Joseph Agbeko to take on Abner Mares in August 2011 – Boxing news
Former IBF Bantamweight world champion, Joseph Agbeko has successfully cleared his medical test to prove that he is hundred percent fit to go against Abner Mares in August 2011.
He is now allowed to start his training to prepare for the defence of his IBF & WBC Silver Bantamweight titles against the undefeated Mexican professional boxer, Abner Mares.
Both the fighters will be face to face in the final of the Showtime’s mega four-man tournament on August 13, 2011 in the United States. The fight venue has not been decided yet.
It was expected that Agbeko will face Abner Mares on April 23, 2011 in Los Angeles but the fight was postponed due to Mares’ sickness. The injury became so severe that he was not able to recover before the fight. Afterwards, Vic Darchinyan was chosen as
his next possible opponent. Agbeko won a unanimous decision fighting against Darchinyan. He then beat Yonnhy Perez by scoring unanimous decision against him fighting at the Emerald Queen Casino in Washington, United States. Doctors then advised Agbeko to go
for further treatment and to stop fighting for six weeks at least in order to avoid permanent injury.
Following that, Agbeko went home in his home city Ghana for rest and is returning back to New York to start his training session.
Agbeko said, “I would like to thank Abner Mares and Showtime for giving me time to recover from this most unfortunate of injuries. I will forever remember their great sportsmanship during my time of trouble.”
During the period when Agbeko was injured, Showtime and Golden Boy tried to find the replacement instead of Agbeko for Mares so that Mares could get a chance of a title bout.
Mares said, “I'm excited to get the fight with Agbeko rescheduled so I can finish what I started and win the bantamweight tournament, it was unfortunate that Agbeko was injured in April, but I'm happy he has recovered and we have a date set now. I want to
fight the best and I know I can beat the best. I will not rest until I become the best of the best in the bantamweight division.”
Hopefully, the fight between the two will be competitive and interesting one. The fighters are focused to win this because it can open the doors of many possible and worthy fights for them in future.
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