Juarez narrowly overcomes McMorrow, Payano and Marrero maintain rankings

2/23/2014

It's rare to say this but this past Saturday saw the most interesting international bout of the day being between two females as opposed to their male equivalent.

Although it's rare for female boxing to be one of the true highlights of the weekend it did come with a good reason. That's because the bout in question featured former world champion, and Mexican boxing goddess, Mariana Juarez (39-7-3, 16), pictured, fighting against American buzzsaw Melissa McMorrow (9-4-3, 1) in a Super Flyweight contest.

The bout, a hard fought one to say the least, saw Juarez just coming out with a narrow unanimous decision in a bout that could easily have gone either way. What it set up for Juarez was a WBC title fight with fellow Mexican Zulina Munoz though with McMorrow retaining her high standard she may be viewed as a potential opponent for another champion possibly even Naoko Fujioka who surely has to be looking to her next fight having taken the WBA belt at 115lbs late last year.

As well as the female contest we also saw a few world ranked men in action.

The two notable ones were both Dominican. These saw Featherweight hopeful Claudio Marrero (15-1, 11) take an expected decision victory over veteran Jose Angel Beranza (36-29-2, 28) whilst Juan Carlos Payano (15-0, 8) took a decision over the stubborn German Meraz (46-30-1, 25). Unfortunately, as you can tell from the records, both contests were mismatches and between them the Dominican's lost just a round or two.

Payano, a Bantamweight prospect, will need to fight top Asian's to get to a world title whilst Marrero, a good Featherweight, will likely have a number of Asian's aiming for his head and the world ranking he holds.

(Picture courtesy of boxrec.com)

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February 22nd-Juarez v McMorrow and world ranked Dominicans

2/20/2014

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Whilst much of Saturday's important action is in Macau there is a small number of notable bouts taking place elsewhere.

The stand out bout, from where we're sat, is in Mexico as Mexican female fighting icon Mariana "Barbie" Juarez (38-7-3, 16), a former Riyo Togo opponent, takes on the excellent little American Melissa McMorrow (9-3-3, 1). This bout might not be one that registers in the mind of many boxing fans world wide due to the general view on female boxing but this is as close to a female super fight that you can get.

Whilst the Juarez/McMorrow is a big fight on it's own it's a bigger fight for us when you consider it's in the Super Flyweight division, the same division that currently has Japanese sensation Naoko Fujioka as one of the champions.

Although the Juarez/McMorrow fight is effectively an eliminator for the WBC title we'd certainly not mind either of the women challenging Fujioka for the WBA belt.

In the US we get two other bouts of note, both on the same card and both featuring world ranked Dominicans.

One of those fights sees the unbeaten Juan Carlos Payano (14-0, 8) fighting against the experienced German Meraz (46-29-1, 25). Ranked #2 by the WBA and #10 by the WBC at Bantamweight Payano is certainly a contender that Asian fans should be making a note of. His WBA ranking sits him a place ahead of Tabtimdeang Na Rachawat (#2) whilst his WBC ranking sees him sandwiched between Petch Sor Chitpattan (#9) and Kohei Oba (#11). It would seem very likely that if he wants a Bantamweight title he will need to fight at least 1 top Asian opponent in the near future and that could make for an interesting contests.

The other bout on the show sees Payano's compatriot Claudio Marrero (14-1, 11), ranked #10 by the WBA at Featherweight. Marrero, like Payano,is in easy against an experienced but limited Jose Angel Beranza (36-28-2, 28). Although Marrero is coming in after his first loss, he should still have a field day with Beranza who is tough but very limited and has been collecting a lot of losses in recent years.

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Juarez narrowly overcomes McMorrow, Payano and Marrero maintain rankings

February 22nd-Juarez v McMorrow and world ranked Dominicans

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