Marco Antonio Barrera - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born June 17, 1974 in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

) is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

professional boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight

Super Bantamweight

Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

(122 lb), WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

(126 lb), and WBC & IBF super featherweight

Super Featherweight

Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

champion. He ranks # 43 on ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

's 50 Greatest Boxers Of All Time.

Amateur career

As an amateur, Barrera had a record of 104-4 and was a five-time Mexican national champion.
His Winning streak was 56-0 before losing his first amateur contest.

Early years at Super Flyweight

Barrera made his professional debut at 15 when he defeated Leonilo Embuestro Jr. of Philippines by a knockout in round two on November 22, 1989. The victory marked the beginning of a 43 fight win streak.

In 1990, Barrera had seven fights, including his first rise in quality opposition, when he defeated veteran Iván Salazar, by a decision in eight rounds. In 1991, he had seven more fights, defeating boxers Abel Hinojosa, Javier Díaz and others.

Barrera began 1992 by winning his first professional title, defeating Justino Suárez by a decision in twelve rounds to win the Mexican national Super Flyweight

Super Flyweight

Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...

championship. He retained the title three times before the end of the year which helped improved his ranking in the Super Flyweight division. He defeated Abner Barajas by a decision in ten rounds, and Angel Rosario by a knockout in six rounds.

In 1993, Barrera had six bouts, winning each. He defeated Salazar in a rematch and retained his title against Noe Santillana and among others.

By 1994, Barrera was attending University to become a lawyer and also continued his boxing career. On April 13, he defeated future champion Carlos Salazar

Carlos Salazar (boxer)

Carlos Gabriel Salazar is a retired boxer from Argentina, who competed in the light flyweight division . He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he was stopped in the first round by Puerto Rico's Rafael Ramos.-References:* -External links:...

by a ten round decision in Argentina. He also defeated former world champion Eddie Cook before the end of the year.

Super Bantamweight and retirement

Barrera began 1995 by fighting for a world title. On March 31, he became the WBO super bantamweight

Super Bantamweight

Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

champion by defeating Puerto Rican boxer Daniel Cobrita Jiménez

Daniel Jiménez

Daniel Jiménez Román is a former Puerto Rican bantamweight boxer. He is best known for having won the WBO title as a pro.-Pro:...

by a decision in twelve rounds at Anaheim, California. By this time, many boxing journalist were calling Barrera "Mexico's next Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

."

He made four defenses before the year was over. On June 2, 1995, he defeated future champion Frank Toledo

Frank Toledo

Frank Toledo is an American boxer who held the International Boxing Federation featherweight championship in 2001....

via second round knock out. Barrera knocked Toledo down twice before the fight was stopped.

On July 15, 1995, Barrera scored a first round knockout win over Maui Díaz (27-1). In his next bout, he won a twelve round unanimous decision over future champion Agapito Sánchez

Agapito Sanchez

Agapito Sánchez was a boxer from the Dominican Republic, nicknamed "El Ciclón", in the Super Bantamweight weight class. He won 37 of his 50 fights, 18 by knockout.-Pro career:...

.

On February 6, 1996, he fought on the first installment of HBO Boxing

HBO Boxing

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades....

's spin-off series "HBO Boxing After Dark". In one of the fights of the year, Barrera stopped Kennedy McKinney

Kennedy McKinney

Kennedy McKinney is a former professional boxer, who won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics...

in 12 rounds, knocking him down five times whilst suffering one knockdown himself.

After the McKinney fight, he defeated former WBO champion Jesse Benavides

Jesse Benavides

Jesse Benavides is an American former professional boxer.- Amateur career :Benavides was the 1981 National AAU light flyweight champion and 1982 National Golden Gloves flyweight champion....

by third round knockout. On July 14, 1996, he feated another former champion, Orlando Fernandez, by seventh round TKO.

