In Defense of Defense: Locche vs Fuji

There is quite a lot a lot of him on youtube but sadly his career went by with most of the boxing world being unaware of what a true boxing genius Locche was. He only fought out side Argentina on 3 occasions and during the sixties there were only written reports on fights coming out of Argentina. He was only known in Argentina where he would regularly pack Luneta Park Buenos Aries with 20,000 adoring fans. It has only been the last few years when his fights have been posted on youtube that the boxing world has realized what they have missed out on. Take a look at the last rd of the 1st Cervantes fight. I think it's under ''Nicolino Locche el untucable'' where he stands directly in front of him with his hands down by his sides, on his knee's and even behind his back and avoids everything thrown at by the murderous punching Cervantes. He was purely a defensive boxer without much offense but because it was nearly impossible to hang a solid shot on him he only had to land a hand full of shots to steal the round.

 

A full copy of Cervantes I is one of the holy grails of vintage fights for me. I hold out hope that there's one floating around out there somewhere.