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DeMarco Doesn't Offer
Excuses
Former interim WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco
(23-2-1, 17KO) offered no excuses once he touched down in
his hometown of Tijuana, MX, Sunday afternoon, for his loss
against the now full-fledged WBC king Edwin Valero (27-0,
27KO) last Saturday night in Monterrey, MX.
"I don't have an exact response to what happened because I
don't know. I can't explain why my body didn't respond,"
DeMarco said. "I do admit that in front of me I had a great
champion, there is nothing to discuss."
"At one point of the fight, I couldn't execute our game
plan," the 24-year-old DeMarco added. "I tried to go
toe-to-toe but Valero was intelligent. He deserved to win."
DeMarco mentioned that his trainer, Romulo Quirarte, wanted
to stop the fight at the end of the eighth but that he
begged for another chance. Once Quirarte saw that DeMarco
couldn't better his performance, he stopped the fight.
"There is no excuses, Valero was the winner and there is
nights when things don't go your way," DeMarco stated. "I
promised my wife and daughter that I am going to be a world
champion and this isn't going to stop me. I have gotten up
from worse."
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