Thoughts On Juan Roldan.

Kind of like saying the typical American African American contender: comes into the ring with blaring rap music, a huge entourage of parasites, a trash talker who is tall and skinny and starts falling all over the ring like a drunk on skid row with the first solid punch he gets slammed with! does a Zab glass chin Judah ring a bell :smoke

 

was kayoed as an amateur by Alex Ramos.And he would've lost to Dwight Davidson unless Davidson had one of his uninspired moments.

 

Teddy Mann took his punches. James Kinchen was not knocked down. He quit in his corner. Nunn never really got hit solidly the whole fight.

The thing about Roldan and Obel is they were well connected by the Latin American based WBA. They got title shots without fighting a lot of contenders first. Roldan only had to beat Fletcher, who it must be remembered had been handily defeated by Sypion earlier that year and was at least a year removed from his peak. Obel only beat the equally unproven Chong Pal Park to get his SECOND shot at Hagler, and beat noone of note to get his first shot. Conversely the top American middleweight contenders like Parker, Sypion, Fletcher, Davison and Hamsho (naturalized American) fought very tough completion - basically fought one another - before getting title shots and in some cases didn't get shots at all. Roldan turned out to be a worthy Challenger to Hagler but didn't do much to get his shot. Then he barely fought for three years afterward and beats Kinchen, who was no longer prime and had lost to Iran Barkley a few months earlier, and, boom, gets another shot. The political influence of the Latin American sanctioning bodies on 1980's and 90s boxing and its impact on its favorites cannot be overemphasized. Ironically, one American champion in particular - Ray Mancini benefited from this because the WBA top 10 during his reign was filled with mediocre Latin American favorites like Orlando Romero and the shot Ernesto Espana.

 

He was winning against Hagler until he couldnt see out of that eye, he tried to rough house Hearns but he took a brutal beating instead...i think Mugabi and Roldan would have been a classic...

 

Roldan ,as most Argentina fighters are exceptionally tough cookies in the ring.
And Roldan was a brawler par excellence...There was another Argentine middleweight of yesterday who I saw a few times like Roldan, who could hit like a mule, his name was Eduardo Lausse, who had a terrific left hook and
once beat the bullish Gene Fullmer in a brawl at MSG.
Just picture a bout between Eduardo Lausse against Juan Roldan ? WOW...