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Editor selection: When the Mexican hero Julio Cesar Chavez went 89-0 against Andy Holligan

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Julio Cesar Chavez

During the roll in Mexico in the winter of 1993, the great Robbie Davies was in Ringside in his Blazer from the games of the Nations Community. Behind the scenes, in a frigid room used by the student Matadors, Andy Holligan was preparing to fight the hero of all Mexico, Julio Cesar Chavez, for the title of WBC a delicate beef weight. There was no need for bookmakers.

At night, when he approached the ring, the fans were focused on the cheapest seats – not seats, only concrete slabs – around fires burning metal drums. I saw high flames, whenever someone spitted his lips full of beers in barrels. It was a vision of hell from my unthreatening seat, but Holligan had a sedate choice and knew exactly what he signed. “I’m not stupid, I’m fighting a living legend,” he said on Wednesday.

Davies threw his blows, screaming, delighted and dived during the fight. He was a man completely devoid of any concept of fear, that is. He was an ideal travel companion, and he just added a tight, tight blazer to its appearance.

It was a lost and painful cause, and at the end of the fifth round Arthur Mercante, the iconic judge, went to the corner of Holligan. Mercante told Colin Moorcroft: “I think this fight should end.” Moorcroft and Frank Warren pulled out Holligan. It was the perfect break. Chavez moved to 89 wins that night and without failures.

A few days before the fight, there was a run on the streets of Puebly with Chavez, a plain idea in which the Master of Mexico escaped, and thousands would go up to him and down the cobbled streets. It was an elevator from Rocky and there would be stray dogs, boys with shoes, jovial teenagers, cameras and publicity. It made sense; Brief gear, nice photos, and then a word with an idol. However, it turns out that I had the right attitude, but at the wrong height. At 7200 feet I finished after 10 minutes, catching my breath, sweating, fighting and drinking water, hallucinating on the stairs of the restaurant, which gave me chicken with chocolate last night. This is a local delicacy. The run was not nice and the chicken was not for me.

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After returning to Maison Del Exportion, a great fight hotel, in which the management increased by prices by about 300 percent without any warning, in the Michael Nunn camp there was an augment in the crisis; The master was bulky, very bulky. He was in the steam room and went out, he looked exhausted and dangerously close to falling. It was a regular thing from Nunn, which had six feet and vast. And he lacked discipline.

The state of Nunna led to one of the largest lines of Don King, a wicked mixture of joke, grain and placement of the product. One day, on the edge of the pool, King was asked about Nunna’s problems with weight and could he recover on Saturday’s fight against Merqui Sos about Super-Middleight WBA.

“Sure, Nunn can soak his balls in frosty crowns,” King said as he pulled a bottle from a bucket of ice, water drips over his Safari suit. It was perfect. Nunn won, beating the sauce at points to keep his title. This was his last victory in the fight for the title of Master and only his last battle with Scales. By the way, Sosa is one of the bravest and the most fearless people I’ve ever seen live.

Hector Camacho and Oliver McCall were also on a long account; They were not guests in the same hotel. I can only imagine a party that I missed tardy at night somewhere in Puebla. I chose a reasonable tardy evening, found somewhere to eat and a place where competing Mariachi teams would sing a lullaby for almost every warrior you asked. It cost a few pesos to hear glory in their words and observe their actions. They tell the story of the fight; They put on imaginary bandages, go to the ring, touch the gloves and tell the action. These hypnotizing, and these wonderful, emotional songs should be called Boxeocorrido, the boxing version of the infamous Narcocorrido ballads, those devoted to drug traders and killers. I have no idea if Nunn, Camacho and McCall have their own catalog.

So many elderly, king’s elderly bills in the nineties had hidden jewels. In Puebla Derrick James, coach Errola Spence, moved to eight and zero, winning with the legendary Irishman of Danny Morgan. In the next fight for the title of world champion Terry Norris was knocked out by Simon Brown for the title of WBC Featherlight-Middle. Norris and Brown is the main event in any language.

It was a arduous, arduous night for Andy Holligan in this distant and hostile place. Chavez was full of respect after the fight, not calling Holligan “a coward, a bitch, a dog”, just like with Greg Haugen at the beginning of the year. By the way, Chavez fought six times in 1993, which includes a draw with Pernell Whitaker. In fact, he fought in Juarez six weeks before the fight in Holligan. It sounds like a warrior of the fifties, not very current.

Chavez would lose for the first time in the next fight, divided into Frankie Randall on MGM in Las Vegas. His troubles started away from the ring.

Holligan was then a British champion and lost for the first time in 22 fights; Only six months later he was beaten by Ross Hale, losing his British title.

Nunn lost his way after Puebla. In the process of having cocaine in 2003, it was claimed that in 1993 there was a year in which he developed a cocaine problem – it was, unfortunately, probably earlier. He was sentenced in 2003 to a stunning 24 years in prison for paying a secret agent of 200 bucks for cocaine; He walked for free in August 2019.

