"I never hit him low."
Plain and simple, right?
Well, not so fast.
The new IBF Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares was a guest on the Ring TV Radio show today discussing the fight and said to hosts Michael Rosenthal and Doug Fischer, "That 11th round knockdown, the lowblow, obviously was by far way off. I didn't mean to hit him down there, I went for a bodyshot, I was aiming for the body and I went low and the ref started counting."
"I thought he was gonna take a point away from me."
Of course Abner, we all did, which made your post-fight comment to Jim Grey all that much more exasperating and hard to take seriously. So which is it Abner? You never hit him low as you told Jim Grey or you expected a point to be taken away when Agbeko went down from the lowblow? There is much to admire and respect Abner Mares as a fighter but that's an obvious contradiction and one that Mares has no real way of getting around.
Hit play below for the full audio of Mares discussing the 11th round.
