battle on the border

Welcome to the Battle on the Boarder SPECIAL EDITION of 'On The Sidelines'!

Thank you to Bandon Cohn, Andy Lee and Beau Bagley ( Beau is from News Channel 9) for sticking around outside the Don Haskins Center.

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Abner Mares came to El Paso with one thing in mind and that was to leave with his second World Championship.

With the chants of "MEXICO" raining down, Mares is leaving El Paso with the WBC belt

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In what has to be the weirdest ending of the night (at least, so far ) David De La Mora's corner stops the fight and Anselmo Moreno retains his belts.

The fight was one sided through the first 2 Rounds as Moreno was hitting De La Mora early and often

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Antonio Escalante told me yesterday, that all he had on Francisco Camacho was 1 Round of tape and it was all that he need to see.

He was absolutely correct as Escalante dominated from the opening bell and earned a TKO over Camacho in the 4th Round

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The word for this fight was class and Vargas had all of it.

The referee stepped in to stop this fight with about 45 seconds to go in Round 2 to give Vargas the TKO.

Vargas is an excellent fighter and deserved a better opponent than what he got tonight,

Vargas is now 10-0-1 and Lora falls to 11-8

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In what started as a very even fight for two round, Rowland Bryant turned it on and took out Librado Andrade with a TKO in the begining of Round 3.

Rowland landed a series of combinations and Andrade could no longer defend himself as the ref stepped in to stop it at the 2:48 mark in Round 3

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The first televised match of the night went the full 10 rounds and Luis Ramos Jr. won by unanimous decision over Daniel Attah.

There was a little excitement in rounds 2 and 3, when both fighters knocked each other down. Ram

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I will be posting all night after every fight to let you know who won.

Hope you enjoy the evening with me and stay tuned because the first fight on Showtime Extreme is minutes away.

Type to you soon!

On a beautiful El Paso day, media and fans alike, converged on The Garden in downtown El Paso for the weigh in's for all the fighters for the Battle On The Border.

Without much excitement though, Abner Mares and Eric Morel both made weight and are ready for tomorrow night and their fight at the Don Haskins Center on Showtime

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