VIDEOS: Bernard Docusen W 10 Frankie Fernandez; Yoshio Shirai W 15 Dado Marino III

Fritzie Zivic W 10 Tony Marteliano:
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Rare footage of Zivic during his relatively brief tenure as WW champ. Contrary to what the video implies, this was actually a non-title fight. Note the cracking right uppercut that Zivic flattens Marteliano with at the end of the fight. Marteliano was saved from a KO by the bell, but lost on points.

 

Eduardo Lausse D 10 Milo Savage:
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Lausse's incredible run of 34 consecutive wins was ended by tough journeyman Savage in Madison Square Garden, who battled Lausse to a draw. Savage pressured Lausse throughout, getting inside of his telegraphed swings and working him over on the inside. Lausse suffered a flash knockdown in round 7, but finished with a rush in the closing rounds to pull out the draw. The fight exposed some of Lausse's limitations and took some of the luster off his image, and ultimately signaled the start of his decline from the top of the ratings.

 

Marcel Thil WDQ 11 William "Gorilla" Jones:
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European MW champ Thil bullies his American counterpart Jones into fouling out in 11 rounds.

 

Bobby Boyd W 10 Gene Fullmer:
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Fullmer's second career defeat, an upset loss to the talented contender Boyd. Boyd would go on to be one of the top MW contenders for about a year before a crushing KO loss to Joey Giardello derailed his title fight ambitions. Note that the referee here is Tony Zale.

 

Bob Foster W 12 Henry Hank II:
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A film most of you have already seen: an up-and-coming Foster spears his way to a lopsided decision over an aging, but still considered dangerous Hank. This was a rematch: their first fight, by sharp contrast to this one, was a brutal punch-a-thon, with Foster coming through with a stoppage win (the only such defeat of Hank's long career) in the late rounds.

 

Teddy Yarosz W 15 Vince Dundee III:
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Here is the very underrated and overlooked HOFer Teddy Yarosz's title winning effort, against arch rival Vince Dundee. Yarosz had previously beaten Dundee twice, yet Dundee somehow ended up getting a title shot first (vs. Lou Brouillard), which he duly won in a surprising upset. Yarosz and Dundee presented something of a contrast in styles, with Yarosz being an ultra slick, obviously talented boxing phenom in the Tommy Loughran mold, while Dundee was a rugged, cagey "pulling fights out of the fire"-type bruiser. After this fight, Dundee (who was already in the advanced stages of his career when he won the title) suffered the quick brutal KO loss to Freddie Steele that is also in this thread, and faded away. Yarosz looked to have a long and fruitful title reign ahead of him, but a combination of a recurring knee injury and two shocking upset losses to the otherwise unheralded and mediocre Babe Risko (one by stoppage in a non-title fight, the other by decision for the title) ended his days as a champion, and he was never given a chance to regain his title. Although he scored wins over ATG HOFers such as Billy Conn and Archie Moore in his career, Yarosz's legacy somehow seems (quite unfairly) defined mainly by his brief and disappointing title reign.

 

Here's a Mauro Mina highlight reel spread out over several videos:

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How good was Mina? Was he the "real deal" or perhaps a bit over-mythicized? How would he have fared against contemporary champions like Harold Johnson and Willie Pastrano? Watch for yourself and decide.

 

No, it's not up there. I have the Hank fight in its entirety, and I am in the process of uploading it as we speak. I hope to have it up by tomorrow.

I actually thought Hank might've beaten him, or at least should've gotten a draw. It was a somewhat atypical fight from Hank, as he actually danced and flurried for much of the fight.