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What number is he on?

#75, Marco Antonio Barrera. He started on him on December 19 of last year and still doing him. It's been over 9 months. A baby could have been conceived and born during this time.

How about a Top-10 quotes from another great boxer pound for pound of all-time:

1. “Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won’t ever forget that.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

2. “There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

3. “When people say I can’t or I musn’t, I always say I can and I will.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

4. “I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

5. “Boxing is a never-ending story. New fighters keep coming along. Opponents keep popping up. The next superstar is always on the way.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

6. “Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I’ve enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

7. “I don’t care if you’re a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

8. “Not one day passes that I don’t think about my mother. And to be honest, there are still times when it’s a lonely world without her. But I feel that I was blessed to have her in my life, and I believe she’s still looking out for me.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

9. “You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

10. “I want to get across the idea in the community that all children have some golden boy or golden girl in them.”

– Oscar de la Hoya

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 10:44 #75, Marco Antonio Barrera. He started on him on December 19 of last year and still doing him. It's been over 9 months. A baby could have been conceived and born during this time.

I always thought he was a bit eccentric but that’s downright insane!

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 14:37

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 10:44 #75, Marco Antonio Barrera. He started on him on December 19 of last year and still doing him. It's been over 9 months. A baby could have been conceived and born during this time.

I always thought he was a bit eccentric but that’s downright insane!

So I was right a couple of years ago...I'll be dead by the time he's at #1.

Maybe the guy just trolls ya all...

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 10:44 #75, Marco Antonio Barrera. He started on him on December 19 of last year and still doing him. It's been over 9 months. A baby could have been conceived and born during this time.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 10:44 #75, Marco Antonio Barrera. He started on him on December 19 of last year and still doing him. It's been over 9 months. A baby could have been conceived and born during this time.

I only come on this topic when I see another poster comment.
Because it is the same drawn out bull crap on each fighter he posts.
So I enjoy the Boxrec faithful calling out how stupid this thread has gotten.

Damn 9 months on 1 fighter? This is beyond stupid

elmersalsa wrote: ↑27 Sep 2022, 21:05 Marco Antonio Barrera, the Baby Faced Assassin from Mexico City, Mexico only had 2 fights in the year 2005.

At age 31, Barrera defeated Mzonke Fana of South Africa (22-2, 8KOs), in only 2 rounds.

Fana was on a 12-fight win streak but against unknown world class competition, mostly from his country of South Africa.

The fight was at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, TX.

Barrera improves to 60-4, 1NC, with 42KOs.

Thank you for the recap of this forgotten classic

Jeff_lacy_ko wrote: ↑03 Oct 2022, 22:30

elmersalsa wrote: ↑27 Sep 2022, 21:05 Marco Antonio Barrera, the Baby Faced Assassin from Mexico City, Mexico only had 2 fights in the year 2005.

At age 31, Barrera defeated Mzonke Fana of South Africa (22-2, 8KOs), in only 2 rounds.

Fana was on a 12-fight win streak but against unknown world class competition, mostly from his country of South Africa.

The fight was at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, TX.

Barrera improves to 60-4, 1NC, with 42KOs.

Thank you for the recap of this forgotten classic

What will happen next??? Who knows?

Imagine the feeling of the great God Almighty holding up your arm in the air after a Victory over Lucifer, you the SOG? This is EXACTLY how MAB felt when he defeated Ricardo Juarez by a one-point decision in their WBC World Championship Super Featherweight fight at Staples Center on May 20, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. The great Oscarito was there, as a God figure, as an unreachable ideal for MAB. An inspiration to all The Top 100 Greatest Boxers Pound per Pound of All-Time claimees.



Will there be a rematch? Sooner than later perhaps? The mystery remains complete, deeply puzzling. Us mere mortals can't see in the future, maybe Oscar can. This quote makes me think he can: When people say I can’t or I musn’t, I always say I can and I will.

If you feel dizzy, even disoriented by the surprising turns this thread is taking, by the shocking new information revealed post after post, I suggest you print this ODLH coloring page, colour it, scan it and repost it here. Art is it's own medicine, The Great Golden Boy is the perferct cure. Maybe we can all help each other.

Thanks for your responses. Next for Marco Antonio Barrera was a match against contender Rocky Juarez of Texas.

All I hear is the crickets chirping

tiny_acres wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 06:20 All I hear is the crickets chirping

When he gets to 50, we'll have a 100-51 review before moving on surely

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 09:37

tiny_acres wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 06:20 All I hear is the crickets chirping

When he gets to 50, we'll have a 100-51 review before moving on surely

It will be 18 more years to reach 50. Then 36 years to recap 100-51.
By the time he is done he will be 163 years old or the same age Joe Louis was when Marciano beat him according to coming to America

Well, thanks for your responses.

In the two Marco Antonio Barrera fights with Rocky Juarez, were totally different. The first fight, was very entertaining with lots of action. Not too much to say about the second one.

The fault was Juarez' in my opinion. He should have attack much more and more often. He didn't do enough to overwhelm the champion.

The judges called or scored the fight a draw in the first fight. And then, in the ensuing hours, it was changed to a Barrera's victory.
Juarez of Texas, gave a great fight. He even cut Barrera.

