![]() On January 13, 2019, he took on former champion Moises Flores at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.įlores (25-1, 17 KOs) stood 5-foot-9, and had dethroned the aforementioned Escandon as interim champion by split-decision in April 2015. It was his fourth straight stoppage win.įigueroa continued his ascent. Then on September 30, he took a major step up in class, facing former champion Oscar Escandon at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.įigueroa overcame a cut over his left eye from a third-round headbutt to drop and stop the Colombian in the 10th round of a toe-to-toe battle. On August 4 of that year, he stopped previously unbeaten Luis Roy Suarez Cruz in 84 seconds. He rose to 15-0 (10 KOs) on March 10, 2018, scoring a seventh-round TKO of Mexico’s Giovanni Delgado at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.ĭelgado marked Figueroa’s first of three fights in 2018. ![]() Flores: Janu(PBC on FS1) EARNING RESPECTįigueroa moved quickly through the ranks. ![]() He won a unanimous decision over Hector Gutierrez at The State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.įigueroa vs. The name has stuck.”įollowing a brief amateur career comprised of going 33-17 and winning “a local Silver Gloves tournament when he was 8 or 9,” according to Omar Sr., Brandon made his professional debut with on May 9, 2015. “From then on, whenever we went there, this group of girls in the bleachers would go, ‘Oh my God, the heartbreaker’s here.’ I’ve been the ‘Heartbreaker’ since then. He’s a heartbreaker,’” said the younger Figueroa, a power-punching, switch-hitter with matinee idol looks and blue eyes. These older girls said, ‘Man, that kid is handsome. “My Dad says I was fighting another kid to give the fans a show. Older brother, Omar Jr., who was 14 at the time, was competing in the same tournament. “The Heartbreaker.” That’s what a group of preteen girls used to call seven-year-old Brandon Figueroa the first time he put on a pair of gloves to box in an exhibition in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico-a town just across the border from his hometown of Weslaco, Texas. #blessingsonblessings #blessed #heartbreaker #teamfigueroa #boxingĪ post shared by Brandon Lee Figueroa on at 2:31pm PDT A FITTING MONIKER Thanks to god and everyone for making this possible. What a blessing to have received another yet another recognition, this time by the State of Texas.
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