After Vic posted the Eloy Sanchez/Johnny Caldwell/Jose Legra footage, I saw this on google vids and wondered who else had watched it. It was recently the 50th anniversary of Jofre's original title winning effort against Sanchez, which seems to be the catalyst for these new snippets coming to light. Anyway, have a gander at these if you haven't already seen 'em.... http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=313985 http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=313988 The Caraballo footage isn't of the best quality but nay mind. I'll take anything I get where the little Brazilian master is concerned.
Amazing to see all this footage come to light when all most people had seen were just the Harada and Medel fights.
Thank you Vic, it was your initial thread that got me looking. What does everybody think of Caraballo? His record + contemporary opinion and everything I've read about him already suggested to me that he was an extremely good fighter of the naturally talented self-taught kind: fast, slick, mobile and agile if a touch raw at times on the fundamental side. Having never seen any footage of him, the video sort of confirms this imo. Wouldn't mind seeing more of him, especially the Harada fight.
Tin, look this interesting thread. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8257029 Valdez says...... in his opinion Bernardo Caraballo was the best colombian fighter (All Time)
Cool. Sadly my Spanish isn't good enough to get a proper handle on the conversation. Interesting though......better than the likes of Cervantes, Lora and Valdez himself? This content is protected This is quite an interesting read from about a year ago on the main esb page. Caraballo seems as willing as any beaten prizefighter to 'explain' his defeats to Jofre and Harada but it's not a bad read at all.
i've seen the harada fight and had harada winning going away, strength being the decisive factor. My memory could be wrong but Carabello may have stunned Harada a couple of times but It might of been the other way round. it's quite a while since I saw it. I'll have another look at it.
Harada apparently was the rightful winner in a good fight from what I can tell, with Caraballo having his best spell in the final rounds. Harada was full of praise for him afterwards and said that his style was troublesome (though I would've vaguely expected a swarmer-boxer of Harada's fleetness to have the style advantage here). Didn't Harada have to shed a bucketload of weight (over 2 stone) in the build-up? Nay wonder he had a short shelflife....
Cheers for all this stuff lads, I have been admiring from a afar but seriously great stuff being shown here, and also discussion has been good.
Caraballo reminds me slightly of a more disciplined better Kirkland Laing.Really athletic and fast, good natural offense and punch fluidity, but sloppy and open fundamentally. He fought well against the japanese Hatton from what i remember.