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TMCNet: Marquez Set For Big Bout: First Fight Under Shaw on Saturday

[October 26, 2008]

Marquez Set For Big Bout: First Fight Under Shaw on Saturday

(Albuquerque Journal (NM) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 26--Like most meteoric rises, Archie Ray Marquez's was years in the making.

Last week, Marquez signed a four-year, 12-fight-minimum contract with national boxing promoter Gary Shaw. He's scheduled to make his debut as a Shaw contract fighter on Saturday in Carson, Calif.

For a 20-year-old from Seboyeta with only four professional fights on his resume, it's a major coup.

"We didn't expect it to happen so quick," said Jacob Maes, Marquez's manager. "So, yeah, we're ahead of schedule."

Yet, Maes said, the contract with Shaw is the culmination of efforts that began some eight years ago.

Marquez and Maes met through Albuquerque boxing trainer Luis Chavez, who trained Marquez as a young amateur.

"I used to go watch Luis train his fighters," Maes said. "I met (Marquez) there, and it turned out he and I were both from Seboyeta."

Maes actually grew up in Grants, some 15 miles north of Seboyeta. There, he was close friends with cousins of Marquez's grandfather, Archie. Sergio Chavez, Marquez's pro trainer, also is from Grants.

"It just turned out to be a small world," Maes said.

Maes began helping Marquez in his amateur career by raising money through raffles and garage sales, then hired him as a teenager to work in his Placitas utilities construction and maintenance business.

Later, Maes began managing professional fighters like Colorado veteran Elco Garcia -- in part to develop the experience and connections he would need to help Marquez when he eventually turned pro.

"I wanted to make contacts and build bridges," Maes said, "because I knew one day he'd be special."

Among Maes' new acquaintances was John Beninati, Shaw's matchmaker. Maes persuaded Beninati to put Marquez, at the time 3-0 with three knockouts, on the undercard of a Shaw-promoted card in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 11.

Marquez responded with a fourth-round knockout of Sam Morales, stopping the Minnesota fighter with a body shot.

"They were offering me a contract five minutes after the fight," Maes said. "... It was incredible; Archie was the best boxer on the card."

Maes' legwork, Marquez said, made his job easy.

"I don't know how long Jake had been talking to them, but it was all his doing," he said. "I just went out there and performed."

Shaw, in announcing he'd signed Marquez, called the young New Mexico junior lightweight "the whole package." He wouldn't be signing Marquez, Shaw said, if he didn't believe he had world-championship potential.

"As long as we're prepared," Maes said, "we can deal with anybody. Experience is all we lack."

Marquez (4-0, four knockouts) is scheduled to face Puerto Rican Alberto Amaro (4-1, one KO) in a four-rounder on the undercard of Saturday's show, which will be telecast on Showtime. The main event is a super flyweight world titleunification fight between Cristian Mijares and Shaw client Vic Darchinyan.

Marquez's fight is not scheduled to make the telecast in the U.S., but Maes said it probably will be seen around the world, as was Marquez's bout with Morales, on Showtime International.

ESQUIBEL STOPPED: Watsonville, Calif. native Carina Moreno has as much justification as anyone -- including Albuquerque's Holly Holm -- to call herself the world's best pound-for-pound women's boxer. Thursday night in Lemoore, Calif., Moreno (20-1, five KOs) scored an eighth-round TKO over Albuquerque's Jodie Esquibel in a minimumweight (105-pound) world title fight.

According to media reports, Esquibel (5-3-1, two KOs), Holm's teammate at Jackson-Winkeljohn mixed martial arts, had a good first round but had her nose bloodied and possibly broken in the second. The bleeding never stopped, and the slick, fast-handed Moreno dominated the rest of the bout before the end came.

MMA: With the demise of mixed martial arts promotional firm Elite X-C, Albuquerque MMA fighter Joey Villasenor is without a home.

Elite X-C filed for bankruptcy last Monday. Villasenor (26-6), an original Elite X-C contract fighter who fought under its banner five times, was to have challenged champion Robbie Lawler for that organization's middleweight title in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 8.

Now, said Mike Winkeljohn, Villasenor's standup coach, "He's unemployed. His manager is making phone calls, I guess like everybody else in Elite right now, and just seeing who's gonna pick him up.

"We don't know yet if it's gonna be Affliction or UFC. Everything's up in the air right now."

To see more of the Albuquerque Journal, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.abqjournal.com.

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