Tyson of course was a bad bass hvy. Torres was a MW most of his career. Not sure why Torres, in his second fight as LtHvy, got a title shot a Champion Pastrano (& won) Torres went on to defeat Hvyweight Tom McNeely, then defended Lthvy Title against Thorton, Calderwood, & Cotton, before losing his Title against Tiger, and lost the rematch too. His next fight was against Bob Dunlop, and then finished his boxing career against Charley "Devil" Green in which The Devil Green was a 15-minute substitute prior to the Garden’s opening contest. Green was plucked out of the fans attending when Jimmy Ralston mysteriously backed out at the last minute claiming an arm injury. Torres overall record was 41-3-1, with 29 k.o.'s. 1964-11-27 : Bobo Olson 176 lbs lost to Jose Torres 170½ lbs by KO at 2:51 in round 1 of 10 Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA Referee: Johnny LoBianco Ring Magazine Round of the Year "Jose Torres, making his first start as a light heavyweight, scored a stunning 1st round knockout of Bobo Olson Friday night. The end came with shocking abruptness at 2:51 of the 1st of a scheduled 10 rounder. Olson appeared to be moving along nicely. Then Torres opened up a flashing, two-handed flurry. Olson looked up into the midst of it, a left hand caught him flush on the chin and it was over. He was on his knees in an almost prayerful pose in front of referee Johnny Lobianco when the count reached ten." -Associated Press Post fight comment "I got him with a left to the ribs and I hurt him. I heard him go, 'Ohhhh.' Then I opened up with a left-right-left. I knew it was all over." -Jose Torres
Plucked out of the fans attending?? So he had no time to prepare for the fight besides maybe a quick warm up??
Appears not. Good point. Boxing legend material stuff. LOL !!! More Devil Green vs Torres "stuff": Green had just smoked a reefer and was enjoying a hot dog and beer, when he got the call to go up and duke it out with Torres. http://www.thesweetscience.com/articles-of-2005/2568-the-devil-and-charlie-devil-green
Same thing happened to Tim Tomashek against Tommy Morrison. Tomashek was in attendance watching the fight to celebrate his birthday when the promoters asked him to step in.
great info..Tahnks. " This content is protected In Milwaukee History This content is protected Green Bay's Tim Tomashek fought for the heavyweight title of the world 20 years ago. 20 years ago Tomashek was pulled off the couch for a title fight This content is protected Special to OnMilwaukee.com Twenty years ago this month, Tim Tomashek's 15-minute allotment of fame stretched into a week or so. If he wanted to, the Green Bay native could still be drawing interest on that, especially in the bars where the man known as "Doughboy" was a bona-fide blue-collar hero. But Tomashek doesn't drink much nowadays, and he would just as soon fly under the radar anyway, the way he did until the night of Aug. 30, 1993, when he became the only Wisconsinite to ever fight for the heavyweight championship because the guy who was supposed to be in the challenger's corner was even more afraid of the mandatory pre-fight drug test than he was of champion Tommy Morrison and took a powder 40 minutes before fight time. From 1987 until then, Tomashek, a four-time state Golden Gloves champion, had happily plied the Midwestern tank-town circuit, where thanks to the absence of rigorous regulatory oversight almost anyone with a pulse qualified to climb through the ropes and call himself a fighter. As a result, Doughboy – he was into beer then, and it showed – compiled a 35-10 record. Though more impressive on paper than in reality, the impresarios of the World Boxing Organization considered it a respectable enough fig-leaf to make Tomashek a suitable replacement challenger in the title fight broadcast to millions on ESPN from Kansas City. Up to 1990, the highlight of Tomashek's career was losing a 12-round decision in a fight for the heavyweight championship of Indiana. A year later, he traveled to France and lost to future cruiserweight champion Anaclet Wamba. "They tricked me," explained Tomashek about the latter defeat. "Free wine on the plane!" The Green Bay heavyweight had no illusions about why he was tapped to step in against Morrison. "They figured, 'Hey, Tomashek likes to get the crap kicked out of him, but he hangs in there,'" he says. Handier with a punch-line than a punch, afterwards Tomashek joked that he'd trained for the fight by using a Stairmaster and letting the guys with whom he worked in the warehouse at ShopKo in Green Bay "beat me up." Against Morrison, who'd beaten George Foreman for the WBO title and whose assets included a 36-1 record with 32 knockouts and his role as "Tommy Gunn" in the 1989 Sylvester Stallone film "Rocky V," Tomashek's most memorable moment occurred in the second round when he got the champ in a headlock and then administered the only noogie ever used in a heavyweight title fight. He'd entered the ring to the song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," and the 21-pounds heavier Morrison did plenty of that, knocking Tomashek down and almost closing his eyes before the ringside doctor called off the fight after the fourth round. Luckily, Morrison's fire was concentrated on Tomashek's gourd. "If he'd hit me in the guts I'd have vomited on him," says Doughboy. "I had a few brews before" the fight, when he thought he'd just be a spectator. His performance didn't endear him to the boxing cognoscenti. more: https://onmilwaukee.com/history/articles/timtomashek.html
I thought Tomashek was hysterically funny in the postfight interview. Made me a fan. Worth watching if you haven't.
Spinks was on another level from Torres and would stop him late. But having said that, Torres is very underrated and was an excellent fighter.
I think Spinks lays "The Jinx" on Torres (similar to the Marvin Johnson fight) and stops Jose early. I'll never forget the night Tomashek fought Morrison. That was so bizarre. Probably the last time a challenger simply failed to appear for a title fight, too. Mike Williams was the no-show. How he got the title shot, I have no idea. He fought like three weeks earlier and had been knocked out by Alex Garcia earlier that year. Bizarre.
