Escalante 130, Perez 130

Escalante 130, Perez 130

Mark E. Ortega

Leave-it-in-the-ring.com

March 25, 2011

Friday night, Solo Boxeo makes a return to Telefutura following a weekend off with a very competitive super featherweight main event between fringe contenders Antonio Escalante [24-3, 15 KOs] and Alejandro Perez [14-2-1, 9 KOs] in a ten round attraction at the Fairfield Sports Center in Fairfield, California.

The fight may not look like much on paper, but in comparison to the forgettable February the program had that saw numerous mismatches headlining the Friday weekly cards, it looks like a barnburner.

Escalante has proven he is not quite an elite fighter though there is still time in his young career to progress and pick up a trinket. Perez is on the verge of becoming an opponent if he loses a second straight fight to a young promising fighter as his last loss came against super bantamweight contender Rico Ramos. Perez lost a wide decision to the young fighter who may be on the verge of securing a world title fight against Tokyo's Akifumi Shimoda who owns the WBA belt.

If Escalante were to come away with the win, he could find himself in another big opportunity as he failed in his last try against Daniel Ponce de Leon, getting knocked cold in the third round last September.

When the two stepped on the scales Thursday, Escalante was two pounds over the 130-pound weight limit. On his second attempt later on, Escalante made the limit after Perez and his team made the decision that Antonio had to make the weight or they wouldn't take the fight no matter how much money they were offered. Good for the fans in Fairfield that Escalante was able to do it, otherwise there was a risk of the card being cancelled if it lost its ten round main event. Perez weighed in at 130 on the nose.

Other weigh-in results:

Manuel “Tino” Avila [2-0, KO] 121 vs. Frank Gutierrez [2-8-2, KO] 120

Guy Robb [2-0, KO] 131 vs. Manuel Morales [pro debut] 136*

Roman Morales [1-0, KO] 123 vs. Danny Pantoja [0-3-2]

Clint Colonel [3-1-2, KO] 150.5 vs. Carlos Musquez [3-4-3, 3 KOs] 149.5

Trevor McCumby [1-0, KO] 132 vs. Nathan Ortiz [0-1]

Robb took the fight as is with Morales overweight. Robb will get 10% of the purse while 10% will go to the commission.