8/20 PBC on SHO: "See you at the Crossroads - new version" Omar Figueroa vs Sergey Lipinets
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Broner don’t wanna do the work to get in fight shape anymore.
Figueroa-Lipinets Quadrupleheader: Weigh-In Results From Hollywood, Florida
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BY KEITH IDEC
Published Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:56 PM EDT
HOLLYWOOD, Florida – Omar Figueroa Jr. stepped on the Florida Athletic Commission’s scale at his lowest weight in eight years Friday afternoon.
Figueroa officially weighed 139¾ pounds for his 12-round, 140-pound fight against Sergey Lipinets on Saturday night at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Lipinets, a late replacement for Adrien Broner, came in at exactly the same weight as Figueroa.
Kazakhstan’s Lipinets stepped in for Broner on five days’ notice. Broner withdrew from this “Showtime Championship Boxing” main event Monday morning due to mental health issues.
Figueroa (28-2-1, 19 KOs), of Weslaco, Texas, will end a 15-month layoff in this WBC elimination match. He sought treatment for his mental health after suffering a technical-knockout loss to welterweight contender Abel Ramos (27-5-2, 21 KOs) in May 2021 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
Lipinets last fought in April 2021, when undefeated Philadelphia native Jaron Ennis (29-0, 27 KOs, 1 NC) knocked him out in the sixth round of a 12-round welterweight bout at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Ennis dropped Lipinets, a former IBF junior welterweight champ, once apiece in the fourth and sixth rounds.
Both Figueroa, 32, and Lipinets, 33, have moved back down to the junior welterweight division following welterweight losses in their most recent appearances. Most online sportsbooks list Lipinets as a 3-1 favorite to defeat Figueroa.
The official weights for the first three fights Showtime will televise before Figueroa-Lipinets are listed below.
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Albert Puello (20-0, 10 KOs), San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic, 139½ pounds vs. Batyr Akhmedov (9-1, 8 KOs), Oktyabr, Uzbekistan, 139¾ pounds, 12 rounds for the vacant WBA super lightweight title.
Roger Gutierrez (26-3-1, 20 KOs), Maracaibo, Venezuela, 130 pounds vs. Hector Luis Garcia (15-0, 10 KOs, 3 NC), San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic, 130 pounds, 12 rounds for Gutierrez’s WBA super featherweight title.
Brandun Lee (25-0, 22 KOs), La Quinta, California, 142¾ pounds vs. Will Madera (17-1-3, 10 KOs), Albany, New York, 10 rounds, welterweights.
damn omar made weight...this will either be a good thing and he can turn back the hands of time OR the damage is too far gone and he comes in a shell and lipinets beats the fukk outta him
Spoke to Figueroa and he's still not completely buying Broner's mental health struggles. The word going around here is that AB was 15 pounds over 2 weeks out.
Also got Lipinets' take on the whole mental health debate, struggles getting back to 140 and bouncing back from the Jaron Ennis KO.
Also got Lipinets' take on the whole mental health debate, struggles getting back to 140 and bouncing back from the Jaron Ennis KO.
I have a feeling lipinets and figgy might have left something on the scales..figgy moreso
Bigblackted4
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Driving my stuff up gone need a stream for this
Stinky Diver
attitude as bad as his odor
Yea, Vegas got Lipinets knocking him out lol…
time for the showtime card
lipinets vs lenny z was one of the bloodiest fights ive ever seen live...shyt was a crazy fight
its prolly over for warren...good lord
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BY KEITH IDEC
Published Sat Aug 20, 2022, 06:26 PM EDT
HOLLYWOOD, Florida – What was supposed to be a relatively easy tune-up fight for Rau’shee Warren turned disastrous Saturday.
Mexican journeyman Francisco Portillo upset the heavily favored former WBA bantamweight champion by unanimous decision in a six-round fight on the non-televised portion of the Omar Figueroa Jr.-Sergey Lipinets undercard. Warren dropped Portillo in the second round, but Portillo got off the canvas and engaged Warren in a dogfight that the huge underdog won on all three scorecards at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Judges Fernando Barbosa (57-56), Daniel Fitzgerald (58-56) and Michael Ross (57-56) all scored their back-and-forth fight for Portillo. Each judge scored four of the six rounds for Portillo, but Fitzgerald only scored Warren a 10-9 winner of the second round, whereas Barbosa and Ross scored that round 10-8 for Warren.
FanDuel sportsbook listed Warren as a 30-1 favorite over Portillo (18-11-2, 10 KOs).
The 35-year-old Warren, a three-time U.S. Olympian from Cincinnati, had hoped to build his way back toward another 118-pound title shot before ending his career. The former WBA bantamweight champ had won three straight bouts since French southpaw Nordine Oubaali (then 14-0) out-pointed him unanimously to win the then-unclaimed WBC 118-pound championship in January 2019 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Francisco Portillo Upsets 30-1 Favorite Rau'shee Warren On Points In 6-Rounder
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Sat Aug 20, 2022, 06:26 PM EDT
HOLLYWOOD, Florida – What was supposed to be a relatively easy tune-up fight for Rau’shee Warren turned disastrous Saturday.
Mexican journeyman Francisco Portillo upset the heavily favored former WBA bantamweight champion by unanimous decision in a six-round fight on the non-televised portion of the Omar Figueroa Jr.-Sergey Lipinets undercard. Warren dropped Portillo in the second round, but Portillo got off the canvas and engaged Warren in a dogfight that the huge underdog won on all three scorecards at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Judges Fernando Barbosa (57-56), Daniel Fitzgerald (58-56) and Michael Ross (57-56) all scored their back-and-forth fight for Portillo. Each judge scored four of the six rounds for Portillo, but Fitzgerald only scored Warren a 10-9 winner of the second round, whereas Barbosa and Ross scored that round 10-8 for Warren.
FanDuel sportsbook listed Warren as a 30-1 favorite over Portillo (18-11-2, 10 KOs).
The 35-year-old Warren, a three-time U.S. Olympian from Cincinnati, had hoped to build his way back toward another 118-pound title shot before ending his career. The former WBA bantamweight champ had won three straight bouts since French southpaw Nordine Oubaali (then 14-0) out-pointed him unanimously to win the then-unclaimed WBC 118-pound championship in January 2019 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
brandun lee is just lax when he fights but madera isnt doing anything to change...and madera is busted open
OOOH BRANDUN LEE WENT DOWN HARD!!1