The last time Daniel Ponce de Leon faced an opponent who held advantages in speed and quickness was on the night of March 5th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, when he squared off against Adrien Broner. After ten rounds, many observers believed that the hardnosed Mexican southpaw had done more than enough to win. Instead, he was on the short side of what was a controversial verdict that evening.
While the official record has the fight down as his third professional loss (against 41 victories), Ponce de Leon and his team put that fight in the ?W? column.
“I felt I won,” Ponce de Leon said through interpreter Marco Lopez, last week before his days work at the Maywood Boxing Club, “I feel he didn?t do anything to me. I felt I was landing the punches and I feel I won that fight. Everybody knows I won and don?t even count that fight as a loss. That fight gave me a lot of experience though.”
