Can anyone shed some light on this fight? I can't find the available footage of this fight online and not much has been written about it.
Here's what I can piece together from an account in the May 7, 1985 issue of the Sacramento Bee (if you pay for a subscription to the Bee, you can read the full article first-hand): "Bobby Chacon the Oroville oldie Tuesday night at Memorial Auditorium against Freddie Roach 25 the well-intended spoiler from Las Vegas. Roach appeared to be one solid punch away from a knockout. But as usual the slow-starting Chacon hung from the cliff and climbed back into contention. The popular Northern California favorite played to his old script. Still Chacon needed to win the 10th and final round for an assured victory but he It [???] was a decisive inning and Roach carried the issue To be sure Chacon lose the fight. He received a majority decision as Judge Pros Montana saw it for Chacon 96-94 and Judge Terry Smith voted by an unwarranted margin of 97-93. A truer verdict was Referee Hank 95-95 which was our own scoring. This was a classic draw and it was a miscarriage to give the Vegas challenger anything less than a standoff. He had fought too hard and too well." In short, it appears Roach had Chacon hurt badly at some point, & the MD for him was debatable.
"Chargin told an amusing story about how he thinks his longtime friend, Coach Freddie Roach still harbors a grudge about his 1985 bout in Sacramento against Hall Of Famer Bobby Chacon. Roach, probably at the peak of his career then and soon to finish up on a losing skein (four of his last five bouts) before he wisely retired, performed admirably in front of a hostile crowd of about 12,000 in the California capital city. “Freddie put Bobby on the deck not once but twice in the fight,” Chargin said. “I turned to (business backer) Sid Tenner and told him, 'They've got to raise Freddie's hand on this one.' Sid did not disagree but they gave it to Chacon on a majority decision. One judge had Chacon in front 96-94, the other hasd it 97-93 and the ref, Hank Elesperu, called it a push, 95-95. “To this day, my friend Freddie believes I set him up to lose. I had nothing to do with the scoring, of course. I was just as surprised as Freddie was when they announced that decision.”"
