Gents, I know Danny Lopez was game 2X against Challenger / Champion Sal Sanchez back in circa--'80... However, that ain't the point / issue here.... :-( The issue is, while we know Sal Sanchez handled Danny Lopez in fight # 1 for a 13th round stoppage, my question is, was fight # 2 stopped too soon by Mills Lane in round 14 in the summer '80 rematch? Yes, Yes, Danny Lopez was again behind on points, yet game right up until rd. 14.... I know he was tagged by Sanchez wickedly with a combo in ring center and Lopez was buzzing, but did referee Lane step in too soon??? Could Danny Lopez have survived the Sanchez barrage?? bbb Who knows?:huh Go ahead and post a clip of the rematch if you know how.. I don't know how to download and paste from youtube... I'm not a computer geek.....:hey I grew up with a typewriter....:shock: MR.BILL:hat
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He sure was...glad you brought up the unsung rematch...it gets lost in the shuffle when talking of these two guys. The rematch was so much like the first fight...with a similar result.
Lopez, for a guy who was deck so relatively frequently, though only to get up a usually win by ko, he sure took it from Sal in both fights and never went down...and a lot of guys would have hit the deck with the punishment Sanchez was dealing out.
:bbb True... But Sanchez was not a real puncher in the sense of a Chacon...... Sanchez, like Ali and Holmes, dropped and took dude's out with a volley of blows in general... bbb MR.BILL:hat
I don't think it was stopped early. Lopez by then was hopelessly behind and just eating punches in bunches for no real reason. When Sal landed that last combination (one of the prettiest you'll see), Lopez buckled at it then became a question of why should one let the carnage continue. Lopez did stumble forward after the stoppage too, indicative of a guy that had his bells rung pretty bad.
I was reviewing fight # 1 last night... Freaky how similar both are to each other.... Only a round difference.... :shock::deal MR.BILL:hat
I know it's like off-topic, but it reminds me of the rematch between Jose Napoles and Curtis Cokes...same result, same fight practically, with Cokes looking puffed up and butchered all to hell...only this one lasted 3 rounds less.
10-4... Speaking of Naps.... I have a good copy of his TKO loss to Monzon from '74........ How did that fight get made anyway......?? Joe Naps has the build of a man solid between 135 to 142 pounds or so.... 147 was pushing it for Naps........ He was 153 for Carlos Monzon over in Europe and Monzon was a huge 160 pounder........... MISMATCH!! MR.BILL:hat