McCall had its demons for years, Camacho is dead. Don King met Mike Tyson again last week in Florida. In Mexico, they are still singing songs about Chavez and what he achieved in the ring, and with even greater attachments, arduous times from boxing. Even Saul Canelo Alvarez will never replace Chavez in the hearts, souls and minds of Mexicans.

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A man who brought Benny Lynch

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Benny Lynch

It has always been discussed who was the best of the two pre -war world champions in the fly weight: Jimmy Wilde or Benny Lynch? After two early losses as a teenager, Wilde lost only four times in his long career, and each of these failures was against a world -class fighter. He could hit the venomous strength and dominated the flyweight division for seven years. Lynch [pictured] The loser quite regularly in the very early years of his career in 1931–1933, but these defeats taught him a lot and until 1934 he was practically impossible to defeat. His career was harassed by the inability to conveniently attract weight and infamously by drinking. When in 1935 he defeated Jackie Brown for the title of world champion, he looked great, but his demons soon caught up with him, and his career became badly used, and one man, Jimmy Warnock from Belfast, clearly emphasized the shortcomings of the Scots.

Warnock comes from a fight family, because in the 1920s and 1930s there was a fighter cluster with Belfast, including Billy, Freddie and Dave, but Jimmy was by far the best. He began his career, fighting in countless places of Diminutive Hall, and then acting around the city, including in Rialto, Beresford club, Ring Street Thomas, and in the summer, in the open air in Grosvenor Park. In 1935 he became a Bill-Toper in Ulster Hall and Kings Hall, and a year ago the Ring magazine assessed him in the top ten of the world.

After destroying Brown, Lynch fought with three fights outside the titles in his hometown, winning them quite comfortably, and then went to Belfast to meet Warnock in what was another basic competition. The newborn Scot was “on the way”, allegedly earning money, defeating newborn ejaculation. In Kings Hall, in front of a crowd of 12,000 people, including the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and most of his office, he received a great shock when Warnock withdrew him in a sensational fight. BN informed that “in the fighting Melees Warnock never had something to learn from Lynch, who said that the Irish star could have a high speed and body at a high speed, while ignoring the hit of the master. Lynch was equipped and thrown by a boy whose versatile equipment was better.” Whether Lynch’s problems with weight turned out to be a factor in this competition is unknown, but because the match was made with four pounds above the flying weight limit, it should not be the main factor. The fact is that Lynch was simply worse at night.

Two men met again the following year at Parkhead, the Glasgow Celtic Football Club house, in a match made for 4 ounces above the flying weight limit. Inevitably Lynch took two pounds of overweight and paid 150 pounds at that time, a huge amount of money. Even with this advantage, he could not master the newborn Irishman. About 20,000 people saw Warnock dominated the world champion at the full distance of the 15 round championships. After an early surprise, when Lynch dressed him during the first minute with pruning right -handing to such an extent, Warnock never looked back, and BN lamented: “Benny’s form was enraged that it was true. Where was the whole active attack in this competition!

Lynch’s story is very sorrowful and despite his splendor, when he was at its best, he ranks second in my book by Jimmy Wilde. As for Jimmy Warnock, his two victories over Lynch were the most vital event of his career. He beat some great fighters and earned a lot of money, but Peter Kane turned out to be his Nemesis. He won 74 of 101 competitions and retired in 1948. He was a great petite scenario.

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Nat Dresner – Mr. Boxing Edinburgh

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Today, Glasgow is widely perceived as a spiritual home of Scottish boxing, but in the 1920s, when sport flourished north of the border, Edinburgh was a boxing epideror in the country. This was largely thanks to the ambitions and entrepreneurship of one pioneering promoter – Nat Dresner.

Born in a Jewish family in the middle class in Leith around 1880, Nathaniel Dresner was the son of an importer of the Baltic shoes and pawnshop. NAT started his career in theater management and branched in boxing in 1922 accordingly. His growth in sport was meteoric.

In his first year, as a promoter, Dresner put up a sale at the Waverley Market, the roof fruit and vegetable market at the Edinburgh City Center, each time drawing thousands of viewers. In November, Nat reserved the prevailing world champion of weighty weight, the legendary fighting pee for an exhibition on the market. The fight collapsed, but the program appeared on the headlines. Prince George, Prince Kent, whose ship Royal Navy was abandoned in Port Edgar, was the ring to see local favorites, Alex Ireland and George McKenza, winning clear wins over Billy Mack from Liverpool and Londoner Fred Bullions. Ireland and McKenzie, both managed by Dresner, were to win British titles, and the European Crown Ireland.

