Report and photos by Pepe Rodriguez/WBC
Before her travel to the City of Puebla, Mexico, World Boxing Council (WBC) international super-flyweight champion, Mariana “Barbie” Juarez, did her last training at the Golden Boy Gym in Mexico City, where she also shared with the WBC International Silver heavyweight champion Manuel “Diamond Boy” Charr, who is visiting Mexico on the occasion of the election of our president Mauricio Sulaiman.
Juarez (38-7, 16 KOs), who is currently ranked number one in the world (WBC), spent several days at the Centro Ceremonial Otomi in preparation for the second defense of her WBC international title.
The bout, which is the main event of the boxing card “ALERTA MAXIMA”, will be held next Saturday February 22 at the Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo of the City of Puebla, against the US American world champion Melissa “Mighty” Mc Morrow.
“La Barbie” wrapped up her sparring session with 3 different sparring partners and also performed the pre-weighin required by the WBC and made 115 pounds. She will travel to Puebla on Monday with her trainer Alejandro Camacho.
“I’m ready to fight Melissa Mc Morrow, I respect her and it will be a great fight. I only have a few days where I have to keep this weight and speed. By winning on Saturday I want to then go on to face the best of the world,” Juarez said.
This great event is organized by Promociones del Pueblo, with the support of Yak Casinos; and will have a luxury undercard with the spectacular presence of Miguel “Mickey” Roman and Abdiel “Mortero” Ramirez.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
