On the subject of the hot mic moment, one has to check out the second fight between Maurice Hope and Rocky Mattioli. Howard Cosell was...
Jack O'Halloran wore the best full Fu Manchu.
Rocky Lockridge v Dennis Cruz Y'know, the crowd didn't really care for this fight and neither did Ferdie Pacheco - not that that bothered me -...
Sal, I love it that you viewed this fight but I wish you could have seen a prime Tury. He was all excitement with an absolutely deadly left hook...
Of course he could. The one thing Bug always had was a world class jaw and body and the frame to make things difficult for anyone. The one thing...
Oh, man. Thought to myself, the last of those great old 70's heavyweights. But then I thought, as someone else mentioned, Holmes is still around...
Jose Napoles v Ernie 'Indian Red' Lopez II (welterweight title) (California scoring) Round 1: Napoles Round 2: Napoles Round 3: Napoles Round 4:...
There are 3 that I find to be head-scratchers. 1) The first one is clearly to my own ignorance. I'm unclear on South African scoring back in the...
It's funny you mentioned the Urkal fight because I just watched it last night. Like you said, he gave back but just never felt he was going to do...
Checked out a couple of Miguel Cotto bouts today. Cotto, whom I always enjoyed, was rarely in a bad one. Miguel Cotto v Muhammad Abdullaev (jr....
Diego Rosario was an up and coming hotshot in the bantamweight ranks and had lost a highly controversial 12 round split to Johnny 'Dancing...
Hey, these were great. Thanks for posting.
Bernard Hopkins and Pernell Whitaker for me. Just not my cup of tea. Also, as was already mentioned, Nino Benvenuti.
Dude, if you thought he looked good against Norton, then you would have been impressed with him in his prime. I thought he looked terrible against...
Pascual Perez was 26 and Luis Estaba was 28
