Duran/Pazienza - Your Scores/Thoughts

I remember this one..yeah, it was a frustrating decision. Duran beat Paz the first time.

 

It doesn't annoy me, as Duran wasn't in this fight (or any other by that point) for anything but a payday anyhow.

It does show what a nothing Paz was, however. Hideously overrated.

 

This one pssed me off, too. I had Duran by two points. I really detested Paz at this point. He just seemed a cartoonishly macho guinea act.

I heard him interviewed recently and he sounded a lot more down to earth.

 

LW vs LW at SMW.

At 43 Duran looked better than your 35/36 year old Abhrams , Geale , Sturms ,Murrays , Taylors etc

 

The first Camacho fight was worse. Blatant robbery.

 

I thought Paz probably edged it through work rate only as Duran just didn't land quite enough though his edge in ability was obvious. That said I've always thought the Duran-Camacho 1 decision was more crappy. Roberto landed the only meaningful punches that fight and Camacho just pitter patted and ran, he did nothing.

Paz was a good story but an annoying, arrogant sort of person. His dislike of Dana Rosenblatt was as manufactured as it was needless (a nicer and less offensive guy than Rosenblatt you wouldn't see) and I was hoping like hell Rosenblatt would flog him but Pazienza got lucky (and I mean that he wasn't even looking when he fluked that shot on Dana) and his post fight behaviour of hitting Dana when he was helpless and the referee was between them was just classless.

I always get great satisfaction of watching Jones Jnr-Paz and even Aaron Davis-Paz to see him receive an appropriate and deserved comeuppance.

 

Please understand I'm from Auburn WA, the hometown of Greg Haugen, so...........you know. But still, I know an overhyped fraud when I see one, regardless of where I'm from.

Yeah, the boxing mags and NBC Sportsworld were talking him up something fierce, around 1986-87. They needed an ethnic hero again in the worst way, it seems.

 

Hah! I'm a huge Mutt fan, also. Have you ever him? Any idea how he's doing these days?

 

Never met him personally, but I went to school with one of his sisters. He's apparently well enough I guess, back here in Auburn after spending some years in Vegas. He was coaching out of a small gym here in town as of a couple years ago, which is the last I heard about him. Any semblance of fame or wealth or any of that is a distant memory for Greg now, he's back to being the sort of guy that would walk into a bar and someone might say "Oh hey, there's Greg Haugen" and go back their beer. That kind of thing. He enjoys a sort of local notoriety now.

A while back, a local radio drive-time show enlisted him to help out with movie reviews. These were kind of funny, because Greg lacks any (and I mean ANY) polish whatsoever. His reviews were littered with expletives to where literally half his movie review was bleeped out. In a way I felt a little bad for him about that, because the station was clearly playing on his roughness and lack of polish for comedy, at his expense really.

 

Those movie reviews were fvcking funny though.

 

Agreed, even though Paz was steroided to the gills he looked like someone had taken his lunch money at school after Duran busted him up.