Interview with Harry Arroyo

timmers612 · Sep 29, 2016

salsanchezfan said: ↑

Except that Mancini retired after the second Bramble fight. The fact that a man retires hardly means he's ducking another fighter. Love the guy, honestly, but Harry Arroyo wasn't so scary that anyone would retire rather than face him, know what I mean? Besides, in mid 1985 it was Arroyo who still held a title, not Mancini.

Arroyo didn't arrive on the scene until after Ray was set to fight Bramble, so there was nothing to duck until he edged Blake in early '84. By then the wheels were already in motion for Mancini-Bramble, so it's rather unfair to make such a claim against Mancini considering Arroyo was totally unproven and on absolutely no one's radar until Mancini was already "spoken for" shall we say.

Dislike Mancini all you like man, but fair's fair. He didn't duck Arroyo. There's just no case for such a claim.
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I have to agree with you, there was no clammering for a Mancini-Arroyo bout at all at that time, I can't recall it being brought up by anyone as Arroyo was considered a fine boxer but a slight step behind Ray, Alex, and Bramble.

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