The rise of a legend

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  1. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  2. TheBradyHawkes

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    Speed to burn :thumbsup
     
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  3. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Speed AND skill.

    I also admire Limon. This is a classic case of the young over the old. Rafael was a washed up old man who was outclassed by a younger opponent on the rise but he just continued to shake off the pain each time he was dropped.
     
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  4. laxpdx

    laxpdx Boxing Addict Full Member

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    A very enjoyable piece of "macho time". I'm starting to love Hector's speed clinics as much as watching Tony Ayala KO's....
     
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  5. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    i so prefer this...

    This content is protected
     
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  6. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    ................As long as he was matched correctly, he was gold.


    It's a familiar tale.
     
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  7. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Still suprised put Limon away like that. Limon was a tough, tough son of a *****.
     
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  8. JohnThomas1

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    Yes, but the Camacho stoppage was much more a case of Limon finally not being able to take it anymore. The wars, the slugfests, they finally caught up with him. Just the fight before he and Chacon went toe to toe in a WAR. It was the 1982 fight of the year. It was also the end of Limon. He was stopped two of his next three and never was a force at all again.

    Good stoppage tho, but Camacho was no stoppage artist, especially of anyone with a chin.
     
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  9. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  10. Bill Butcher

    Bill Butcher Erik`El Terrible`Morales Full Member

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    Good vid, Camacho was very fast in his younger days, a bit of a cocky little **** but good fighter.

    He did however get his ass handed to him by the great Julio cesar Chavez, that was a masterclass in how to beat up a faster fighter for 12 rds alright.
     
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  11. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    you're talking 9 years after Camacho-limon. How much speed could he have left?
     
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  12. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Hector Camacho. The best pure boxer of the last 40 years.
     
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  13. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Theres a man named Pernell Whitaker that would strongly disagree with that.
     
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    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Camacho was way past it when he fought Chavez. Julio would have beaten him in his prime also, but Hector would have been more competitive.
     
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  15. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    I don't know about that.
     
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