Boxing´s Bloodiest Wars ?

Badou Jack versus Marcus Browne

 

Not for nothing is Alexis Arguello vs. Alfredo Escalera known as The Bloody Battle of Bayamon. Both men gushed.

Both were also cut in their rematch about a year later. Two sharp, slashing punchers.

There was an obscure fight on I think ESPN around 1980 between Johnny Lira and Pedro Acosta. One of them, I think it was Lira, was cut around the corner of the eye, just outside it, and it must have ripped open a vein because blood was really gushing out … almost spurting.

The fight went the full 10, and by the end of it the front side of his white trunks were literally red. Like you could have taken a snapshot and people would have assumed he was wearing red trunks.

Lira, the hometown boy in Chicago, won a 10-round UD and as I recall it the verdict was just. Acosta couldn’t do much with him but hope they stopped it due to blood loss.