January 2, 1923 – less than a year after entering the combat industry – NAT achieved a solemn, almost unthinkable coup in the state of the coup when he issued the first British and European struggle in Scotland; That he was questioned two Scots, there was cherry on the cake. At that time, England – especially London – had a virtual monopoly on master competitions. In the event, in the industrial hall at Annandale Street in Edinburgh, he saw the delicate champion Seaman Hall of Peebs, he saw the pretender Johnny Brown of Hamilton in over 20 rounds, before 12,000 fans. Nat cleverly staged a match just after the Sprint Race race, an athletics event, which attracted tens of thousands of enthusiasts to Edinburgh.

In November 1924, Dresner tempted a great kid Ted Lewis in defense of his British and European welterweight titles in the industrial hall. In the crowd of 20,000 (2000 disappointed slow lately closed) that Scotland Tommy Milligan conducted Teda titles with the 20-Rund win. The program has set a foreign attendance record for Scotland, which I think is still standing.

NAT used every opportunity to pack boxing into a wider audience. Unlike the London National Sport Club, which excluded women from the promotion, Dresner reserved some of the places in the field of rings for exclusive apply by women on all their programs. He also offered the unemployed reduced admission indicator if they produced their “bottom” cards. On the other hand, he willingly accommodated members of the Scottish nobility: Marquis Clydesdale was employed as a constant time in Ringside, and Sir Iain Colquhoun from Luss was MC at the main shows of NAT.

Dresner was also an experienced marketer who understood the value of branding. Judge George Smith, who worked as a program seller in Dresner’s promotions, told the boxing author Brian Donald: “We were all flawlessly dressed by a promoter in white woolen jumpers with the inscription” Nat Dresner “with the inscription and front of bold green letters. Everything was meticulously planned. “

In six low years, Dresner made great progress in this sport and it seemed that it was just beginning, but health intervened badly. Nat died on March 31, 1928, at the age of 48, after a two -year illness. Two -week before his death he left the ill bed to take part in his last promotion, when the versatile British and European title Milligan and Alex Ireland attracted 10,000 fans at Waverley Market. His coat now goes to other promoters, but Dresner’s place was provided in the history of the Scottish ring.

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On this day: Juan Manuel Marquez stunns the boxing world

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When Manny Pacquiao – Juan Manuel Marquez IV was announced that there is more than dissatisfaction among boxing boxing members. This concept will quickly be eliminated by rounds 37 to 42 tetralogy, which was probably the best of the group. The fight would gain a distinction between “Fight of the Year 2012”, but will be remembered for one unforgettable and destructive right fight after 2 minutes of 59 sixth round forever.

The previous three meetings between the couple were extremely close fights that could go both ways. Nevertheless, historical books will always be surrounded by two decision-making victories for Pacquiao and one 12-round draw after all three competitions hit the results of judges. Three Ringside judges on December 8, 2012 at MGM Grand Garden Arena would not be needed.

The fight began clearly, from Pacquiao trademarks, and the speed of the hand was enough to take the first two rounds on the cards, but the shoot changed in the third place, when the juggernauta on the right from Marquez knocked Pacquiao for the first time in 39 rounds between the couple. Herring raised the crowd to his feet and noise to almost carrying the level of decibels. Pacquiao, undetermined by this failure, will recover and have caught caution on the wind in the fourth round, waging a war with Marquez, which was more than willing to get involved. Marquez, which has swelling under the right eye, was dropped in fifth place by a velvety meter, which leveled the number of knocking down at one by one. When Marquez returned to his feet, the stock market stock exchanges followed the fact that both warriors were tearing in a cruel and thundering hit. The sixth round lasted, in which the exhausting fifth ended – Pacquiao detonates numerous harmful blows when it began to approach the detention of a brave Marquez. However, when one second of the round remained, Manny’s momentum was going to stop.

When Pacquiao closed the range, popping up twice the left stab, Marquez plunged to the left and exploded with the most destructive blows to the Filipinos, which immediately disconnected Pacquiao from his consciousness. Tris Dixon, in the ring that night, described the changing game as a “compact, atomic right hand, wandered about five whole grave backswing [that] He was rammed directly in the face of Pacquiao. ”

Time became still when Pacquiao crashed onto the floor, which caused judge Kenny Bayless not even to serve the count. The fight is over.

Almost 17,000 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was silenced for a split second with a dramatic effect of a fist on the skull before exploding Mexican hysteria. Mexican fight fans finally won their victory to celebrate the great manny Pacquiao and did it happily. The increased contrast between these scenes and the shocking photos of the desperate wife Pacquiao, Jinkee, on the large screen, would somehow qualify the colossal historical significance of Marquez’s knockout.

That night, Marquez had the moment of defining his career, while Pacquiao will be able to decide whether he would extend his long and glorious ring career further, whether he would go away from sport and focused on a demanding congress calling. It testifies to the strength of the character and passion of Pacquiao to this sport that he chose the first and that three years after his destructive defeat with Marquez, boxing boxing fans in 2015 saw one of the biggest fights between the rejuvenated Pacquiao and the still pound-carrier king Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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