Thursday September 15 2011. @ County Coliseum, El Paso, Texas,
USA
Result Antonio Escalante W Pipino Cuevas Jr TKO 1R - super
featherweight
Friday March 25 2011. @ Sports Center, Fairfield, California, United
States
Result Antonio Escalante L Alejandro Perez KO 1R -
featherweight
Saturday September 18 2010. @ Staples Center, Los Angeles,
California, USA
Result Daniel Ponce de Leon W Antonio Escalante KO 3R -
featherweight
Friday August 6 2010. @ Don Haskins Convention Center, El Paso,
Texas USA
Result Edel Ruiz L Antonio Escalante KO 3R - featherweight
Friday February 26 2010. @ Don Haskins Convention Center, El
Paso, Texas, USA
Result Miguel Roman L Antonio Escalante UD 10R -
featherweight
Friday October 30 2009. @ Don Haskins Convention Center, El Paso,
Texas, USA
Result Antonio Escalante W Carlos Fulgencio KO 2R - super
featherweight
Friday July 24 2009. @ Don Haskins Convention Center, El Paso,
Texas, USA
Result Antonio Escalante W Cornelius Lock UD 10R -
featherweight
Friday April 24 2009. @ UIC Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result Gary Stark Jr L Antonio Escalante KO 3R - super
bantamweight
Friday October 24 2008. @ Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon,
California, USA
Result Mike Oliver L Antonio Escalante KO 3R - super
bantamweight
Friday May 16 2008. @ Morongo Casino Resort, Cabazon, CA, USA
Result Antonio Escalante W David Martinez TKO 3R - Super
Bantamweight
Friday February 8 2008. @ The Castle, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result Jose Angel Beranza L Antonio Escalante UD 10R - Super
Bantamweight |
Lessons Learned
Escalante said he grew more and more confused
with the different training styles. He simply did not
click with his new trainers. He went into the ring ...
well, not himself, and not someone new and
transformed and improved, either.
"The two months in Houston were the worst," he
said. "Ronnie Shields is a great trainer. But I only
worked with him for a week. He went to a fight
and turned me over to his assistant. Nothing went
right from there. I didn't like being away from my
family and I didn't like being away from my
hometown. I couldn't work the mitts right with him.
By the time we got to the fight it was all wrong. I
told everyone I was ready and I lied to them all. I
wasn't ready."
Escalante said his wife, Maria, came out for the
fight and saw how wrong it had all gone before he
even left his locker room.
"Even the way they wrapped my hands was
wrong," he said. "The wraps were way too tight.
My fingers were purple. Then the gloves felt too
tight. My wife saw. I told her I felt great and she
said 'don't lie to me.' She told me to make them
re-wrap my hands. But I just wasn't right --
mentally or physically ... especially mentally. I just
wanted to get the fight over. She finally just went
off to the side and sat down. She could see
everything was wrong."
Escalante is back training in his own gym in
Downtown El Paso. He is back with his wife and
two young daughters. He is trying to shrug off the
storm that hit his career, trying to gain a vision of
that dream again. He said he will move up to 130
pounds, that he might have a fight in late July or
more probably in early August.
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