Santos Laciar vs Shuichi Hozumi - Flyweight Title Fight - The Diminutive Dynamo of Argentina

Santos Laciar is one of Argentina's most underappreciated & unheralded fighters and more importantly, champions. That's saying something considering the massive depth and berth of boxing history woven through the nations history. The diminutive even as a flyweight Laciar was a little workhorse of a fighter with a never say die attitude. He was a moderate puncher and usually relied on his tremendous activity and conditioning to see him through bouts.

Laciar was never stopped in a career spanning 101 bouts and 906 rounds. As a reminder, Ali fought 548 rounds, Roberto Duran... 821.

As an unrelated side note, I absolutely love the Japanese language art that Japanese TV stations used to, and still do, employ. So dynamic and engaging, even though I have no idea what I'm truly looking at. My eyes appreciate it.

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I don't believe so, though I haven't gone out of my way to check.

He certainly should be. He ticks off just about every noteworthy box for admission.

I know his opponent isn't the greatest but there isn't a ton of Laciar footage actually available... even this bout, I don't recall ever being on Youtube before. Sometimes you have to take what's available.

 

It's a shame that he doesn't stick out of his respective era more because of the talent around his weight class in his own day being so solid. He's something of a forgotten man, as I've already said. You certainly wouldn't think that initially if you were to look at his record. Lots of names, noticeable ones.

 

A few of our regular lower weight fans and a particular Cobra have all missed this one so far, gonna give it a bump and see if it catches anyones eye.

 

You ever watch any of the videos I post BC?

 

Did you watch this one? I found a lot to like. I love Laciar's lazy metronome type head movement. Tick tick tick. He just keeps on shuffling into distance with the same rhythmic head movement again and again until he pins his opponent down.