Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-11-25, some good exchanges between Sullivan Barrera and Felix Valera but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.Sullivan Barrera entered this fight with a boxing record of 20-1-0 (14 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.4 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Adonis Stevenson). He lost to former #1 Andre Ward last year (=Ward vs Barrera) but then he has beat Vyacheslav Shabranskyy (=Shabranskyy vs Barrera), Paul Parker (=Barrera vs Parker) and Joe Smith Jr (=Smith Jr vs Barrera).
His opponent, the former interim Wba light-Hw champion Felix Valera, has an official record of 15-1-0 (13 KOs=87%) and he entered as the No.50 in the same weight class. He also lost once in 2016, against Dmitry Bivol (=Bivol vs Valera), but then he has won over Gusmyr Perdomo and Andy Perez. Barrera vs Valera is on the undercard of Sergey Kovalev vs Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2017-11-25
Where: Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Barrera’s previous fight: Joe Smith Jr vs Sullivan Barrera
Barrera’s next fight: Dmitry Bivol vs Sullivan Barrera
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Barrera vs Valera full fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
Official highlights
Entertaining fight between a boxer with an excellent amateur career against to one with a very unconventional style but with good punching power too. Skills prevailed but also because Valera shown symptoms of early fatigue diminishing his competitiveness at large.