Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Lorenzo Aragón, July 31st 1996

Nah just on youtube, against an American and a Uzbek from memory.

 

Yeah I just looked them up again and those are the ones, didn't realise they were posted in this thread.

 

I just see a lack of variety in his punches and no inside game, all of his punches are at the same speed and rhythm which is unusual for a Cuban fighter, plus the clinching as you mention (I see Aragon instigating most of it). Each to their own, I don't see anything exceptional about him based on what I've seen (only a handful of fights). His accomplishments and level of opposition defeated back up your point of view more than mine so I could be missing something... :think

 

Andre Berto was another victim to Aragón.

 

http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/Lorenzo_Arag%C3%B3n_Armenteros

Llegó a ganar en diez ocasiones el campeonato cubano, en seis divisiones diferentes (de 51, 57, 60, 63.5, 67 y 69 kilogramos), lo que ningún otro boxeador en Cuba ni en el mundo, ha podido lograr.

He won the Cuban championship ten times in six different divisions (51, 57, 60, 63.5, 67 and 69 kilograms) something no other boxer in Cuba or the world has been able to achieve.

Aragón fue seleccionado para los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta, Estados Unidos. No estaba convenientemente preparado, e incluso tenía 10 kilogramos de sobrepeso que tuvo que rebajar en solo dos semanas. Tampoco pudo hacer junto a sus compañeros el entrenamiento habitual en la altura mexicana.

Aragón was chosen to participate in the Atlanta Olympic Games. He wasn't completely ready and he even was 10 kgs above his weight, he had to lose them in 2 weeks. He could not participate in the usual high altitude training along with his teammates in Mexico.


It does make you wonder what would have happened if he had fought Mayweather after proper training.

 

Welcome.

Somewhere in here he mentions that to be a good boxer, you have to be a good dancer.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091026224128/http://www.geocities.com/pedrinet/aragon.html

 

Errrr.. more like:

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Yes he was great Cuban amateur..probably top 30..we had many good amateur champions..you are a huge boxing fan so you probably know them...Teofilo Stevenson, Felix Savon, Lorenzo Aragon, Mario Kindelan, Enrique Carrion, Hector Vinent, Roberto Balado, Jorge Gutierrez, Hector Millian, Ariel Hernandez, Daniel Regalado,Emilio Correa, Maikro Romero, Joel Casamayor, Yan Barthelemy and lately Odlanier Solis, Erislandy Lara, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Robeisis Ramirez and Roniel Iglesias..