Abner Mares
Abner Mares ( 2010)
Abner Mares Martínez ( born November 28, 1985 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican professional boxer, former IBF world champion bantamweight and former WBC world champion in the super bantamweight, and former WBC Featherweight Champion.
Amateur career
Abner Mares began at the age of seven years with the sport of boxing and denied his Amateurboxkarriere bantamweight. Already in 2002 he won the gold medal at the 2nd Cadet World Championships in Hungary, where he defeated Kazakhstan in the final Aschat Schakipbekow. In December of the same year, he also won the 19th Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. He had prevailed against Jonathan Batista from the Dominican Republic, Juan López of Puerto Rico and Yonnhy Pérez from Colombia.
In August 2003, he won the silver medal at the 14th Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic, where he among other things, again victories against Juan López and Yonnhy Pérez reach. Only in the final he was defeated Guillermo Rigondeaux from Cuba against. In June 2004 he fought nor the silver medal at the 13th Junior World Championships in South Korea. He had beaten Jonathan Ruiz from Spain, Zsolt Hodosi from Hungary, Turbat Enschtalwan from Mongolia and Elschan Ismailov from Azerbaijan, before he was defeated by Aibek Abdimomunow from Kyrgyzstan.
In August 2004 he participated in the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Athens in part, but in the first fight where he lost against controversial Bedak Zsolt from Hungary ( 27:36 ). He finished his amateur career with 112 victories in 120 battles, 84 of them prematurely.
More tournament results (selection)
- July 2001: 1st place at the 6th International Junior Olympic Tournament in the U.S., winning, among others against Sergio Mendez from Mexico and Daniel Herdman from England
- August 2002: 1st place at the 4th Jose Cheo Aponte Tournament in Puerto Rico, defeating Tyson Cave of Canada, Jonathan Vidal from Puerto Rico and Juan López of Puerto Rico
- June 2003: 3rd place in the bantamweight title at the 24th Acropolis Cup in Greece, beating Madi Scholakow from Kazakhstan, semi-final defeat against Afanasi Poskaschin from Russia
Professional career
He began his professional career in 2005 in the United States, his promoter Golden Boy Promotions of Oscar de la Hoya. His coach is Beristáin Ignacio, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. His Prodebüt he won on 6 January 2005 at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson, Arizona, by TKO in the second round against Luis Malave from Puerto Rico ( Record: 8 wins - 5 losses ). By mid-2007, he won 13 consecutive fights, including 8 prematurely. Besides a number of construction enemies like Omar Adorno ( 14-5 ), Wilmer Rodriguez (8-0 ) and Robert Allanic ( 16-2), he also achieved a premature victory against Angel Antonio Priolo ( 30-5 ) from Colombia, former Latin American - and North American champion, who had boxed around the interime WBC world.
On September 7, 2007, he was allowed to the North American championship boxing association of the WBO Bantamweight ( NABO ) and won the title against Isidro García ( 24-3 ) early because this gave up the fight after the sixth round. He then defended the title by unanimous decision against Damian Marchiano ( 14-2 ) and by TKO in the second round against Diosdado Gabi ( 30-3 ). The NABO title was finally withdrawn from him, because he did not compete against other challengers of the Association, but was preparing for a world title fight. To this end, he beat Jonathan " Diamante " Arias (15-1 ), Jonathan " El Explosivo " Perez ( 14-5 ), the Dominican Carlos Fulgencio ( 11-2 ) and the Colombian Felipe Almanza ( 17-15 ).
On 22 May 2010 he finally punched in Los Angeles for the IBF world championship against Yonnhy Perez ( 20-0 ), whom he had already beaten in amateur matches. The fight was scored a draw after the full twelve rounds (once 115:113 for Mares, twice 114:114 ), which Pérez titleholder remained. For Mares won already in his next fight on December 11, 2010 in Tacoma, Washington, for the world title of the IBO and WBC silver bantamweight title. He defeated while the Armenians Vakhtang Dartschinjan ( 35-2 ) in a 2:1 vote by points ( 113:112, 115:111 and 111:115 ). The fight was quite balanced, both boxers suffered in combat during a rainfall.
Meanwhile Yonnhy Pérez had lost his IBF title to Joseph Agbeko ( 28-2 ) in Las Vegas denied a title defense against Abner Mares on August 13, 2011. Mares had achieved the title winner in the first round at the bottom and was in the eleventh another precipitation before he was declared after twelve rounds the winner on points ( 113:113, 115:111 twice ). In the rematch on December 3, 2011 in Anaheim, California, Mares eventually won by unanimous decision (three times 118:110 ) and moved shortly thereafter to the super bantamweight.
He punched on April 21, 2012 in El Paso, Texas, for the WBC World Championship against Puerto ricaner Eric Morel ( 46-2 ), which was led by Ring Magazine at number 5 in the world rankings. Mares, who was listed as 13:1 outsider, but won the fight by unanimous decision ( 120:107, 119:109 twice ). In his first title defense on November 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, he pushed against Anselmo Moreno of Panama ( 33-1 ), who was also changed after ten title defenses of his WBA world bantamweight to super bantamweight. Mares won the fight by unanimous decision and had his opponent in the fifth round on the ground.
Mares put the world title down the beginning of 2013, in order to ascend to the featherweight. There he defeated on May 4, 2013 Daniel Ponce de Leon ( 44-4 ) by TKO in the ninth round and thus won the WBC World Championship.
On August 24, 2013, he lost by whacked in the first round against Jhonny Gonzalez ( 54-8 ).