Victor Galindez W15 Eddie Gregory (Mustafa), 1977: who here saw it?

I have the fight, but I am yet to watch it. If I have some time later on tonight, I'll give it a gander and give you my thoughts.

 

Never seen the fight. I think Boxing News had Galindez ahead- they tipped Gregory before the fight.

 

Typical Gregory bout---"if only" written all over it. Like if only Eddie would throw combos/if only Eddie would fire some nasty right hands at the guy/etc.

It was definately a winnable bout & Galindez had already had a bunch of tough close fights. Gregory got outworked in a bout he had the tools to win. Galindez was not going to give up the title easily & was guy that dug deep and Eddie just never seemed to dig deep or be willing to put things in 4th gear from time to time and really go after an opponent to get him out of there.

 

Huge fan here but a fair post.

 

It was an Eddie fight, so I fell asleep after round two. (Wake me up when it's over. Hey, don't blame me. Eddie was snoring during the referee's instructions!)

 

First of all my final tally: 143-142 Galindez

I gave Eddie rounds 1,2,6,7,8,10 and 14. I gave Galindez rounds 4,5( 10-8 round),9,11,12,13, and 15. I had round 3 even.

Quite a few rounds were close here, and there was quite a bit of controversy along the way. In round 5 Eddie hurt Galindez with a body shot that made Galindez wince, and moved in to go for the kill. As he did Galindez landed a counter shot that put Eddie down. Galindez landed a few more shots in the clinch by the end of the round. How do you score such a round? I went 10-8, but it could have easily been a 10-9 round for Galindez because he was hurt from that body shot.

Then in round 13, Eddie was hit with a low blow (Galindez had landed quite a few throughout the fight) and Eddie complained to the referee. The ref told him to stop faking it and continue fighting. They resumed and Gregory gave Galindez a light tap on the thigh, Galindez faked injury and the ref, somehow, ended up taking 2 points from Gregory! DISGRACEFUL! He probably should have been given a point, not have 2 points taken from him. On my card, I gave the round, which was fairly close, to Galindez 10-9. I didn't want to let the ref's call **** my card over. **** that ref.

Now, I'd have to agree with Zadfrak that this was a typical "if only" Eddie bout. He was making Galindez miss badly with some beautiful movement and was landing his jab at will, but he was altogether too passive on the whole. Galindez fought with a fury and took what he could get, hitting Eddie in the clinches, hitting him after the bell, hitting him low, hitting him behind the head and on the side of the head etc. In short, Galindez was desperate to land what he could. He did the better work in the clinches and probably landed enough left rips to the body to take it.

I think you could make a case for Eddie edging it if you score round five 10-9 and discount the bull**** point deductions from round 13, but he should have made a better case for himself by stepping on the pedal and taking the fight to Galindez. Wasted opportunity.

 

Worth mentioning that Galindez was very much starting to slow down at this point.It was indeed a wasted oppurtunity by Gregory.

 

I saw the fight, and a critical moment in it was in the 3rd round, when Mustafa hurt Victor with a couple of body blows, and Galindez, in a flash, decked him with a counterpunch, I think it was a right. After that, Mustafa wasn't nearly as assertive as he should have been, and Galindez did what he did best, and that was fight his countering style of fight, and win those close 15 round decisions that was a hallmark of his title reign. This one was close, but not controversial, as Galindez deserved it, and he had that kd to score that "something extra" in the points score. In an interview later on, Eddie said that he "wasn't ready for a Victor Galindez at that time", so even he acknowledged that he lost. This fight was nowhere near the controversy of the Alvaro Yaqui Lopez fight, for example. Eddie Mustafa, later on, was fully capable of beating Galindez, or anyone else for that matter, IMO.

 

Sweet Scientist, I have a regrettable tendency sometimes to not read the posts just proceeding mine, and in this case, I would have benefitted from doing so, as your post has much more clarity and accuracy than mine. I'm mostly on the same page as you, not counting a few details here and there. I was keeping score too when I watched it and I had Galindez the winner, again, I don't have a clue as to remembering the exact score I had.

 

No worries mate. :good

What are your thoughts on Galindez-Lopez? That's another bout in my collection that I haven't watched. Who did you have winning that bout?

 

Honestly, I thought a draw would have been fair, but there was a concensus that Lopez did enought to win. I saw both fights, and though I was pulling for Galindez, it just seemed to me that he squeaked by just barely in the 1st fight, and you know, that good ol' "champions perogative" was in place, and it seemed less than a clear-cut decision. As for that 2nd fight, I think a motivated Lopez may very well have deserved that one. Both fights were somewhat alike, style-wise. I always liked the Argentine champions around at that time, and I always thought that Vic Galindez was better than he was given credit for being, with that counterpunching, laid back, "come to me" style. He was like one of those big viper snakes, like a puff adder, sort of a "sit and wait" style of predator, and not the bomb throwing "caveman" type of fighter he seemed to be in his title winning fight against Len Hutchins back in 1974. Nevertheless, in the last part of his reign, before he met Rossman, he sure was the globetrotter, and had a knack for winning close 15 round decisions.

 

I watched most of the great LtHvywt battles of the 70's except some that were overseas and not televised back in the U.S.

I thought Galindez barely won this fight due to Eddie's lack of "going for it" when he had the chance.

I remember that Galindez changed his style from all out "attack" to more of a counter-puncher due to his propensity to cut later in his career.

 

Eddie boxed well but he could not pull the trigger, Victor was more aggressive and landed the harder shots...V.G. won the fight