On November 22, 1996, he suffered his first career loss and lost his title to American boxer Junior Jones

Junior Jones

Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer. Known by his nickname of "Poison", he won world championships at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and is best remembered for his two victories over then-undefeated Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.-Amateur career:Jones won two New York...

, by a disqualification in round five. Barrera was knocked down in Round 5 by Jones, and was declared the loser by disqualification and not by knockout because Barrera's cornerman climbed onto the ring to stop the fight as Jones was finishing Barrera.

On April 18, 1997, he was given a chance to regain his title, facing Jones in a rematch in Las Vegas. Barrera was defeated by a unanimous decision and retired from boxing.

Comeback trail

Barrera announced a comeback in 1998, and he started off by defeating Angel Rosario by a knockout in round five. After two more wins, he was given another opportunity to fight for a world title by the WBO. On October 31, he became a two-time world super bantamweight champion by defeating Richie Wenton by a knockout in three rounds, winning the WBO's vacant title.

In 1999, he had two title defenses and then he ran in to controversy. On December 18, he defeated César Najera in four rounds at California. But upon finding out that Najera had a losing record and was part of Barrera's team, the California State Athletic Commission decided to rule the fight a no contest

No contest (boxing)

No contest is a technical term used in some combat sports to describe a fight that ends for reasons outside the fighters' hands.-Boxing:...

bout.

Barrera vs. Morales I

In February 2000, Barrera was defeated by the WBC

World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

super bantamweight title holder Erik Morales

Erik Morales

Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

by a controversial 12 round split decision. It was an intense battle in which both fighters were cut and battered. Ring Magazine named it the fight of the year

Ring Magazine fights of the year

The Ring was established in 1922 and since 1945, it has named a Fight of the Year.-1940s:*1945 - Rocky Graziano KO 10 Red Cochrane I*1946 - Tony Zale KO 6 Rocky Graziano I*1947 - Rocky Graziano KO 6 Tony Zale II...

.

After the bout, the WBO reinstated Barrera as their champion and he defended the title three additional times. On June 17, 2000, he defeated Luiz Freitas (19-1-0) by first round knockout. In his next bout, he defeated José Luis Valbuena

José Luis Valbuena

José Luis Valbuena is a former bantamweight boxer from Venezuela, who had a total number of 30 professional fights during his career. He is best known for knocking down Carlos Barreto on 1999-10-09. Three days after the bout Barreto died due to brain injuries sustained in the match...

(18-1-1) by twelve round unanimous decision. On December 1, 2000, he scored a sixth round knockout over former world champion Jesús Salud

Jesus Salud

Jesus Salud Born 3 May 1963 is an American professional boxer of Filipino descent. Originally from Sinait in the Philippines, he resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. He won the World Boxing Association super bantamweight title by disqualification on December 11, 1989 in a bout against Juan Jose Estrada....

Barrera vs Hamed

In 2001, Barrera moved up in weight division. On April 7, he handed British boxer Naseem Hamed

Naseem Hamed

Naseem Hamed is an English former professional boxer.He is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, & Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion....

his first and only loss for the Lineal
Lineal championship
In professional boxing, the lineal championship of a weight class is a notional world championship title. It is initially held at some moment in time by a boxer universally acclaimed as the best in the class. Another boxer can win the lineal championship only by defeating the reigning lineal...

featherweight title by a twelve-round decision. Before the fight, Hamed was a 3 to 1 betting favorite in Las Vegas. Hamed could not hit Barrera with his trademark lefts as Barrera circled to his left and worked both head and body. Barrera was not a fan of Hamed's antics and responded to Hamed's punches during clinches. On one occasion early in the fight, Hamed grabbed Barrera and they both fell to the ground where Barrera threw a right jab, leading to a warning from referee Joe Cortez. In the 12th and final round Barrera trapped Hamed in a full nelson, and forced his head into the turnbuckle, resulting in a point deducted by referee Joe Cortez. Ultimately, Barrera threw more, harder punches and more impressive combinations than Hamed throughout the course of the fight. Barrera was awarded the victory via a unanimous decision, with the scorecards reading 115-112, 115 -112, 116-111, and won the IBO Featherweight title. On September 8, 2001, he defeated former champion Enrique Sánchez

Enrique Sánchez

Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...

by sixth round TKO.

