Whats next for Marco Antonio Barrera?
We’ll be putting our heads together and seeing if his next fight will be against WBC champion Humberto Soto for the Lightweight championship of the world. Or whether he needs yet one more 135-pound fight. We’ll have to see. But my inclination is that he’ll probably move into a fight with Humberto Soto. For the Mexicans, that would be a huge, huge fight to say the least. As opposed to a fight with WBA champion Miguel Acosta? Yes, the Humberto Soto fight would be as opposed to Acosta. Acosta’s a possibility, but Soto is a bigger fight for the Mexican fans. Can you talk about how the union between you and Marco Antonio Barrera came to fruition considering his past with rival promotional company, Gold Boy Promotions? Well, yeah. Juan Carlos, a guy who works with and is the cousin of Fernando Beltran, he’s a bright, young guy. And he is friendly with all of the fighters. Marco Antonio was apparently in conversation with Juan Carlos hinting that he would like to have Top Rank and Fernando’s
