10 “World” fighting for the title that took place in Valentine’s Day. Here is the full list below:

Jimmy Wilde in RTD 12 Joe Symonds – 1916
Wilde Wales said that IBU Flyight Honors in Covent Garden in his second victory over Symonds Plymouth.

Sugar Ray Robinson in RSF 13 Jake Lamotta – 1951
Robinson contested the elderly rival Lamott to become a middleweight champion in the massacre in St. Valentine’s Dassacre in Chicago.

Jose Naples in RSF 15 Ernie Lopez – 1970
Kuban Naples stopped WBC and WBA WELTER for the third time, stopping Lopez La in Inglewood.

Luis was 15 Leo Palacios – 1976
In the second of 11 successful WBA title defense for Estaba, Venezuelans triumphed in their native country.

Eusebio Pedroza at KO 13 PAT Ford – 1981
In his hometown of Panama City Pedroza held his WBA belt in a featherweight for the 11th time after the dominance of Ford Guyana.

Evander Holyfield in RSF 7 Henry Tillman – 1987
Holyfield retained his crown WBA Cruiser, driving a friend from the Olympic team in the USA in Reno in Nevada in 1984.

McGiRT Buddy in RSF 12 Frankie Warren – 1988
Fighting in the yard of Texas in Warren, Recent Yorker McGirt won the victory of revenge, as well as a free belt to super lightweight IBF.

Robert Quiroga at UD 12 Carlos Mercado – 1992
Italy was the environment when Texan Quiroga made the fourth triumphant defense of its title Super Flyight IBF.

Nate Campbell at MD 12 Ali Funeka – 2009
Floridian Campbell lost lightweight WBA, IBF and WBO stripes on the scales, but won in his family state against Funeka in South Africa.

Cristobal Cruz at UD 12 Cyril Thomas – 2009
At Away Turf in France, Cruz from Mexico successfully defended his IBF feather crown for the first time.

In a recent article about Alan Richardson, I commented that “he is another of the masters from the 70s who are threatened with forgetting.” I do not know the exact reason why the seventies, considered by so many to be a golden age, produced so many good scruples, which rarely receive a memory today, but I suspect that it may be because so little from what they achieved in the ring is easily accessible in the film.

The BBC and ITV destroyed a significant part of their archive in the early 1980s. It looks like they have preserved many top -shelf competitions that were broadcast on Sports Night with David Coleman the day after duels, but the fight against Karda, which were shown on the stand next Saturday, I undertook that the victim of great purge. That is why it is possible to see Alan Minter versus Kevin Finnegan on YouTube, but you will not find Mark Blush vs Tommy Wright, almost certainly shot and undoubtedly television on the stand. I tremble to think how many scraps with Jimmy Flint, so exhilarating a man to watch, was destroyed, or when it comes to, Jimmy Batten, Vernon Sollas and Gary Davidson.

Nowadays, boxers are spoiling with the number of materials that exist in their competitions. However, this is not for Tim Wood and Phil Martin’s families. Unfortunately, none of these great fighters is still with us because they both died youthful. They were not world, but they both went to the top of the British lithe unit, when he was crowded with very difficult people, including Johnny Frankham, Johnny Wall, Phil Matthews, Pat McCann, Roy John and Rab Affleck. I can’t find material for many attacks that took place between these warriors.

Tim Wood was born and bred in London, but moved to Midlands as a teenager. He joined Keystone ABC based in Kettering, almost as he arrived. After moving to the Leicester club in Belgrave, he became a heavyweight champion of ABA in 1972 by Hammeling Les McGowan from Speke in one round. Then he defeated him again, two months later, in the Olympic trial, but he was not elected to the GB Olympic team, because with a compact 13 stone it was too lithe to face powerful Eastern Europeans and Americans, not to mention the final gold medalist – Cuban Teofilo Stevenson.

After this Snubu, he began a professional and after non -toning in the ninth he suffered three elementary defeats, including a bad knockout at Eddi Neilson. This proves that the Olympic selectors were probably correct and Tim quickly returned to weighty weight.

Phil Martinwho boxed John Conteh in the final of the East Lancashire championships in 1971, he became a professional at the end of 1974 and won 10 of 11, when he was adjusted with Wood to question the British lithe title at the World Sporting Club, in Mayfair, in April 1976. Two competed for a free title, which took place in such a hondon by Chris Finnegan.

At that time, Conteh was the world champion, and neither Wood nor Martin were near the Finnegan or Conteh class. Roy John, a pretender at number one, was to fight Martin for an empty title, but he withdrew with an eye injury, so Wood, who was beaten by John in the eliminator of the title only five months earlier, was lucky.

Wood took the opportunity with both hands, exceeding a man from Manchester in 15 difficult rounds. Tim lost the crown at the beginning of the following year after flattening in one round by Bunny Johnson. It is a pity that it is now largely forgotten. Martin’s memory, however, remains crystal clear, after excellent work, which he then did with the “Champions camp”. But try to find a recording in the ring – it won’t be straightforward.

“You can’t overcome this-ruthless, frosty, dark-haired blows, both respected masters who will give and sacrificed everything to win. This 12-round one has key ingredients to produce the match as a fiery and passionate, like every past showdown all-maxicus.”

He said so Bn Before the Super Bantam Union of Kolids between the ruler of WBC Tijuany Erika Morales and the head of WBO Mexico Marco Antonio Barrera. And how right this description turned out to be when the two proud warriors went to the fingers on 12 brutal, unfettered and electrifying rounds. Even a warmly questioned application could not receive a captivating slaughter that was at the show.

During the accumulation, Moralees claimed that many years earlier he made Barrera aware of the sparring session. “The killer about the child’s face” said it was a slip and he was knocked out “only in Erik’s dreams”. The hostility between the couple was observable before the first bell, without touching the gloves to the last round.

Barrera won a lively opening session, and also took the next Stanza, his combination of left left -wing hook turned out to be particularly effective. The third and four rounds turned out to be peaceful before the storm, because from the fifth it was a war.

While Morales was always more busy, more explosive blows came from his rival. Barrera reacted to the bombing of the rights to excessive rank in the fifth, retreating spectacularly and trembling Erik, which led to a stunning roar of recognition from the boisterous crowd.

Barrera fought in the six and seventh rounds, while the tiring Morales shook the stabs and fixed laws. “El Freible” found himself in trouble on the ropes at eight, and Barrera is bursting with the left hooks in the enemy ribs. Bn He commented: “Like Morales, such a slim man, remained straight, testifies to his incomprehensible strength.”

The uncontrollable cruelty lasted until nine, when two Marco Antonio hooks crashed against the jaw of his opponent. Amazingly, Morales fired with a series of crushing rights that opened the wound on Barrera’s swollen left cheek.

A man from the Mexican capital went through the powerful right left with Morales in 10^th And I had to send many penalties to the last minute of the round, when the counterattack attack caused Erik’s shaking. The bloody and bruised Morales hit with laws and mountains when the rivals mentioned the blows.

Barrera’s inner work was extremely impressive in 11^th But Morales refused to give the land. In the final session, knocking was incorrectly caused when Erik slipped on one knee, throwing a hook. To fix balance, Morales threw himself at Barrera, and the couple went to her until the last bell.

Although Erik turned around The fight on the blows landed (319-299), Fortuna had continuous swings, with both boxers repeatedly marked. The general consensus in the ring was that Barrera did enough to report the verdict. But Morales made a controversial decision.

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