vito antuofermo vs juan domingo roldan

Roldon in three. Too powerful. Wrong match for Vito.

 

Vito will hang tough for most of the fight, but J.D. will ultimately be too strong. Roldan late on cuts.

 

Vito beat Curto, decision, won good fight.

Vito beat many top fighters, he got ducked a lot. Roldan is not in his class. Vito was in to p 10 long time, 5 years, before he got shot. Hagler complained he was discriminated against, so Vito had to make first defense agaisnt him. Vito was near end when he won title.

 

The early rounds mean everything in this fight. Roldan was strong and would test anyone. I give the edge to Vito in a long fight, but Roldan could stop him mid rounds. Hard fight to pick Roldan was a hard puncher.

 

Vito avoided a remtach with Vinnie Curto.

In the first fight, Vinnie Curto was nursing a damaged wrist, but took the fight anyway,
because of a decent pay-day.

Vito Antuofuermo did agree to give Curto a re-match fight, and in Boston.
But it never went through.

 

Vito wasn't able to fight Curto again, it's that simple. The powerbrokers running Vito's career had him angling for a title fight. That meant no step backwards career-wise for Vito.

Curto's chances of fighting Hagler after 1977 were nil for the same reason. In 1978, Hagler's trainer Goody Petronelli said of Curto, "We couldn't fight him now even if we wanted to." That's because Hagler was scheduled for big-time matches, which meant no time for a Curto fight.

If Curto had gotten himself ranked in the late '70s, then it would have been a different story. Hagler and Antuofermo matches then would have made sense. But I don't think Curto was backed by anyone with big money. Thus, no big fights for Curto during that period.

Maybe Curto should have stuck with Angelo Dundee, just to keep himself in the limelight.