Felix Trinidad in RSF 12 Fernando Vargas
December 2, 2000; Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
A lot was expected about the battle of unification of power between Trinidad and Vargas and, fortunately, did not disappoint. Trinidad, who defended his title WBA, jumped out of the blocks and twice started in the opener twice. Vargas returned a favor in the fourth round, sending Trinidad to a mat. Even worse for Felix, he was also deducted to a low blow. The same violation meant that the next point was taken from Trinidad in seventh place, before Vargas lost the point after a closer south of the border in 10. Constant violence with the view lasted to 12., in which the trio knocking up from Trinidad finally ended to a perfectly exhilarating competition.

Do you know? Former victim of Trinidad, Kevin Lueshing, called Boxing news Offices to discuss a brutal conclusion to fight. He said: “It caused a terrible memory of how he finished me.”

Watch out for: The complete HBO Pay-Per-View transmission is available to watch on YouTube. In Undercard he presents himself like Christa Martin, William Joppy and Ricardo Lopez.

This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.

Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.

Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.

The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.

Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.

Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.

In this contemporary era 15-plus, the British title does not wear elderly size. For some youthful perspectives, protecting the British crown is almost an election exercise-perceived as a plain stone on the way to the tilt on World Honors

When there was only eight weights and one world champion, the British crown was the peak of realistic ambitions for most boxers in this country. To win, you had to be good – especially if you had a misfortune to be in the division arranged. Albert Finch from Croydon was on this untruthful when he entered professionals as an average weight in the 1940s.

Born on May 16, 1926, the earliest fights of Albert were on the makeshift ring in the back of George Tavern in the Elderly Town of Croydon. As an amateur he won 63 of 68, chose the title of boys’ club in London, as well as the titles of London and South ABA. He lost in the semi -finals of the medium weight of the ABA championship in 1945 with Faul for this year’s winner Bob Parker.

Albert turned to Pro in August and in the next few years he accumulated a long record of mainly winning points. The impressive silhouette of Finch, the impressive silhouette of Finch – was polished with wavy wooden blocks for the transport and fuels of his father – she denied his boxing style. Skill, endurance and fantastic left stab – which brought him the nickname “The Croydon Woodpecker” – were the features of Albert Finch.

In April 1948, Finch inflicted the first defeat of Pro at Randolph Turpin (then 18-0-1), when he defeated the future world of the middleweight king at Royal Albert Hall. Randolph would suffer only one loss in his next 25 fights, which ended with his historical victory over Sugar Ray Robinson. But it was another Turpin, on which Albert had his goal, older brother of Randolph, Dick.

This year, Dick has gone down in history as the first non-British BBBOFC Era Master, after arranging the Crown of the average weight of Vince Hawkins after raising the archaic “color bar” of the board. Until 1949, the Finch record contained Skalps of most of our leading medium weight. He had 37-5-1, when he finally got a crack in the title as the first contender of Dick’s reign in June this year. Dick kept his British and empire stripes in the fight that Albert won. But for the second time luck for Finch, when in April 1950 he introduced Dick to win both titles, and also stopped him in the third match in July.

However, Finch’s reign was surprisingly compact. In October, Randolph revealed his brother’s failure, as well as his own when Ko’d Albert in five to restore the crown of medium weight to the Turpin family.

Until then, Finch fought for a medium weight. Super-Middle would suit him better, but this division did not exist, so he was obliged to go to massive weight.

He fought three times for the British, massive crown, losing to the three excellent masters in Don Cockell, Alex Bxton and Ron Barton. In 1954, Albert housed Future Empire Titlist Titlist Joe Bygraves, awarding 10 pounds. It was only two years before Bygraves won the title and three before Henry Cooper’s Ko’d in his first defense.

Finch was the favorite sparring partner of Ingemar Johansson, who helped to prepare for the European fight with Cooper in 1957. On the same Bill Bill Albert defeated the twin brother Henry, Jim.

The record of the Finch championships as a professional-month professional reign as a British and empire average in medium weight and only the southern crown as a slight heavy-does not reflect his talents full of justice. Albert (72-21-9) was one of four men who won British titles after World War II, who achieved over 100 professionals. He is in good company. The others are Dick Turpin, Ronnie Clayton and Alex Bxton.