I read he OD'd, sadly. Represented Mexico in the Olympics, if I remember correctly.
I find it difficult to believe that a guy somehow manages to make weight just fine fight after fight but somehow "never trains." Load of bull****...
Get off first, and lay off the uppercuts for the most part.
I think he deserves a world of credit. Excellent fighter who actually made a point of seeking out the toughest challenges available in a...
I don't find Monzon unimpressive per se. Just uninspiring.
Floyd Patterson W12 George Chuvalo This one won FOTY honors from The Ring magazine and I guess it was pretty good, as heavyweight fights go....
Neither fight should ever have happened.
Not everything survives over time, or gets better. Some things wither and die. Boxing is absolutely one of those things.
Foreman-Roman Norris-Joe Gatti
For what it's worth, I read in a book once where Jones ranked Sanchez second all time behind Robinson. Sal seems to have slipped in his eyes,...
I love the level of minutae we give descriptives of fighters. Caracas Foreman, that's a new one.
Hell Roy, even I wouldn't go that far......
Every fighter that doesn't get the fights he wants thinks he was ducked. What we DO know is that McCallum whines like a set of worn down brake pads.
Oh, to answer the actual question......no, not quite great. The talent was there but every time he seemed to build a head of steam he derailed...
Irony. He seemed so perversely afraid of getting hit hard as a lightweight, yet as his career went along and his reflexes and legs could no...
