Anyone else on here a fan of his? I recently acquired his fight with Robin Blake. Well that fight made me fan for sure....The only other fight I have of his besides the Blake fight is the Camacho fight. Whats everyone's opinion of him and does anyone have anymore of his fights?
Terrific left hook. Very strong. Dropped Buddy McGirt when McGirt was at his very best, and that wasn't easy to do. I can't be a fan of his, however. I remember seeing an intervies with him before the McGirt fight where he was explaining his recent incarceration. He was apparently at the wheel drunk when he crashed the car, killing a friend and two other motorists in a car coming the other way. During the interview, he lamented the death of his friend and not once mentioned the other two innocent lives he took. That really rubbed me the wrong way. ...........Sorry, that was kind of random.
I had no knowledge of that. I researched him on wikipedia and found out he started a charity for sick kids, because his 6-year old son died from a rare disease. Two sides to every coin I guess.....I'd love to see the Mcgirt fight.
.............You're absolutely right man. For all I know, the interview could have been cut short as far as the cameras were concerned, and he could have gone on and on about the victims of that crash, and I was remiss for not mentioning that in my earlier post. That is entirely possible. I'm glad to hear that about the charity. That makes me feel a bit better. I guess I'm just reacting from a purely instinctive feel from what I saw in that interview. I suppose without actually sitting dwn with the guy and hearing what he has to say in its non-edited entirety, I shouldn't be too quick to judge.
His best fight if you ever come across is versus Howard Davis Jr. Baltazar had his down, I believe twice & Davis still got the decision. Baltazar was a nobody & that performance brought him into the picture. I believ this is correct. I do know that in his first big bout, He won the fight & lost the decision. His next telivised fight he lost & got the decision. Go figure boxing! His brother Frankie Baltazar was actually a contender also, but was put in too fast against Bazooka Limon. Baltazar was knocked out & never quite recovered. Both grew up here in La Puente, California Time to time You still see Frankie Around town. But I believe Tony moved away.
I said he had a left hook at lightweight as powerful as Frazier's was at heavyweight. I stand by it, solidly :smoke
Man this takes me back to when I was first following boxing avidly in the early and mid 80s. Baltazar and Blake were two of the exciting fighters of that era who fought pretty regularly on network TV or ESPN.
i think i remember his fight with rodney moore who was coming up at the time. dropped moore twice but lost a UD.
His Father/Trainer is a regular poster at cyberboxingzone.com he's posted alot of articles and pictures from Tony and Frank"s career in fact he has a whole thread devoted to both his son's career's he posts under the name KIKIBALT seem's like a cool guy and knows alot of boxing history
Baltazar had one of those left hooks which could be used for textbook instruction on how to deliver one. Howard Davis Jr. was supported by pretty influential backing, so Tony would have had to kayo Howard to win. But the fact remains that his hook dropped the fastest man in boxing at the time, hardly an achievement which could have been realized with a telegraphed shot.
Tony's left hook came to him naturally, he didn't need much work to developed it as he was a converted southpaw. His right hand was the one he had trouble with.