29 Years Ago Today a Star Was Born

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  1. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Twenty nine years ago today Danny "Little Red" Lopez fought what was suppose to be a routine title defense. It was Little Red vs Little Known! Many experts picked Danny to stop the 21 year old upstart inside 5 rounds. Such was not to be the case. For 13 rounds this Mexican Man Child handed Danny Lopez the beating of a life time. We would never again hear those familar words, "And still the WBC featherweight champion of the world, Danny "Little Red" Lopez," and we would never again asked, "Salvador who?"
     
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  2. Bill Butcher

    Bill Butcher Erik`El Terrible`Morales Full Member

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    Yeah, Sanchez rarely, if at all, looked better than in the Lopez fight, very smooth display.
     
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  3. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    I watched the first fight with a freind who was also a big Lopez fan. For several rounds we were not concerned at all. Danny often lost a lot of early rounds. Eventually it got to the point where Sal was standing and trading with Lopez, and Danny couldn't even make him flinch. In those days trading with Little Red was a recipe for disaster, but Sanchez, to our astonishment, was out slugging the slugger. One thing that still sticks in my mind was the expression on Sal's face. He did not look like a 21 year old kid trading with arguably the hardest banging featherweight of all time. His expression looked more like that of a guy ordering a freaking pizza!
     
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  4. tays001

    tays001 ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    truely a defining moment
     
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  5. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Yes it was. Sanchez did not just "pick up a title" at 126. He beat THE MAN in stunning fashion.
     
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  6. EL-MATADOR

    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's not my birthday yet...
     
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  7. FlatNose

    FlatNose Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sanchez had a jaw of iron, a will of steel, and the best stamina since a prime Henry Armstrong. Lopez was a guy who wore down opponents but that wouldn't work against a guy who doesn't get hurt or tired. Lopez still would heave beaten most Featherweights at the time. But Salvador was hardly like most Featherweights.
    Still, Sanchez didn't get his due until he destroyed Wilfredo Gomez, who at the time was the hottest thing around. I remember seeing a weary, battered Gomez trudging to his corner at the end of the seventh, while a fresh, unmarked Sanchez bounced back to his. That Sanchez was one in a million.
     
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  8. SHADOW BOX

    SHADOW BOX SHADOW BOX Full Member

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    Amen!
     
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  9. EL-MATADOR

    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    10 million:deal
     
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  10. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    EL-MATADOR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  12. FourtyOunce

    FourtyOunce Stick Ninja Full Member

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    Till now I had never heard of danny lopez or sanchez for that matter guess Im too young... 32 btw
     
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  13. strongarm

    strongarm Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Look in to them. Particularly Sanchez... A legend that died too young.
     
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  14. pipe wrenched

    pipe wrenched ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    Great thread Boo! Keep em' coming gentlemen, as I am currently studying both Lopez and Sanchez, along with some others from the era, as it was a little before my time to get into boxing.

    Very interesting.
     
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  15. pipe wrenched

    pipe wrenched ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    Me too!! 32. I read the book by ESB front page writer Ted "the Bull" Sares, Boxing Is My Sanctuary and he spent a good deal of time covering this era, and his descriptions make the time and fighters sound mouth watering.
     
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