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Marco Antonio Rubio and Cristian Mijares in Mexican Fight Report

June 29, 2012 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

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Auditorio Centenario, Torreon, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico– Marco Antonio Rubio (53-6-1, 46 KOs), beaten solidly in a bid for the WBC middleweight title held by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. last February, will take on 24-year-old Jorge Cota (12-0, 11 KOs) this Saturday.

Cota is a tough fighter with heavy hands and boatloads of confidence, but his only fight of note is a TKO 8 victory last November over a 40-year-old Luis Ramon “Yori Boy” Campas.

Rubio, as he has demonstrated, is a confirmed, blue collar battler who just shows up with a fight in mind. It’s doubtful that a guy like him would be emotionally scarred by the loss to Chavez, but there is a question to be asked regarding his role as a full-fledged middleweight.

Although still in possession of a solid punch, Rubio is no longer the dreaded banger he was as a junior middleweight. Given that fact and the loose flesh that always seems to adorn his physique, one can’t help but wonder whether a trip down to the lucrative 154 lb. division might be an ideal career move at thirty-two years of age.

Rubio-Cota is for the vacant IBF international middleweight title, something that means absolutely nothing except for a 3% IBF sanctioning fee from both fighters and a guaranteed spot for the winner in the IBF’s Top 10.

Palenque de la Feria, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico– Cristian Mijares (45-6-2, 21 KOs) lost out on his chance to be beaten silly by an over-sized Nonito Donaire in July, so now it’s back to paying the light bill as he putters around the Mexican State Fair circuit.

This Saturday, the two-time super flyweight champ takes on Nicaragua’s Eusebio Osejo (21-10-2, 7 KOs) in a scheduled ten-rounder in the junior featherweight division.

Osejo, 26, is an opponent-type straight from standard casting. Without a knockout win since 2007, Osejo has spent a lot of time traveling the world– and losing. The Managua southpaw has lost bouts in Costa Rica, Mexico, France, and Italy.

The 30-year-old Mijares has his eyes set on a world title fight by the end of the year or, possibly, another run at trying to get that high-pay Donaire throttling.

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Paul Magno has over thirty-five years of experience in and around the sport of boxing and has had his hand in everything, from officiating to training. As a writer, his work has appeared in Yahoo Sports, Fox Sports, Inside Fights, The Boxing Tribune, Fight Hype, Man Cave Magazine, Bleacher Report, and The Queensberry Rules.

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