After fighting Luciano Perez I received the news that my next fight was going to be 8 rounds. I was excited to take the next step in the boxing world. I was scheduled to fight Gilbert Venegas, but he got injured in fighting a month before our fight and had to pull out. That same night, my long time nemesis Jesse Feliciano surprised the boxing community by beating ex-World Champion Vince Phillips. The morning after, I got a call by Gary asking me if I wanted to fight him for a third time. I immediately said yes, because I had beating this guy twice, except that on one occasion the judges gave him win. This was the chance to settle the scores.

On fight night, I walked into the ring confident that I was once again he bigger and stronger guy. I had seen him fight and I knew he hadn't improved his skills. For myself, I thought I had grown mentally, physically, and skillfully. For the first three rounds of the fight I out boxed him and hit him with every punch that I threw. Also, on the fourth round I was giving him a boxing clinic, however, mid way through the round my legs gave out. And had no choice but to bang with him. It seemed he got stronger and stronger, I felt weaker and tired. There was a moment in the 6th round when I was leaning on the ropes when I thought "Damn, we still got three more rounds to go! Is this guy going to stop me?" At that same moment, the Mexican in me said..."Hell no!" and I reached deep down and gathered strength from within. From then on, I battled with all my strength. After 8 rounds, I wasn't pleased with my performance; however, I knew I had the victory.

The TV announcer who had me winning on the scorecards said, "what ever the result is, these boxers need to get medical attention, because this was one of the most grueling wars we've had in a long time." After a few moments the verdict was announced and it was declared a draw. After a third time around, the scores were still tied. In my heart I believe I've beaten Feliciano every time we've faced each other, but to the boxing world the scores are still not settled.