“Barby” Juarez comes out victorious in her penultimate professional fight; defeated Japanese Tomomi Takano

Mexican Mariana 'Barby' Juarez, a 45-year-old veteran, defeated Japanese Tomomi Takano by unanimous decision and retained the World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight silver belt in the penultimate fight of her career.

'Barby', who had her first professional fight in 1998, won all three scorecards by 100-90.

With the result, Juarez has 58 wins, 20 by knockout, 13 losses and four draws; Takano, 38, has now recorded 14 wins, nine by knockout, six losses, and one draw.

The last fight in the career of Mariana Juarez, a historic figure in Mexican women's boxing, will take place next year in an event organized by the WBC on the esplanade of the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City.

'Barby' was aggressive from the start of the fight. She didn't allow the Japanese to maintain the distance thanks to her height of 1.73 meters against the 1.67 of the Mexican, who punished the body and looked for with the right hook to hurt her opponent's face.

The capital city native maintained peace in the second round with repetitions to the face of a Takano who fainted her guard on a couple of occasions to provoke Mariana.

Tomomi, who also dedicates herself to modeling, insisted on her mocking posture and marked smile in the third and fourth rounds against the repetitive jab and blows to the body of Juarez.

In the fifth round, 'Barby', despite the lack of speed due to her experience, entered with hooks and straights on the face of the Tokyo-born, who kept her gloves tied.

The Asian boxer finally released a couple of right hooks and some left hands in the sixth that did little damage to his opponent.

Mariana Juarez opened Takano's lip with a powerful left-handed straight that left her staggering in the seventh.

Barby's demolition work intensified in the eighth. Lefts to the face and repetitions to the body against an opponent who desperately looked for the tie to stop the punishment.

In the ninth,The Mexican hit Tomomi,who miraculously stayed on her feet and came out in the tenth to throw like she hadn't done throughout the fight, but Juarez responded to signal her victory.

"She used a lot of hugs, it was complicated for us, but we got the best punches," said Mariana Juarez at the end of the fight, who wants her compatriot Jackie Nava, one of her most bitter rivals in the professional world, for her farewell fight.

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