Rafael Herrera MD12 Chucho Castillo

Where do you guys get this awesome classic ****?

 

Bump. Such a well fought, highly skilled fight. Just a great technical scrap. Thought Castillo edged it though.

 

I had Herrera by a point, I think.

 

Chucho is legit one of the most underrated/underappreciated guys of all time.

 

If anyone has this fight on dvd or can upload this in the original size and format of the file let me know maybe we can make a trade or something. Cheers.

 

On point buddy, hardly read about this fine, smart little battler, his illustrious fellow countryman Olivares stole the limelight sadly, can still see the cover of the Ring when Ruben regained the title, showed a picture of the fighters in action, Olivares in the act of throwing a left hook ( what else ) and the caption read " Olivares is numero uno " what polar opposites they were, on the one hand, the flamboyant, party loving, Olivares, the other, was the studious, disciplined, Castillo, who's only outward sign of signing up for the the 70s was rather long sideburns, one to be an ATG, the other to consigned to be a footnote in Olivares reign as champ, Jofre, Ortiz, Zarate, all would be shaking hands with Chucho at the start of the 15th.
stay safe guys.

 

I did a dive into the 1970s Left Coast scene — one of my favorite time/place convergences in fistic history — a few years ago (as in watching a lot of video) and Chucho was a name I’d seen/heard but I knew little about him. The more I saw, the more I wanted to see more. I could watch him basically all day. What a warrior.

(And yes I realize some of his better work came toward the end of the previous decade.)

 

As a Londoner, the west coast boxing scene was soooo exciting, especially around the late 60s early to mid 70s , what with promoters like Parnassus, Eileen Eaton, and fighters like, Ruben Navarro, Arturo Pineda, the Baltazar bros, Gab Ruelas, Art Hafey, Frankie Crawford, Mando Ramos, Bobby Chacon, Danny Lopez, and many more, I couldn't wait to get my Boxing News and Ring to see the results and hopefully a few photos, one that sticks out was Pineda and Lopez both wearing sombreros in fighting pose, and in particular the bronzed look of Arturo against the very white skinned Lopez, a much anticipated fight by the way, with Danny coming in as the underdog, this was the fight that got fight people thinking that this was not just Ernie's little brother, but a future champ , happy days......
stay safe amigo.

 

There was a period in the early days of ESPN when they would randomly show fights from the West Coast live on like Friday nights … sometimes. They’d just sort of pop up. You’d be watching a basketball game or something and they’d just say ‘and after this is over, we’re out to Los Angeles for Pipino Cuevas vs. Angel Espada for the welterweight championship’ or something like that. I managed to catch quite a few of those, including Alexis Arguello vs. Bobby Chacon, and that period gave me a love for that West Coast action of the day.