On Aug. 15, 2015 in front of a raucous audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Abner Mares (30-2, 15 KOs) and Leo Santa Cruz (33-1, 18 KOs) slugged it out for the vacant WBA (super) featherweight title. From the get go onwards to finish line the top featherweights enthralled a crowd of 13,109 with intense, heated, toe-to-toe, none-stop action fight. When the smoke of battle cleared, Leo Sta. Cruz eked out a hard-fought victory on majority decision. It was a very close fight an immediate talk of a rematch was brought out. But the said rematch wouldn't take place until the WBA has ordered the two opposing camps to start sitting across the negotiating table.