Chavez - Rosario 11/21/87

:good Great memories from a great era, it was great being in the 80's, every saturday afternoon on ITV we'd get the lastest fights from the states, i remenber this like it was yesterday, another shocker indeed:yep

Gotto love Col Bob Sherridan

That enthusiasism/excited bias call it what yer will but thats the sort of commentary we need instead of todays wooden puppets:smoke

 

I know, sometimes I forget just how good it was back then. :good
Nowadays you have to buy Sky Sports package, or PPV, for less quantity and far less quality when it comes to boxing.
I hate to be a "it was better when I was young" type .... but it was !

 

I'm in the minority on this, but thought it was a mismatch from the moment it was signed.

I never bought into Rosario all that much to begin with and that elbows out style of his was made to order for a precision body puncher like Chavez. I didn't think he had the footwork to do much against Chavez either and about all he did was get backed into corners. Chavez just didn't have the warts a guy like Rosario needed to exploit and I thought it was pretty much free money, along the lines of the Klitschko/Haye bout.

 

Fair enough.
Stylistically, you call it right.

But I think Rosario was as proven as Chavez at the time, and more so against 135 pounders at least. He was the number 1 lightweight (*Camacho was AWOL, or moved up, on coke, or something, and didn't want to fight Rosario again anyway), and Chavez was moving up to challenge.
Rosario was of worthy pedigree.