Forgotten Fighters

Zack Padilla was having a good run at 140 pounds in the early/mid 90s before he was forced to retire.

 

Another guy from that era was Scotty “ The Bulldog “ Olson

 

I saw Scotty Olson fight in a title elimination bout, dominate for 4 rounds break his right hand and lose a decision. The other guy was Gilberto Roman's brother and got slaughtered by Julio Cesar Borboa in the title fight.
Roman's brother had no business being in a title eliminator.

 

I saw a picture of him the other day on Facebook- we have several friends in common- and he looks like he is eating very well.

 

Oh yeah - I'd forgotten about him!

 

Lockport Jimmy Duffy looks to have been a legitimate all time great. There’s never been a thread on him (probably on any forum), and his name has very rarely been mentioned (usually as resume filler for McFarland or Leonard or whomever). But you hear people mention a guy like Wes Ramey ad nauseam.

Hell, that entire era was at least as good, if not better, than the Golden 40s but you don’t hear nearly as much about the many, many great contenders. Meanwhile Cocoa Kid is a household name to the historical boxing fanatics.

 

I don't know, I already forgot them!

 

Not totally forgotten, but not talked about as much, Aaron the Hawk Pryor. He has a great record and people kind of forget about him when talking about the best fighters at 140.

 

As a whole, the mid-80's lightweight scene, which, around '84-'85, had the following names in the rankings at the same time....

Rosario
Ramirez
Mancini
Bramble
Arroyo
Paul
Camacho
Blake
Crawley
Baltazar


And many of them actually fought each other. Very exciting division back then.

 

Cornelius Boza-Edwards
Humberto Gonzalez
Jorge Paez
Simon Brown
Dave Boy McAuley

 

Carlos Palomino
Pipino Cuevas
Jose Luis Ramirez
Miguel Angel Gonzales
Terry Norris
Donald Curry
Julio Cesar Vasquez

 

Teddy Yarosz is really underrated for a guy that beat Billy Conn and Archie Moore.

 

Ken Overlin, too.