Daniel Ponce De Leon Tickets

Daniel Ponce De Leon lost by technical decision at 1:24 of round eight to Yuriorkis Gamboa (21-0-0, 16 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round featherweight bout at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 10, 2011 in the main event on HBO. There was an accidental clash of heads in the 8th round which caused a deep cut above Ponce De Leon's left eye and on the advice of the ring doctor referee Allan Huggins stopped the contest. The fight went to the score cards. At the time of stoppage scores were 80-72, 80-72 and 79-73 for Gamboa. It wasn't a lopsided shutout. Ponce De Leon had taken some of Gamboa's best shots and was still coming forward with his own.

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Daniel Ponce De Leon

(41-4-0, 34 KOs)

Daniel Ponce De Leon, former member of the 2000 Mexican Olympic Team most notable fights have been his two with Sod Looknongyangtoy.

On October 29, 2005 Daniel Ponce De Leon won the vacant WBO super bantamweight title by a 12-round unanimous decision in an extremely hard fought fight against Sod Looknongyangtoy. Ponce De Leon was down in round two but the Mexican fighter has a lot of heart and went on to win the bout.

Ponce De Leon vs Looknongyangtoy II

Ringside Las Vegas: In a rematch on July 15, 2006 on the Mosley-Vargas II undercard Daniel Ponce De Leon knocked out Sod Looknongyangtoy in only 52 seconds of round one. Ponce De Leon hit Looknongyangtoy with a straight left to the jaw that sent Sod face down on the canvas out cold. Ponce De Leon won special recognition as KO Artist for his Sod Looknongyangtoy knockout at the WBO 2006 Awards.

On October 21, 2006 the aggressive hard punching southpaw brawler Daniel Ponce De Leon relentlessly attacked his opponent Al Seeger. Ponce De Leon beat Seeger down for eight rounds until Seeger's corner threw in the towel. Seeger was down in the 4th round and penalized for holding in the 8th. Ponce De Leon walked out of the ring a winner holding both the WBO & IBA super bantamweight titles.

In a competitive fight on March 17, 2007 on the Barrera-Marquez undercard, Daniel Ponce De Leon won an unpopular 12-round unanimous decision over Gerry Penalosa. The busier fighter, Ponce De Leon threw three times as many punches as Penalosa, but landed only 18% to the more accurate puncher, Penalosa's 36%.

Ponce De Leon vs Bautista

Ponce De Leon banged out an impressive 1st round TKO over Rey Bautista at the Mexico vs Philippines World Cup of Boxing in Sacramento, California on Saturday, August 11, 2007. Ponce De Leon sent Bautista, who was coming off a unanimous decision win over Sergio Manuel Medina, down with a hard left that wobbled Bautista who made it up after a long count only to be finished off seconds later at 2:30 of round one.

Daniel Ponce De Leon, just forty-eight days after an impressive 1st round TKO over Rey Bautista dropped Reynaldo Lopez with a devastating straight left at 2:39 in round five on Friday, September 28, 2007 at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon, California. It was the first fight of a multi-fight deal between Oscar De la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions and the Morongo Casino.

Daniel Ponce De Leon beat Eduardo Escobedo by 12-round unanimous decision on the Mayweather-Hatton undercard on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was Ponce De Leon's 6th successful WBO super bantamweight title defense since winning the vacant title on October 29, 2005 in fight with Sod Looknongyangtoy.

On Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Daniel Ponce De Leon lost to Puerto Rican Juan Manuel Lopez (22-0, 19 KOs) by way of 1st round TKO. Heavy underdog Lopez knocked down Ponce De Leon twice in round one. Although Ponce De Leon made it up both times the referee stopped the fight at 2:25 of round one. In addition Ponce De Leon lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Lopez.

Ponce De Leon beat Damian David Marchiano (15-6-1, 5 KOs) from Argentina by 4th round knockout on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at the Gimnasio Manuel Bernardo Aguirre in Chihuahua, Mexico. It was Ponce De Leon's first fight back since losing his WBO super bantamweight title by 1st round knockout to Juan Manuel Lopez in June 2008.

On Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Ponce De Leon beat Antonio Escalante (24-3-0, 15 KOs) by 3rd round KO in a WBO featherweight title eliminator fight. Ponce De Leon sent Escalante flat on his back on the canvas with a left-right combination to the jaw. Referee Tony Crebs stopped the fight without a count.

Daniel Ponce De Leon lost a poorly scored fight to undefeated Adrien Broner (20-0-0, 16 KOs) of Cincinnati, Ohio by 10-round unanimous decision in a super featherweight fight on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Ponce De Leon was the aggressor and busier fighter throughout the bout, Broner choose to stay on the outside pot shooting throwing single punches accompanied by annoying vocalizations. It was a close fight but Harold Letterman's unofficial score of 96-94 was right on but the judges saw it another way scoring it 94-96, 94-96 and 91-99. Most observers had Ponce De Leon winning at least 6 of the 10 rounds and Broner only winning 4 rounds.