anybody know about this guy, i heard he was a real exciting talented figther, who got burnt out quick, i ordered his fight with sugar ramos
youngest lightweight champ ever at 19 or 20 i think. an exciting fighter, had a three fight series with pedro carrasco of spain, who came into those fights for the title with something like 3 losses in 110 pro fights!!!! he showed up the spainiard as just another european fighter with an overblown record by beating him i think all three times or at least 2 of the three, with the loss coming under suspect cercumstances. anway, ramos was an exciting slugger, but he didnt last long. ismael laguna i remember cut him up real nice with his jab, stopping mando in 9 if i remember right. he was done by the time he was 25.
...........I have quite a few of his fights. He was an exciting boxer-puncher with sensitive skin. Skinny guy with great big ears. The Sugar Ramos fight is the most exciting one I have, but I thought he looked best against then junior-lightweight champ Kobayashi in a non-title fight. Boxed his ears off at the tender age of 19, showing tremendous poise for one so young. Had he continued on as he looked there, he would really have been something, but apparently he lived pretty hard, and it caught up with him.
Mando brings back great memories,s -- a slashing boxer/puncher who looked to trade. Macho was everything to him. The crowds loved him...and like Art Aragon, so did all the girls, literally. Mando's the first to admit now that booze and drugs were his undoing -- was high most of the time. Sad for me to see that once-lithe, handsome athlete unrecognizable, bloated on pain meds and hobbling on two canes, with the aid of his wife. His dad -- aside from gray hair -- looks as lean and mean as Mando did in his 20s, and is quick to demonstrate fluid combinations when West Coast Hall-of-Famers get together for any social event.
Great series of fights Mando Ramos was in during the late 60's & early 70's. Out in LA, and in other countries too. Ali unfortunately overshadowed the smaller fighters..but these guys could FIGHT ! Used to love to get the Ring Magazine, KO Mag. etc, and read the fight descriptions because we didn't get the live media coverage in the Central U.S. of the fights back then. There are several famous pictures of Mando with his eyes swollen up after his title bouts.
You will not be disappointed. Fantastic scrap and certainly whetted my appetite for more of Mando's and indeed early Sugar Ramos bouts.
He actually was drunk, had to get bailed out of a Tijuana jail the morning of a fight, drove all the way up to Los Angeles. And still won by Knock Out!
