Fidel Bassa v Dave "Boy" McAuley 1

Yes ....very good fight indeed! those were the days ! ( nowadays i don,t watch flyweights )

 

Great fight, though the big headbutt to the side of the head McAuley lands for the first knockdown of his played a big part in it going that way.Not sure if it was intentional or not, but it let him get on top of Bassa and take enough out of him over the next few rounds to keep it a back and forth bout.

The second fight, Bassa just methodically stayed a couple of steps ahead throughout.

McAuley was in loads of exciting fights.Great action fighter.

Bassa was a very nice boxer-puncher, though had an odd combo of smooth precision and outright slop offensively.He never seemed that durable though, and wore down physically after only a handful of title defences.

He didn't look the same fighter by his last defence against Rojas, but was winning comfortably early on against his mediocre foe, until the very dirty Rojas(who was a big Flyweight too, like Dave) just kicked the mauling and fouls into top gear and detached his retina.

 

I highly recommand McAuley vs Blanco I then ! Even better imo !

 

That the Beeb had the bottle to put that on prime time on a Saturday evening, shows how popular the sport still was back then.

A brilliant fight, that looked like it was going to be an early blow out. If McAuley had, had anything approaching a world class chin, he could have been the best of a superb crop of fighters back then.

 

C'mon he was a decent standup boxer-puncher with buckets of heart, but he didn't have the overall ability to be the best 80s Flyweight.Not even close.A good member of the 2nd-tier of the era though.

 

His offence and power were comparable to most. As you suggest his ticker was good too. On reflection, I suspect that you are right though, he may have got the better of Bassa, but with Messrs Chitalada, Yuh, Chang and Gonzales around at the time, he would fall short.

 

I doubt he gets the better of Bassa more often than not either.

That headbutt was very important in the fight going the way it did and was his big chance to beat him, yet he still fell short.

 

Bassa seems to go down from a gust of wind in the first fight. Literally.

 

If you watch it carefully, Dave delivers a sublime glasgow kiss following through from the overhand, with Bassa sort of caught side on.Looked like it caught him on the temple.

 

Fun fight to watch, and would be a much better choice for fight of the year than the mire hyped but lackluster American buased Hagler vs Leonard.

Lots of back and forth ebbs and flows and huge momentum shifts. Both guys are on the edge of defeat at various stages. I didn’t like the pr deducted from Bassa after rd 7?

McAuley seemed to get denied of 3 potential KD’s.

First he scored a beautiful KD in rd 3....but I can’t find a punch that hit him lol? But he is unsteady on wobbly legs and goes down again....but it is not ruled a KD????

Round 6 he again drops Bassa to a knee off of a clean punch but again no KD ruled?

2 KD’s of Bassa in round 9 and Bassa looks bad.

13 early rd Bassa goes down? I didn’t watch a replay for this one? So not sure if it was clean or not...

Seconds later McAuley is down and this is all over! Great fight

 

Great fight, eh @George Crowcroft

Cant wait to see it on FOTF!

 

McCauley v Bobby McDermott on the McGuigan v Pedroza bill was another of Dave's wars.

 

Watched this with a few mates,screamed our self s hoarse, shouting for Dave Boy to win. Ahhh what a fight. Just glad Dave picked up a belt later.