Former WBC and WBO Super Bantamweight Champion Stephen ‘Cool Boy Steph’ Fulton Jr. (22-1, 8 costs) says he’s more ‘intelligent’ than WBC Featherweight Champion Brandon Figueroa (25-1-1, 19 COs) , and it will carry him to a win in their re-broadcast this Saturday night on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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Four years after their first fight on November 27, 2021, Fulton (30) and Figueroa will meet for the second time on the bottom map of David Banavidez against David Morrell. The event will be displayed directly on PBC on Prime video Ppv.
Fulton ended Figueroa and won a 12-round decision in a razor. However, things have changed since then. The rematch will be at 130 rather than 122, and Fulton is knocked out and injured. He doesn’t look like the same fighter as when he beat Figueroa.
Naoya Inoue upset Fulton on July 25, 2023, in an eighth round in Tokyo, Japan. The power of Inoue made the fight completely one -sided. In Fulton’s last battle against Carlos Castro, he was surprisingly dropped in the fifth round and had to move and hold to survive.
The youth and power of Figueroa can give him the lead in this struggle because he is now striking harder than in the first fight. If Fulton can no longer get a punch, it will be an early evening. This may be anyway because Figueroa has improved.
‘Being a world champion of two divisions would mean a lot to my career and mean a lot to me. I had a good preparation for this fight and everything is on track to be prepared on Saturday night. I’m going to be ready.
“My mind, my body and how I feel in this ring will be different this time, but the result will be the same. I will overcome and I will leave no doubt. I am not worried about anything other than winning.
“We’re both going to be better this time, but I feel like I’m the better man. I am more intelligent in the ring and feel like I have a better skill set. When I use these things, it all ends up my way. “
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