Barrera vs. Morales II

On 22 June 2002, Barrera defeated Morales in a rematch via a unanimous decision, successfully defending his Lineal title

Lineal championship

In professional boxing, the lineal championship of a weight class is a notional world championship title. It is initially held at some moment in time by a boxer universally acclaimed as the best in the class. Another boxer can win the lineal championship only by defeating the reigning lineal...

, and winning Morales' WBC title and the vacant Ring Magazine title. Following the bout, Barrera relinquished the WBC belt. On 7 November, he defeated former five-time world champion Johnny Tapia

Johnny Tapia

John Lee "Johnny" Tapia is a Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.-Childhood:Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and...

by a 12-round unanimous decision.

Barrera got his 60th career fight on 12 April 2003, defeating former WBC title holder Kevin Kelley by a knockout in round four to retain the Ring Magazine's world Featherweight title.

Barrera vs Pacquiao I

On November 16, 2003, Barrera was defeated by Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

in the eleventh round when Barerra's corner threw in the towel earning Pacquiao his third world championship

Triple Champion

In different sports when a sportsman wins three crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions is called a Triple Champion.-Boxing:In boxing, a triple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in three different weight classes....

in third weight division (Barrera's The Ring Featherweight title was on the line when he fought Pacquiao). Barrera's training was also interrupted when the "Old Fire

Old Fire

The Old Fire was a wildfire that started on October 25, 2003 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County of southern California.It was one of over a dozen wildfires burning in Southern California wildlands at the same time...

" wildfire

Wildfire

A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

of 2003 forced his team to evacuate their training facilities located in Big Bear Lake, California

Big Bear Lake, California

Big Bear Lake is a city in San Bernardino County, California along the south shore of Big Bear Lake, located northeast of the city of San Bernardino. The population was 5,019 at the 2010 census, down from 5,438 at the 2000 census...

.

On June 19, 2004, Barrera defeated former WBA bantamweight

Bantamweight

Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...

title holder Paulie Ayala

Paulie Ayala

Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

in Los Angeles by a tenth round knockout.

Super featherweight

On November 27, 2004, Barrea fought Morales for the third time and became a three-division world champion by defeating Morales in a majority decision to capture the WBC super featherweight

Super Featherweight

Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

title.

On April 9, 2005, Barrera retained the title with a second round knockout against future champion Mzonke Fana

Mzonke Fana

Mzonke Fana is a professional boxer in the junior lightweight division. Known as "The Rose of Khayelitsha", he was a virtual unknown in the boxing world until he challenged and defeated Malcolm Klassen for the IBF World Junior lightweight title in 2007...

in El Paso, Texas, this win also marked Barrera's 60th career win.

On September 17 of the same year, he unified his WBC super featherweight title with the IBF

International Boxing Federation

The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...

title by defeating the IBF title holder Robbie Peden

Robbie Peden

Robert Lloyd Peden is a professional boxer from Australia.-Amateur career:Member of the 1992 Australian Olympic team as a Flyweight...

by a twelve round unanimous decision in Las Vegas.

Barrera vs Juárez

On May 20, 2006, Barrera defended his title against American boxer Rocky Juárez

Rocky Juarez

Ricardo Rocky Juarez is a professional Mexican-American boxer. Juarez has a current professional record of 28 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw, with 19 wins coming by way of knockout.- Professional career :...

with what was announced immediately after the fight as a twelve-round draw, which the judges scored 115-113, 113-115, and 114-114. However, tabulation errors were found in the judges' scorecards, leading to a final score of 115-114, 114-115, and 115-114, a split decision in favor of Barerra. He fought Juárez in a rematch bout on September 16, this time Barrera won by a unanimous decision with scores of (117-111, 115-113, 115-113).

