He's just the second best 105'er to ever lace em up. Blinding quickness and great IQ with longevity not often paralleled near those low weight classes. Then moved up to 108 with big fights versus Cazares, among the biggest weight discrepancies ever, picked up the lineal title there. He then definitely slowed down around that time. He was something like 20-0-1 in title fights before his first loss. I still haven't seen a bout I found more breathtaking than his first fight with Segura since it happened in 2010. Dude was just a beast.
Great info, thanks. What was with the string of fights with Rodel Mayol? Was that a diminished Calderon, or was what I heard about Mayol being a no good dirty ******* in the ring true?
Istvan Kovacs never did much in the pros so he is basically unknown for most boxing fans. However, he was a great amateur and it is obvious that he had some solid skills. This content is protected
I think Narvaez can be considered a 'great'; he had a truly excellent career for a lower weight class before fighting inoue approaching 40 years old.
i remember watching him when he turned pro. he was a house hold in his home country and sky was the limit for him..until he got his first loss. that was the end for his pro career basicly.
Universum didn't want to invest money in him after his loss, he was fighting in a small weight class and that didn't help his case in Germany. His ultimate goal was to fight Naseem Hamed, he was Hamed's mandatory but Hamed vacated the title and took on Barrera instead and lost, and his career was over as well after that.
On a British level, Colin McMillan was a very skilled and talented boxer, not a puncher at all, it was all boxing, he did win the WBO featherweight world title then lost it in his first defence when he dislocated his shoulder. He is never really talked about, sad really because he did win a world title and I believe he was very skilled and had a really easy on the eye style.
It's a shame some guys never even really get a fair shake at succeeding in boxing even though they put in as much work as anyone.
Herol Graham springs to mind. The rumours were Hagler was very wary to take him on because of his unconventional slickness. But when he stepped up to world title level he always came up short, spectacularly so against Julian Jackson...