PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS

The Alamo City gets pair of loaded boxing events this summer.

Mario Barrios never backed down in his first fight of 2022.

Mario Barrios and Jesse Rodriguez are ready for their first fight of 2022.

San Antonio's Mario Barrios met face-to-face with Keith Thurman before their PPV fight on Saturday.

Weslaco’s Brandon “Heartbreaker” Figueroa, the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion, scored a 7th-round knockout of Luis Nery in the main event of Saturday night’s Premier Boxing Champions event on Showtime. Figueroa (22-0-1, 17 KOs) retains his WBA World Super Bantamweight Championship and wins Nery’s WBC World Super Bantamweight title. He was trying to box me, I knew he wasn’t going to stay in there battling me,” Figueroa said. '”Next for Figueroa is a title unification bout against Stephen Fulton Jr. (19-0, 8 KOs), the World Boxing Organization World Super Bantamweight Champion on Showtime on Sept. 11 later this year. I knew I had to get through Luis Nery and I did just that,” Figueroa said.