Luis Coria Is coming off a pair of unanimous decision wins, one in 2021 and the other just this last August in San Bernardino. Coria is looking to do it again when he returns to San Bernardino on October 7. Coria, from Riverside, trains at the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy, is a very capable fighter who has hit a few bumps–and even broken his jaw–during his fight career, leaving him with a current record of 14 wins, 5 losses, and 0 draws (14-5-0).
Coria’s debut fight was on September 30, 2016 at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, a fight he won by KO. He would go onto win his next 3 fights, 2 of them by KO, before he would suffer his first loss in Carson on October 14, 2017 to Percy Peterson (2-14-3). Peterson’s record aside, no matter how one thinks a fight is likely to go, anything can happen in the ring, and Peterson demonstrated that by tagging Coria and sending him to the mat in the first round. While Coria was able to get up and go the full 4 rounds, a unanimous decision win went to Percy, with all 3 judges scoring it 37-38 in his favor.
Between December 2017 to July 2018, Coria would rebound with a 5 fight winning streak, one by KO, the others by unanimous decision. Then on November 17, 2018, Coria (9-1-0) would get another loss at Casino Del Sol in Tucson, this time to Thomas Valdez (17-3-2), by split decision. Following that Loss, Coria ran a 3 fight winning streak throughout 2019, all by KO. Then along came the pandemic, but Coria was fortunate to get a fight on a Top Rank card at The Bubble. June 11, 2020, Coria (12-2-0) was brought in as the opponent against Adam Lopez (13-2-0) for the vacant NABF Featherweight belt. Despite Lopez fighting a somewhat lackluster fight, he nevertheless was granted a split decision win.
Then on October 31, 2020, Top Rank would again tap Coria for another fight in The Bubble, this time against Robson Conceicao (14-0-0), During the 10 round fight, Coria would down Conceicao once in round 2, then Conceicao would have point deductions in both rounds 4 and 6 for low blows. In the end, the judges scored the fight 93-94, 92-95, and 92-95, all in favor of Conceicao.
Top Rank offered Coria (12-4-0) yet another fight, this time at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas, against Enrique Vivas, (20-1-0). For Top Rank, this was the first post pandemic fight outside The Bubble with the return of a live audience. On May 22, 2021, after 8 rounds of action the judges scored the fight in favor of Vivas, all 3 calling it 75-74. But it was not simply a hard-fought, closely scored fight. One would be remiss if they also failed to observe that Coria sent Vivas down to the canvas twice in round 3, and Vivas also had a point deduction for a low blow in round 4. I’m not the one necesarily suggesting it was a controversial decision and that Coria was robbed of a win, but it would not surprise me if he, his team, and others may have felt that sentiment.
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