{"id":8733,"date":"2025-07-20T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8733\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:38:13","slug":"brandon-figueroa-wins-questionable-unanimous-decision-over-joet-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8733\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Figueroa Wins Questionable Unanimous Decision Over Joet Gonzalez"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2014 Brandon Figueroa<\/a> tried to go back to the swarming style Saturday night that served the former two-division champion well before his decisive defeat to Stephen Fulton in their rematch five months ago.<\/a>
Joet Gonzalez<\/a> made that as difficult on Figueroa as possible on the Manny Pacquiao-Mario Barrios undercard.<\/p>\n

The determined underdog got off to a strong start, landed more flush punches during inside exchanges for three-quarters of their bout and forced Figueroa to rally late in their 12-round featherweight fight. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Gonzalez appeared to have built enough of a lead to withstand Figueroa\u2019s solid showing in the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds, but judges Tim Cheatham (116-112), Chris Migliore (115-113) and David Sutherland (116-112) all scored their Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view opener for the latter.<\/p>\n

According to CompuBox\u2019s unofficial punch stats, Figueroa landed 17 more punches overall than Gonzalez (282 of 1,071 to 265 of 821).<\/p>\n

Figueroa and Gonzalez hammered away at each other from close distances and landed almost exclusively power punches. CompuBox credited Gonzalez with landing only seven jabs, four more than Figueroa.<\/p>\n

They also combined to throw more punches \u2014 1,892 \u2014 than any other fight tracked by CompuBox in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A second straight loss would\u2019ve been a significant setback for Figueroa (26-2-1, 19 KOs), a former unified 122-pound champion and ex-WBC featherweight titleholder.<\/p>\n

He switched trainers \u2014 from his father, Omar Figueroa Sr., to Manny Robles \u2014 after Fulton defeated him by unanimous decision in their second fight Feb. 1 at nearby T-Mobile Arena. He also started training in the Los Angeles area, as opposed to his hometown of Weslaco, Texas, because Figueroa felt he needed a change of scenery to rejuvenate his career.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez (27-5, 15 KOs) seemingly deserved better than losing eight rounds apiece on two scorecards in a fight contested almost exclusively on the inside. Instead, the Glendora, California, native settled for his third decision defeat in his past five fights. <\/p>\n

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Brandon Figueroa tried to go back to the swarming style Saturday night that served the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}