Barrera vs Márquez

On March 17, 2007 Barrera lost his WBC

World Boxing Council

super featherweight

Super Featherweight

Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

title to fellow Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

by unanimous decision. Though Barrera claimed that the judges and referee were wrong, because he knocked down Márquez in the seventh round and the referee ruled it a slip.

Barrera vs Pacquiao II

Barrera fought Pacquiao in a rematch bout for the WBC "International" super featherweight title on October 6, 2007 in Las Vegas. Barrera was defeated by a unanimous decision with scores of 118-109, 118-109, 115-112. After the match, Barrera expressed his desire to retire from boxing, however no official confirmation had been given. On February 13, 2008, Barrera announced to the media that he would fight the winner of the Márquez vs. Pacquiao bout on March 15. The winner of this turned out to be Pacquiao, in a highly disputed split decision. However, Pacquiao's move to the lightweight division and subsequent capture of the WBC lightweight title ensured that a third fight between the two would not happen.

Lightweight

Marco Antonio Barrera, at 35, ended his brief retirement, and signed a five year contract on August 26, 2008 with promoter Don King. He moved up to the lightweight division, his goal to become the first Mexican ever, to win a title in 4 different weight divisions.

On November 7, 2008, Barrera marked his return to the ring, in Chengdu

Chengdu

Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...

, China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

, by knocking out Sammy Ventura in his first bout in the lightweight division.

Barrera vs. Khan

It was announced on 15 January 2009 that Barrera would return to the ring against British boxer Amir Khan

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

. Even with Barrera getting on in years, this was seen to be the biggest test of the young Briton's career thus far. Frank Warren

Frank Warren (promoter)

Frank Darren Warren is an English boxing manager and promoter.-Early life and early career:The son of a bookmaker, Warren trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London....

promoted the fight, which took place on 14 March 2009 at the MEN Arena

Manchester Evening News Arena

The Manchester Evening News Arena is an indoor arena situated in Manchester, England. It is adjacent to Manchester Victoria station near Corporation Street...

.

Barrera lost the bout by a fifth-round technical decision. In the first round, the two fighters clashed heads, resulting in a deep gash above Barrera's forehead, which bled throughout the bout. Ringside doctors stopped the fight at the beginning of the fifth round due to the severity of the cut. The judges scored the fight 50-45, 50-45, and 50-44 for Khan at the point of stoppage and he was declared the winner by technical decision.

On March 26, 2009, Barrera's promoter, Don King, filed a protest with the British Boxing Board of Control, WBA and WBO on behalf of Barrera, claiming the accidental clash of heads should have resulted in the fight being ruled a no-contest. Under the rules governing the bout, had the fight been stopped prior to the end of the fourth round due to the accidental headbutt, the official ruling would have been no contest requiring an immediate rematch. Referee Dave Parris, however, waited until midway through the fourth round before asking the ringside physician to inspect the wound.

Before this fight, Barrera had fought Freudis Rojas on January 31, 2009 in Zapopan, Jalisco. Rojas was disqualified for a headbutt which left Barrera with a bad cut over his left eye. The cut could have jeopardized Barrera's scheduled bout against Khan. Despite this injury, the fight went ahead regardless.

Comeback

After the loss, Barrera took a period of inactivity. The former three time world champion fought on June 26, 2010 against Adailton de Jesus

Adailton de Jesus

Adailton de Jesus is a Brazilian boxer in the Featherweight division. He was born in Salvador, Bahia. -Professional career:Known as "Precipício", Adailton turned pro in 2002 in his hometown...

of Brazil. The 10 round bout took place at the Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas, United States. The match was an undercard of the Latin Fury 15 PPV, which featured Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. John Duddy

John Duddy

John Francis Duddy is a retired middleweight professional boxer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. Duddy fought under the moniker of "Ireland's John Duddy" or "The Derry Destroyer"....

