Which country was it that Benitez found himself in, stuck for 12 months, when after a fight his promoter has taken off and left him with nothing....
A very polarising fighter. Love or hate with not much in between. His personality was mostly to do with it, similar to Anthony Mundine. The...
I hate the term quitter. It's suggestive of cowardice or weakness which no pro boxer should ever be accused of except in highly exceptional...
Hagler, because he was the better fighter Sands had close to 100 fights by the time he was 26
Yep he had a good fighting background so he started ahead of zero. 15 years after 1969 Jeff Fenech won a title in his 7th pro fight, about 8...
Andries would be simply too big for Eubank
It's amazing to think...only 8 years later in 1977 a fighter wins a title in his 3rd pro fight
3 and 1/2 years out of the ring and with serious head injury issues hanging over him. Whoever licensed him should have been taken out and shot
I think it was Ad Wodgast that ended up in a mental asylum?
Hearns has been a massive credit to himself and the sport for decades. Never read a single story about him beating people up in the street,...
The Janssen brothers Mark and Brian were pretty handy in their day So were the McElwaine brothers (3 of them I think). One was a Commonwealth...
Fenech struggled badly to make 118 but I think his promoter wanted to keep him at bantam because of the title ($$$). His body was screaming to go...
Pedroza being blasted out by Alfonzo Zamora. What a beauty of a KO. Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella. Ouch...
Quite a while after their fight Coffee went into Fenech's dressing room to offer his congratulations. A very sporting gesture from Jerome. He...
Yep, pretty exciting fight. But there could have been no complaints if Benn had been DQ'd for hitting Barkley while was down p.s Barkley has to...
