judges’ scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 115-112.
Figueroa threw 1092 punches and landed 414 of them. However, DeMarco landed the harder and cleaner landing shots, and he dominated the last three rounds with his big power shots.