.
Marco Antonio Barrera dominated De Jesus for 10 rounds winning via decision.

On February 12, 2011, he fought Jose Arias of the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

and scored a TKO in the second round.

Professional boxing record

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Jose Arias
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Adailton de Jesus

Adailton de Jesus is a Brazilian boxer in the Featherweight division. He was born in Salvador, Bahia. -Professional career:Known as "Precipício", Adailton turned pro in 2002 in his hometown...

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Amir Khan

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

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Freudis Rojas
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Sammy Ventura
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Manny Pacquiao

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Juan Manuel Márquez

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Rocky Juarez

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Rocky Juarez

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Robbie Peden

Robert Lloyd Peden is a professional boxer from Australia.-Amateur career:Member of the 1992 Australian Olympic team as a Flyweight...

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Mzonke Fana

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Erik Morales

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Paulie Ayala

Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

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Manny Pacquiao

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Kevin Kelley
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Johnny Tapia

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Erik Morales

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Enrique Sánchez

Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...

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Naseem Hamed

Naseem Hamed is an English former professional boxer.He is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, & Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion....

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Jesus Salud

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Jose Luis Valbuena

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Erik Morales

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Cesar Najera
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Pastor Humberto Maurin
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Paul Lloyd
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Richie Wenton
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Pedro Javier Torres
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Angel Rosario
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Junior Jones

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Jesse Magana
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Orlando Fernandez
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Jesse Benavides

Jesse Benavides is an American former professional boxer.- Amateur career :Benavides was the 1981 National AAU light flyweight champion and 1982 National Golden Gloves flyweight champion....

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Kennedy McKinney

Kennedy McKinney is a former professional boxer, who won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics...

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Agapito Sánchez

Agapito Sanchez

Agapito Sánchez was a boxer from the Dominican Republic, nicknamed "El Ciclón", in the Super Bantamweight weight class. He won 37 of his 50 fights, 18 by knockout.-Pro career:...

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Frank Toledo

Frank Toledo is an American boxer who held the International Boxing Federation featherweight championship in 2001....

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Daniel Jiménez Román is a former Puerto Rican bantamweight boxer. He is best known for having won the WBO title as a pro.-Pro:...

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Jesus Alberto Sarabia
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Israel Gonzalez
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Miguel Espinoza
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Carlos Gabriel Salazar
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Justo Zuniga
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Alejandro Sanabria
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Eduardo Ramirez
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Elidio Dominguez
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Noe Santillana
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Facundo Rodriguez
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Ivan Salazar
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Angel Rosario
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Esteban Ayala
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Abner Barajas
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Miguel Espinoza
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Jose Felix Montiel
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Josefino Suarez
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Javier Diaz
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Sergio Aguila
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Jaime Rojas
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Jose Yanez
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Pedro Martinez
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Federico Lara
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Oscar Granados
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Outside the ring

Barrera's fights were promoted by Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

under the organization of Golden Boy Promotions

Golden Boy Promotions

Golden Boy Promotions, Inc. is a combat sport promotional firm started by former boxer six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya...

. He trained at De La Hoya's training facility in Big Bear, California.

He is currently promoted by Ryan Jenkins.

Since January 2009, Barrera has been a commentator for ESPN Deportes' weekly boxing show "Golpe a Golpe" (Blow by Blow) which airs live on Friday nights on the network. Barrera's co-host is SportsCenter anchor Jorge Eduardo Sanchez. Golpe a Golpe is the lead-in show to ESPN Deportes' popular "Viernes de Combates" (Friday Night Fights) boxing series and is the first ESPN Deportes show dedicated solely to boxing.

External links

boxen-artur.de – Encyclopedia
Marco Antonio Barrera Fight-by-Fight Career Record
HBO: Fighters: Marco Antonio Barrera Article

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