But, in the second fight, he didn't press enough. Barrera, a complete fighter, outboxed Juarez throughout the fight. Barrera won by a long margin and big because of the jab he used and also because the lack of effort by Juarez. Barrera shut Juarez' right eye.

Finishing both fights in review, we have seen a different Marco Antonio Barrera. He changed and adapted and became a better boxer. Now, he's a complete fighter in which he can box, inside and outside, take a good shot, great chin, endurance and determination and great hand and foot speed. He is definitely one of the greatest top 100 greatest boxers pound per pound ever.

From both fights that we have seen, Barrera improves to 63-4, 1NC, with 42KOs.

Juarez, drops to 25-3, with 18KOs.

tiny_acres wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 11:08

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 09:37

tiny_acres wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 06:20 All I hear is the crickets chirping

When he gets to 50, we'll have a 100-51 review before moving on surely

It will be 18 more years to reach 50. Then 36 years to recap 100-51.
By the time he is done he will be 163 years old or the same age Joe Louis was when Marciano beat him according to coming to America

Loved the barbershop scenes! Hate this thread.

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 20:51

tiny_acres wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 11:08

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 09:37
When he gets to 50, we'll have a 100-51 review before moving on surely

It will be 18 more years to reach 50. Then 36 years to recap 100-51.
By the time he is done he will be 163 years old or the same age Joe Louis was when Marciano beat him according to coming to America

Loved the barbershop scenes! Hate this thread.

elmersalsa wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 20:00 Well, thanks for your responses.

In the two Marco Antonio Barrera fights with Rocky Juarez, were totally different. The first fight, was very entertaining with lots of action. Not too much to say about the second one.

The fault was Juarez' in my opinion. He should have attack much more and more often. He didn't do enough to overwhelm the champion.

The judges called or scored the fight a draw in the first fight. And then, in the ensuing hours, it was changed to a Barrera's victory.
Juarez of Texas, gave a great fight. He even cut Barrera.

But, in the second fight, he didn't press enough. Barrera, a complete fighter, outboxed Juarez throughout the fight. Barrera won by a long margin and big because of the jab he used and also because the lack of effort by Juarez. Barrera shut Juarez' right eye.

Finishing both fights in review, we have seen a different Marco Antonio Barrera. He changed and adapted and became a better boxer. Now, he's a complete fighter in which he can box, inside and outside, take a good shot, great chin, endurance and determination and great hand and foot speed. He is definitely one of the greatest top 100 greatest boxers pound per pound ever.

From both fights that we have seen, Barrera improves to 63-4, 1NC, with 42KOs.

Juarez, drops to 25-3, with 18KOs.

MAB was really a complete fighter. Maybe he'll KO Hatton and move up a notch!!!!

Best topic

There are guys who aren't born yet that can find there way in this top 100 by the time we get to last 25.

oogiebe wrote: ↑09 Nov 2022, 17:32 There are guys who aren't born yet that can find there way in this top 100 by the time we get to last 25.

The tops tens yet to be born.

Will they even be human as we know them?

The year 2007 was not a great one for the great Baby Faced Assassin.

At age 33, an age that most fighters are on the verge of retirement, Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico City, Mexico showed that he was still effective against some top world class opposition, but FATHER TIME usually dictates if you're still have it or not. He still got, it, but, why keep getting pummeled over your head and body over and over again?

Barrera started to be a professional boxer at the age of 15 in 1989. Eighteen years has passed since and in 2007, he is only 33, an age where I have said before, many fighters indeed, call it quits.

On March 17, 2007, Barrera fights against fellow countryman, the great Juan Manuel Marquez for the WBC World Super Featherweight Championship. It was Barrera's 4th title defense.

In a fast paced encounter, Barrera lost his crown to Marquez by Unanimous decision. But, Barrera looked impressive in defeat. The spoiler was that when he dropped Marquez with a perfect left hook, that he continued hitting the challenger while he was still on the canvas, and American referee, Jay Nady, deducted a point. That made the round score 10-8 for Marquez, because Marquez was also winning the round. The fight was close up to that point.

After 12 rounds, Barrera lost his title.

And 7 months later, again in Las Vegas, NV, Barrera challenges the great Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao of the Philippines for an self created WBC International Super Featherweight Title. The sport of boxing at this time was creating some bogus title alphabetically organizations. It was all for the MONEY. Every weight class by then, had at least 6 world champions. Three of them legitimate (WBC World, WBA World and IBF World championships).

This was a rematch that Barrera wanted after 4 years when he got clobbered by the Pacman in the year 2003 by knockout at featherweight.

Pacquiao gave Barrera a vicious beating that he didn't look himself. This time, on October 6, Barrera fought much better. But, Pacquiao's speed and accuracy was on point. He even opened a big gash on Barreras right cheekbone to obtain a unanimous decision. And again, Barrera got a point deducted in round 11 for hitting on the break. Did that cost him yo win the fight. In a way, yes. The fight was close in my view.

At 33, Barrera had his last hurrah. Two all-time great pound per pound boxers beat him. It is time to call it quits.

Barrera falls to 63-6, 1NC, with 42KOs.

The end.