Barrera Not Ready to Say Goodbye, and Neither are We

Nearly 21 years ago, a teenager named Marco Antonio Barrera stepped through the ropes for the first time as a professional with a simple philosophy, one that had nothing to do with his middle class upbringing, the looks that earned him the nickname ?The Baby Faced Assassin?, or his dreams of one day becoming a lawyer. That would all get left at the steps leading into the ring in Mexico City, and as he told me in 2005, what happened in combat was akin to entering a different world, one where you …