Abner Mares Wows Crowd at Club Nokia!

By David A. Avila

LOS ANGELES-Abner Mares returned to form and put on a show for his friends, fans and a television audience. It was all Abner in a near-perfect performance in dominating Carlos Fulgencio of the Dominican Republic on Thursday.

“I could hear the crowd and it made me fight stronger,” said Mares.

No evidence of eye surgery was evident as Mares showcased his smooth punching and near flawless defense in knocking out the taller power-punching Fulgencio in front of more than 2,000 at Club Nokia.

Now fighting out of Indio, the former Mexican Olympian showed why many call him a virtual fighting machine in the 118-pound weight division. He finds openings, defends counters, slips attacks and makes it look like breathing in and breathing out. It was a Picasso at his best.

Mares attacked from the beginning against the four-inch taller Fulgencio with speedy combinations to the head and body and slipped almost everything in return. If there were computerized stats it might have shown a ridiculous disparity between the two fights. But that was the first round.

“He took a lot of punches,” Mares said of the Dominican. “I liked that he was taller.”

In the second round, after tasting an abundance of power shots, Fulgencio decided to unload some heavy bombs too. It didn’t matter. Mares slipped, countered and returned bombs with the same accuracy as the first round.

For six rounds Mares seemed to know what punches were coming and when to fire back. If Fulgencio hesitated, Mares didn’t.


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thanks man. there are still somethings he needs to work on. But I thought he looked really good overall. Going some rounds did him good!

 

haha. trust me... I've seen worse. I will agree he's not the best but it was a good fight to get Mares some work before stepping it up.

 

Ya, we always tell our fighters. It don't matter how good you are there is always room for improvement.

There is somethings I notice, but you have to take in consideration that was his first fight with Joel Diaz.

But I think you can see the potential in Mares! If not, your blind. j/k

 

Thanks man. Well time will tell. I'm sure we are going to be hearing that a lot throughout Abner career. But we have move forward. There is not much you can do when your trainer leaves you.