Boxing exhibition fever continued Friday with the return of “The Baby-faced Assassin” Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KOs) against all-action brawler Jesus Soto-Karass (29-13-4, 18 KOs) at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena in Pico Rivera, California. Barrera and Soto-Karass boxed a six round exhibition with two-minute rounds and no headgear. After the fight, Barrera’s archrival Erik Morales entered the ring. They have an exhibition next month in Dallas.
Unbeaten lightweight Angel Rodriguez (9-0, 6 KOs) scored a third round KO over Bergman Aguilar (15-8-1, 5 KOs). Rodriguez dropped Aguilar four times.
Super welterweights Oleg Zubenko (3-1-1, 0 KOs) and Diego Padilla (1-2-1, 0 KOs) battled to a four round draw. Scores were 40-36 Padilla, 38-38 2x.
Sounds like absolutely nothing noteworthy happened here. The only thing reported here was: “Barrera and Soto-Karass boxed a six round exhibition with two-minute rounds and no headgear.”
The clowns are long gone , the circus goes on
So this was an exhibition tune-up for Barrera?
Barrera has always been one of my favorite fighters, and it’s good to see him in exhibition. No expectations, just an appreciation seeing him put on the gloves again, and performing in the ring with the skills he has left.
Yeah, how about for floyd Mayweather – logan paul fight? did you have any expectations for that fight?
Why are you talking about that fight? Ugh, enough with whining bitches like you.
Who expected anything of a retired 44 year old, feather fisted, purely defensive, brittle handed, 5’8 145 pound boxer vs a 6’2 195 pound athletic, 20 something year old amateur/YouTuber?
Who was expecting anything of that fight? No one. It was what it was, let it go. You idiots love taking about the Paul brothers for people who constantly bring them up in convos that have nothing to do with them.
Oh and let’s stop acting like Muhammad Ali wasn’t fighting in exhibitions in the 70s and 80s. This isn’t anything new. Shut up already.
One thing for sure holds water…Time changes everyone. Those guys look totally different in the pic than from their primes. Their boxing eras were great!
Wow. Old people age? Get the dick out of here!?!?!?! Really!?!?!!!?
The Barrera Morales days for boxing is long gone and boxing is in a very bad place right now. I have never seen a time where so many elite boxers avoid each other and we are left with exhibitions of boxers from the past.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! Start a separate website for exhibitions please. (Probably maymake more on that site celebrity/exhibition.)
The corrupt NABE has done this to boxing. The only relevance to this once great sport now are these sideshows, unfortunately.
How about a fight breakdown? How did Barrera look? How did Soto-Karass look? Too much to ask?