News - Marco Antonio Barrera

The WBC has notified the camps of world junior lightweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera and WBC mandatory contender Manny Pacquiao to begin negotiations for a worltd title bout. If no agreement is reached, the WBC will conduct a purse bid on January 12, 2007 in Mexico City. Pacquiao defeated Barrera once before, but Barrera went on to claim two of the four major titles at 130-pounds. In the past, Barrera has opted to give read more ...

That was not only the sentiment of the Rocky Juarez camp, but a hefty portion of the 10,421 fight fans who showed up at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas hoping to see another war between Juarez and Barrera. The crowd booed consistently during the 12 round rematch that had Barrera retaining his WBC 130-pound belt by—depending on your point-of-view—by either outboxing and putting on a clinic, or running and holding read more ...

This time WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera (63-4, 42 KOs) made it decisive as he dominated Rocky Juarez (25-3, 18 KOs) over twelve rounds in a workmanlike performance on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The rematch of what was an exciting fight in May turned out to be a tactical fight from round one with both fighters working at a deliberate pace. Rocky had promised to be more read more ...

Barrios update from today's weigh-in: While the fight between now-former WBO Jr. Lightweight Champion Jorge Barrios and undefeated Joan Guzman will go on, only the undefeated Dominican will have a chance to walk away with the belt. Because he could not make the 130-pound limit today, Barrios has now been stripped of his belt. The two camps have completed negotiations, with Barrios having to settle the matter of extra poundage for an undisclosed read more ...

WBC super featherweight Marco Antonio Barrera stated today in Los Angeles that he took Saturday's rematch with Rocky Juarez at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas because because he doesn't like controversy. "I don't like it that he said the commission helped me because we fought in LA," stated Barrera. "He said that he won the fight and now it's different. Now the fight is in Las Vegas. There's no excuses, no nothing." read more ...

Boxingtalk continues to bring you the biggest names in boxing. Marco Antonio Barrera sat down with Boxingtalk this evening, and talked about his fight against the very dangerous Rocky Juarez. Barrera lets the boxing world know that he would very much like to give Rocky Juarez a rematch, and makes it clear that Rocky Juarez has earned the respect that he deserves. Barrera also comments on Manny Pacquiao, but at the same time, is looking forward read more ...

A mistake in the addition of the scorecards resulted in Saturday's Marco Antonio Barrera-Rocky Juarez being announced to the Staples Center crowd and HBO television viewership as a draw. However, the scorecards were later retabulated and it was discovered that the actual scores were 115-114, 115-113 Barrera, 115-114 Juarez, so Barrera actually wins a split decision. WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera and WBO jr read more ...

Marco Antonio Barrera has no doubts that his WBC superfeather title defense against Ricardo “Rocky” Juárez on Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles will be "Mexican style battle." At Thursday's pre-fight press conference, Barrera (61-4, 42 KOs) praised Juarez saying he is "a very good boxer, with a hard punch." Juarez (25-1, 18 KOs)promised to do his best and "show the public who Rocky Juarez is." After, Barrera told read more ...

Oscar De la Hoya, speaking to Cebu reporters from his training camp in Puerto Rico yesterday, announced that he has reserved a November 4 date for Marco Antonio Barrera to see action at the MGM Grand, and if Manny Pacquiao is interested, all he needs to do is pick up the phone. "I respect Manny Pacquiao as a great warrior. Marco Barrera also respects Manny as a great warrior. But on November 4, Marco is available read more ...

- Marco you were cruising right along with training camp getting prepared for Jesus Chavez, and boom, he gets hurt and now you are back to the drawing board. MAB - Well at first Brad it didn't hit me all that well, and then all of the sudden it hit me that it was a big blow. We were 3 weeks into abandoning camp, and heading for the fight. We understand this is a sport of contact read more ...