The Zarate-Zamora Ring Invader?

Plus,,,,,the ABC bodies disallowing the fight as a Championship bout.

 

Hot headed, emotional attention seeker, no doubt fueled by copious amounts of tequila.

 

He learned from his mistakes, and bought a parachute and a fan.

 

Lol, what was just as funny is seeing the legendry Cuyo Hernandez, throwing girlie punches they looked like two old drunks fighting over a cantina mama.

 

I saw the bout between Carlos Zarate and Alfonso Zamora while sitting in the cheap seats. While the bout lasted, there was plenty of action with a large and very boisterous crowd present. But there still were a fair number of empty seats. Zarate had much more skill and was taller than the hard-punching, relatively crude Zamora.

- Chuck Johnston

 

What did you and the people around you think of the run-in?

 

They felt it was funny and seemed to get even more excited when the imposter got into the ring.

- Chuck Johnston

 

"the atmosphere for those west coast lower-weight class fights in the 70s always seem so electric".

Chacon...Olivares....Castillo....Ramos..Napoles....plus all those B+/A- fighters giving it their all.

 

I was lucky to have seen all fight live, Chacon - Arguello, was one of my favorite fights. I was at the time Ring Magazine's West coast correspondent so I had choice seats. Zamora also fought on the card vs Eddie Logan, wotta fight that was. Logan stopped Zamora. LA, at that time had a slew of excellent fighters. I was ringside at the Pintor- Owens fight I might have had a role in that one, when Mickey Duff, asked me to go to Owens corner and ask them to stop the fight, as I was waiting for the round to end, Duff changed his mind, he said he didn't want to second guess the corner, so I didn't go. That was around the 6th rd. Owens was a nice kid, it's too bad really, had Duff had his way Owens might be alive today. It was a great era to be in LA at the time.

 

Owens name was brought up recently in an UK blog regarding the Chris Eubanks, Jr. fight situation.

 

I didn't see the Eubanks fight was it similar to the Pintor if you've seen it. Everybody tends to blame the ref, in the Owens fight you could see Owens was being battered. IDK why the corner doesnt see what's happening, if Mickey Duff wanted to stop the fight as of the 6th rd. It happened in another fight when my guy fought Leavander Johnson. Why his corner didn't see what everyone else was seeing, the announcer even said as much. My guy wasn't just hitting him he was hauling off and hitting him. You could see in his face.

 

Fortunately EubanksJr.'s opponent came out of the medically induced coma today.

Eubanks, Jr. was beating the ch!te out the guy, and Eubanks Jr.' dad was asking why the ref wasn't stopping the fight because it was so lopsided.

 

What bothers me is while the announcers, and everybody else see's that, the guy's in the corner, don't see anything. Maybe they are too close to the action or thinking this is the fighters chance to advance his career or this is a title fight and you don't want to take the chance away by stopping the fight when you should. Maybe the corners should be taught the signs when your guy is done. It was so obvious in both Owens and Johnson's case. Too many have seen the movie, Rocky, and believe, "the kid can comeback!", mostly in the movies rarely in real life. I have to ask were the signs there for all to see? If Eubanks dad saw it why not someone who could do something about it. Thanks for the reply