Requesting Senor Pepe please cover this fighter!! If ever a prospect look as good as gold this guy did! http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Ron_Huston
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Ron_Huston Requesting Senor Pepe please cover this fighter!! If ever a prospect look as good as gold this guy did! PS Dunno how i wound up jimmy two times but i did
SLAAKA Weehawken Ron Huston Looked like he was going tp be a 'Superstar' after he got everyone excited with his impressive performances in the New York Daily News Golden Gloves Championships in 1978 and 1979. A young man at '22' after winning the '1979' 175 lb. Open Championship, but a tad late to get started in the professional ranks. Biggest win, a {November 1980} Decision Win over Eric Winbush, the man who would later go on to stop Matthew Saad Muhammad in March 1983. Had him going 11-0-0 (7 KO's), but not 'Rocking the World', until he got 'sliced' by Mike Fisher in his 'toughest battle'.
Super Senor Pepe im bowing to you now and thats a Slakka rarity!! You are the IBM big blue computer of ESB classic forum!!
Ron Huston was a 'knockout artist' as an Amateur. Blasted out (KO 3) David Rogers at the 1978 Golden Gloves in the Finals. Blasted out (KO 1) Thomas Clohessy in the 1979 Golden Gloves in the Finals. Turned professional immediately after the Golden Gloves. Too bad, he got 'sliced up' by the 'mediocre' Mike Fisher at Madison Square Garden in May 1981. He never got it back aftet that 'cut-eye' TKO loss. Ron had the size (6' 0") at 175 lbs., and had the power.
Pep! The reason i decided to attend Cooney vs Norton was this very fight. The main dident really do it for me. Ken seemed so washed up and im a bit on the thrifty side. Im pretty sure no film exists of this match?? Ron had Fischer bouncing off the canvas more than once if memory serves, then the ref suddenly halted matters. Fisher went ten rounds with Bobby Czyz and never wobbled once. I’m sure Ron hit much much harder than Bobby. I always wanted to ask Mike himself for verification. He’s gotta be out there somewhere?
Slakka, I may have seen Ron win the 1978 Golden Gloves, but I don't think he was affiliated with any boxing club at the time. He KO'd David Rogers at 175 lbs. and David was a pretty good fighter. I think Ron got some ink in the New York Daily News, but they didn't pick him as a future Championship-type.
Ron was from New Bedford Mass and had me very convinced he had some young Marciano in him waiting to be properly nurtured by a little Charlie Goldman. Between 78-79 he blasted every opponent out of the ring and set a new knockout record for the NYGG! One problem. In each year he was obligated to face the Chicago champ, one Lee Roy Murphy, and as good as he was he wasn't ready for this level of outstanding pro style boxer-puncher. He was stopped on both occasions. Thats the problem with amateur boxing. You win a couppla fights and then the heavyweight champion of Latvia has to face prime Teofelio Stevenson! Im certain, had he avoided these meetings with Murphy and turned pro in 78 with the right people doing things the right way, he'd of been champ.
Slakka, Lee Roy Murphy and Indiana's Alvino 'Killer' Manson - Nobody got out of the ring alive, when you faced those two North Central 'jaw breakers'.
