On Their best nights Two superb Boxing Featherweights, who enjoyed highs and lows but will probably best be remembered for great world title challenges...with memorable last rounds, .. Barry McGuigen would Probably of Harried and Left-Hooked Cowdell to clear defeat, Likewise Salvador Sanchez would Probably of mathodically and severely Punished Stevie, But (Heat or no Heat) Styles make Fights and so it was that Stevie's subtle skills where able to Play countering Matador to McGuigen's Bull'ish Aggression, And Cowdell's sometimes weird looking 'Crab An Jab' Frustrated the hell out of Salvador... for 14 rounds.. And then came those career defining final three minutes.. Anyone who left the Venues earlier missed the sweet icing on the Cake. Both were no strangers to the Nightmare Result, with Cowdell being Sparked in the first by Azumah Nelson, and earlier in his career Stevie suffered a similar first round Fate against Hard Hitting Lenny Valdez, But a quick resolution here, with both being in their McGuigen/Sanchez Peak is extremely doubtful, More a distance boxing exhibition for the connoisseur .. Lets just say in an Air Conditioned Auditorium Somewhere..... Over 15 Rounds of Course.... Stevie or Pat ?
Cruz and Cowdell were both counterpunchers at heart. Cowdell would use his height and reach advantages to force Cruz to lead. This would not be exciting. Cruz didn't have the firepower to make Cowdell change tactics. Cowdell would win a UD something like 9-6.
