The Brit Forum 'Who Am I?' thread

I caved in, googled it but couldn't find anything :huh And I'm no googlephobe!

 

Shall I spill ze beans then?

 

Spill google has not helped me :conf

 

:deal

So no Vano. And I'd rather have kept my dignity and never know the answer :tong

 

“In January of 1975, the World Boxing Council ordered Rafael Lovera of Lambare, Paraguay to fight Luis Estaba of Venezuela for the vacated light flyweight championship. At the time, the president of the WBC was Ramon Valesquez, a playground director in Mexico City who liked to be called “doctor.” (A year before, a stunned American fight official claimed to have witnessed Valesquez collect $20,000 in cash from a Bangkok promoter; the “doctor” blithely passed it off as a combination of sanction fees and fines.)

“Although no one in South America had ever heard of a Rafael Lovera, his record was cited by the WBC as 20-1-1. The WBC champion had been Franco Udella, a mediocre Italian boxer. When Valesquez ordered Udella to defend his title again the cabalistic Lovera, he had refused, pleading illness. Valesquez stripped him.

“That’s when the “doctor” ordered the Lovera-Estabra fight for the vacated crown. Lovera was knocked out in the second round. That came as no surprise. It was the Paraguayan cab driver’s first pro fight. He never fought a second.”

 

So my turn again?

If I was white I'd be a superstar.

Who am I?

 

Jack Skelly, although boxrec disagrees.

 

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Ok ill go 200 years ago today I nearly became the first black world heavyweight champion