Igazi elachithwa kusukela ekhaleni Omar Figueroa sika okokugcina kwaba at the AT&T Center, izandla zakhe Kulimale kusukela iphonsa eziyinkulungwane punches. Figueroa selikhathele, futhi asizisoli lapho ibhande ubuqhawe wabekwa ehlombe lakhe.

Lokho kwaba ngo-July 27, 2013. Figueroa alwa Nihito Arakawa futhi ufune WBC uHlelo Title in a iziqubu ukuthi isipikili eziningi Fight yezinhlu Year.

Eminyakeni emibili kamuva, Omar “Panterita” Figueroa uyeza emuva AT&T Center. Figueroa (25-0-1, 18 Kos) is headlining ikhadi Premier Boxing Champions on Dec. 12, lapho uzoba ukulwa Antonio demarco (31-5-1, 23 Kos).

Amathikithi ukuqala at $31 ayatholakala www.attcenter.com ngoba ukulwa, okuyinto sihlanganisa Dominic “Trouble” Breazeale ngokumelene “Prince” Charles Martin in a iziqubu wesibhakela kanye ukubuya ring of yangaphambili welterweight iqhawe Victor Ortiz.

For Figueroa, ukubuya kwakhe kuze AT&T Center ring kusho ukubuyela nesibekandzaba omunye nights elikhulu ekuphileni kwakhe, lapho wanqoba Arakawa in a isinqumo.

“Going uzwane-to-uzwane, 12 emahlandla, kwakunjani okuthile amabhayisikobho Rocky,” Figueroa wathi. “Kuba ngokuba nesibindi futhi inhliziyo ukuba uhlale khona futhi enze ngaleyo ndlela. Ukuze khona, igazi futhi ephukile izandla, kwaba amazing. Ngajabula ukuba bakwazi ukwenza lokho lapha AT&T Center.”

Figueroa, 25, iyona ukuziqhenya Rio Grande Valley. Muhle ongowokuzalwa Weslaco, mayelana 250 zamakhilomitha eningizimu ye-AT&T Center. Ofundisa khona noyise, Omar Sr., ababeka amagilavu ​​kuqala phezu indodana yakhe lapho Jr. kwaba 6.

Ngelika “Panterita,” Figueroa athuthukiswe isitayela sakhe esiyingini ngokusebenzisa i ezigidini 200 ukulwa amateur eMexico omunye 50 e-United States njengoba junior.

Muhle a puncher lukhuni. Akazange Akanandaba ukuthatha hits ezimbalwa uma kusho ukuthola isibhamu ezimbalwa ngokwakhe. Ayalwa kanye Figueroa ziphelelwa mayelana “isayensi sweet” futhi more about ekuzimiseleni kwethu kukodwa. Lokho isitayela wahola impi kunazo zonke AT&T Center eyake.

Figueroa futhi Arakawa adayiswa punches yonke wesibili 12-round yabo mpi, kanye AT&T Center isixuku silokhu sithi “Omar! Omar!” kulo. Nakuba Figueroa, i fighter Orthodox, Kulimale izandla zakhe isibhakela ebusweni Arakawa kanye nomzimba, Arakawa bekungeke ukwehlela. Bobabili fighters wabekezela 36 amaminithi, enikeza nomunye ufakazelwe yilabo abazibiza inhlonipho ekupheleni round ngamunye.

Lapho impi yaphela futhi Figueroa yagcotshwa iqhawe yezwe yokuqala kusukela Rio Grande Valley, Isibindi sakhe ngokusebenzisa le mpi amenza kakhulu ngaphezu ibhande wesibhakela tindilinga. Ngokusho Compubox, lapho amathali punches uphonswe lawela, Figueroa axhunyiwe on 450 amandla punches empini, owesine-kunazo sonke isikhathi kunoma iyiphi ekilasini isisindo CompuBox sika 30 Eminyakeni zokuqopha ukulwa.

“In a sport bukhicite izahluko eziningi sikhumbuleke,” Umsakazi Mauro Ranallo wathi ngesikhathi kulwa, “lapha e San Antonio ungakwazi ukwengeza enye isahluko wethulele isibhakela ezinhle futhi ngesihluku.”

Esenze umsebenzi wathuthela kuze 140-iphawundi class isisindo, Figueroa uthe lesi yisikhathi sokuqala yena ngizizwa ngiwumqemane ngokugcwele kusukela ukulwa Arakawa. Njengoba star Figueroa liyaqhubeka avuke, Demarco, a WBC iqhawe uHlelo zangaphambili ngokwakhe Sinaloa, Mexico, umi endleleni yakhe.

“Lokhu kuyoba fight onzima kakhulu futhi cishe nakanjani kube nempi ngenxa yezimpi izitayela zethu,” Demarco wathi.

The Dec. 12 ikhadi ugcwele matchups big, omunye umcimbi main iziqubu sici sDominic “Trouble” BREAZEALE (16-0, 14 Kos) ngokumelene “Prince” Charles Martin (22-0-1, 20 Kos) futhi Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (36-4-1, 31 Kos) ngokumelene Travis “Isikhathi My” Kauffman (30-1, 22 Kos).

BREAZEALE, a quarterback zangaphambili at the University of Northern Colorado, wathatha up Boxing emva college umsebenzi wakhe baphela futhi waba 2012 Olympian. Uye baloba Knockout e yonke kodwa ukulwa ezimbili professional, kodwa ubhekene novivinyo ezinzima ngokumelene Martin, oye gone emahlandla ezingaphezu kuka ezine nje kuphela e wakhe wokugcina eziyisishiyagalombili ukulwa.

Victor Ortiz kwenza ephindela icici the AT&T Center kanye, njengomsebenzi wokuphila kwakhe selithathe indlela elithakazelisayo kusukela walwa Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2011. Ortiz uvele on “Dancing With The Stars” in 2013, futhi Indima oyibamba e “The Expendables 3” futhi “Southpaw.” San Antonio wakhe impi kuyoba kuqala wakhe 364 izinsuku, futhi Ortiz kuyoba intandokazi fan.

Leija / Battah Promotions lilethe ikhadi empini San Antonio, njengoba langakubo indodana kaJese James Leija wathi uthemba ukuletha ukulwa makhulu ukuba AT&T Center.

“San Antonio Cishe umuzi kangcono boxing e-United States,” Ikhayithi wathi. “Sifuna ukuba aqhubeke ezinika abalandeli kuwufanele imali yabo amanye fighters ubhedu Texas nakwezinye izindawo.”

The ukulwa at the AT&T Center nazo ithuba abanye fighters wendawo ukuze uthole in the ring on a yokusakaza ongeke isiqephu on NBC futhi NBCSN kuqalwe 5 p.m. EST.

Mario Barrios, a oneminyaka engu-20 ubudala ababeza Southwest High School in San Antonio, uye walwa kakade izikhathi eziyisithupha 2015 sanqoba konke ukulwa eziyisithupha. For Barrios (13-0, 7 Kos), ehamba engena AT&T Center uyinto wathi career yakhe yonke iye ekwakheni sengqondo.

“Ngiye alwa ezindaweni eziningi kangaka lapho akekho owayazi me,” Barrios wathi. “Ukuze silwe ekhaya, phambi emndenini wami, kungase kube kancane obuqand. Kuzoba ukuzizwa kwami ​​like ukuthi iphuzu career yakho ukuthi wenza ngempela okuthile.”