{"id":103541,"date":"2021-05-05T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103541"},"modified":"2021-05-05T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:59:20","slug":"luis-nery-shakes-up-the-boxing-world-with-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103541","title":{"rendered":"Luis Nery Shakes Up the Boxing World with Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103541\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=103541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-103542 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image005-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image005-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image005-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image005.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cTo me, bottom line, Brandon Figueroa is a threat. He is a threat to my career. He is a threat to my future plans. I need to eliminate that threat,\u201d \u2013 Nery<\/p>\n<p>WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Luis Nery Faces Undefeated Brandon Figueroa Saturday, May 15 Live On SHOWTIME\u00ae in a Premier Boxing Champions Event<\/p>\n<p>Two-division world champion and current WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Luis \u201cPantera\u201d Nery will meet Brandon \u201cHeartbreaker\u201d Figueroa in a battle of unbeatens for supremacy at 122 pounds in a 12-round battle that headlines action live on SHOWTIME Saturday, May 15 from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. in a Premier Boxing Champions event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Nery will make the inaugural defense of his WBC crown in his first SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING main event. Fighting out of Tijuana, Mexico, the undefeated champion has been training in his hometown just across the U.S.-Mexico border prior to relocating to Los Angeles this week ahead of his May 15 showdown with Figueroa. Now under the tutelage of his trainer Ismael Ramirez, Nery is confident ahead of this career-defining title fight which will set up a unification bout with WBO world champion Stephen Fulton, Jr. on September 11, live on SHOWTIME.<\/p>\n<p>Nery shared his thoughts on training camp, the magnitude of his fight against Figueroa and more:<\/p>\n<p>On what he\u2019s done different in this camp:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot has been different in this training camp. I am sparring against opponents that are very similar to Figueroa\u2019s style. I am running more often. I am eating right. I am preparing in a very conscious manner. My knockout streak came to an end because I wasn\u2019t fighting in my style. I am being more myself now like I was during my knockout streak. I have been loving how we have prepared for this fight as we continue on the road to success on May 15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his mentality:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mentality is simple: It\u2019s either me or him. I don\u2019t get in the ring thinking of getting to the final bell and potentially losing because of the judges. I am not leaving anything in the hands of the judges. I am going to be aggressive and I will be myself. I plan to win fighting in my style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his respect for Brandon:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of respect for Brandon, but inside the ring, I am going to be the rudest person he\u2019s ever met. Respect goes out of the window inside that ring. I am going to do everything to get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his sparring:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not sparred with anyone that the general public would probably know but I have a lot of great competition with local guys here in Tijuana. They are very tough kids, very strong kids. They are probably stronger than the big name fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Brandon\u2019s reach advantage:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFigueroa has long arms but I have fought against many fighters with long reach before. I have plenty of experience there. I will find opportunities and I will use those to my advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the belief that Brandon is a \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care about how pretty his face is. I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s a sex symbol or if he\u2019s someone who is very ugly. To me, bottom line, he is a threat. He is a threat to my career. He is a threat to my future plans. I need to eliminate that threat. Regardless of what he looks like or how pretty he might be, I am going to defeat him. I am not underestimating him in the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Stephen Fulton, Jr. sitting ringside ahead of a Sept. 11 unification bout with the winner:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really could not care less about Fulton being ringside on May 15. He\u2019s a blabbermouth anyway. What I am focused on is beating Brandon Figueroa. The time will come to worry about Stephen Fulton. But for right now, I do not care about him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo me, bottom line, Brandon Figueroa is a threat. He is a threat to my career. He is a threat to my future plans. I need to eliminate that threat,\u201d \u2013 Nery WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Luis Nery Faces Undefeated Brandon Figueroa Saturday, May 15 Live On SHOWTIME\u00ae in a Premier Boxing Champions Event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26492],"class_list":["post-103541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-luis-nery-shakes-up-the-boxing-world-with-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103541"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}