Marco Antonio Barrera in PTS 12 Johnny Tapia~
November 2, 2002; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
This is not classic, but it is worth visiting again as a reminder of these two irresistible fighters. Barrera was probably the best at that time, while taping, try his best, he could not conjure up his highest form. Perhaps this partly applies to Barrera’s perfection, so natural, so bright in the ring, which did not allow the aging taps to be abutment. But Tapia, winning his first seven -digit payment day, showed a lot of classes. Ultimately, Barerra won the results of 118-110 twice and 116-112 to preserve his world championships in a featherweight.

Do you know? At the back of the shorts, Barrera was the name “tapia”. It was not, as it was often, a tribute to Johnny, but instead a tribute to his mother, whose maiden name was tapia.

Watch out for: Changing tactics from both. Tapia effectively falls into the opening round only so that Barrera changes the attack line. In the second half of the competition Tapia, a witness that it is sent, forces the exchange inside to refer to a larger (but not sufficient) success.

Jacek Bodell’s record as a lithe weight in 1962–1967, when he challenged the British and the community of the weighty community against Henry Cooper, is unusual because he fought no less than 49 times in these five years. At that time it was a fairly enormous number for every professional, especially in lithe and weighty. The reason he did this can be explained by the fact that his manager was George Biddles from Leicester.

Venerable George in the corner of Jack can be seen during Bodella’s last fight against Danny Mcalinden in 1972. George has been in boxing for over 50 years and was, together with Alex Griffiths, probably the most influential central, involved in the game. He was known that his boxers were working. It is no accident that two men who fought most often in the British history of the Ring, Len Wickwar and George Marsden, were managed by George. The cynic would argue that the more times his boxers fought, the more commission he could take. There may be some truth in this, but many boys asked George to manage them because they knew that they could also earn more on him.

Take, for example, cases of Jeff Tite, Ric Sanders and Roy Davies. All three were vigorous in the overdue 1940s and in the 1950s, and all three competed around the same weight. Tite boxed 82 times in five years, Sanders 109 times in the same number of years, and Davies had 106 competitions in seven years. Between them they won 187 of these 297 matches, so they were not cups, and yet only one of them won the area title. They were such fighters who were biddles bread and butter. They often fought with the same bill, because the breakthrough George was well known to the promoters at the time that they could provide productive, well -conditioned boxers, often in a low time where you can rely. George had a stable full of such boxers.

I am lucky that I have some biddles journals and notebooks in my collection from this period. For example, I see that on June 7, 1948 he matched all three boys on the account in Northampton, and Sanders earns 65 pounds for eight -sized Eric Hall, and both Davies and Tite earned 40 pounds for supporting eight runes against George Frost and Jackie Hart. It was good money in 1948, when the average weekly wage for a working man was about 7 pounds. Biddles, who would accompany three warriors in his car and worked with the house with the house, did not do so badly with his 25 -month commission.

Boxing was the life of George and conducted his operation from his snack bar, properly called the “ring” in Belgrave Gate in Leicester, his hometown. His father, in medium weight, had a decent career as a professional before the First World War during the service in the LeiceStertershire regiment. George was alone in 1924, twice in boxing in Leicester, winning and losing. In 1927 he founded as a manager, initially dealing with Siku Culton from Mansfield, who in a real Biddles style had 157 competitions in nine years as a professional. Over the next 50 years, George could be seen at shows throughout the country, but he had to wait until 1957 before he had his first world champion, Hogan Bassey from Nigeria, providing George with this honor.

If it was a job and experience that you wanted as a warrior, along with constant income, then George was your man. There were only 11 British fighters who fought 300 times, and three of them managed Biddles. For those who want to learn more about this extraordinary man, his life story has been discussed in detail Bn From July to December 1978.

Larry Holmes had one of the best stabs in history, superhuman regenerative powers and intelligence, which shone through his extreme talent. First of all, he was the right guy in the wrong time.

Larry was the fourth of 12 children and this was the poverty of the family, he abandoned the school in the seventh grade and worked in a car wash to provide support. Larry began to box at the age of 19 and quickly found a martial art for his pleasure. He took part in Olympic rehearsals in 1972 in 22 years^ND Bout, but after disqualification, Dane Bobick decided on a professional.

In 1973, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton drew attention to the heavyweight at the top with such as Jerry Quarry, Joe Bugner and Ron Lyle, just below. The arrival of Holmes to the landscape became practically unnoticed.

But Ali and Frazier were soon aware of Larry, because he perfected his skills as their sparring partner, also working with Jimmy Newborn and Earnie Shavers, winning the fight after the fight. In 1978, Ali’s legs felt a long career burden, and the phrase and Foreman left over the years. The time has come for the invincible Holmes to hit, and after defeating Shavers in the eliminator, he was adapted to the leader of WBC Ken Norton.

Epic is an abused word, but it sums up this amazing clash; Power and pain collided when supremacy was thrown between two gladiators on the 15 largest rounds of heavyweight history. Holmes, who ignored the torn muscle in his left shoulder, was recognized as the winner of the cards and the legend should be born.

But the society was too busy with a claim for Ali, who after years of sluggish form created a performance that he reminded everyone, as he once was unique when he canceled Leon Spinks to apply for the WBA belt. But Ali did not want to fight Holmes, or at least not yet and he retired.

Larry reversed the challenges of Mike Weavera, Shavers and Scott Ledoux, before 38-year-old Ali left his pension in October 1980 to face Larry. The world wanted another miracle of Muhammad. Of course, it never came when Holmes stuck his friend in 10^th Round pension. Holmes attacked Ali as nicely as the boundaries of the prize ring allow, but his public attack on the national hero did not do much his popularity.

Broken condition of the heavyweight title, because the fans were forced to recognize at least one other master for the entire seven -year Holmes spell at the top. He dominated Trevor Berbick over the age of 15, he definitely detained Leon Spinks in three, and the hero’s rock White America, Gerry Cooney, over 13 rounds. This fight, from the racially charged accumulation (mainly to the promoter of Don King) to The Ring Walks (Holmes, Master, came first) was an ugly spectacle and it is not a surprise that Holmes was tired of the audience’s satisfaction.

Larry gave up the WBC belt so that he could throw Marvis Frazier in the round before modeling the newly formed version of the IBF title. Wins on James “Bonecrusher” Smith, David Bey and Carl Williams, and then, with his record at 48-0 (one of the flawless sum of Rocky Marciano), lost points with the ponderous champion Master Michael Spinks in 1985.

Many thought that Holmes deserved a verdict in the rematch, but after losing the divided decision he retired in the cloud of bitterness to convince himself of challenging the peak of Mike Tyson in January 1988. Holmes did not disgrace himself, his stab and movement frustrated the teenage lion, but Larry could not remain out of reach long enough to avoid the defeat of the fourth year.

It seemed that it was such, but with Tyson dropped from perch and the return of George Foreman, who ran a great business, Holmes returned in 1991, at the age of 41. The division almost as good as when it originally entered immediately 20 years earlier, Holmes proved its value, remaining in most decades, many ten -year -old, Olverfel, in 1992 and WBC, Olower. McCall, in 1995. He passed for good for good in 2002-probably more popular at the age of 52 than he was before-Erica Esch overtaken and moved his return record to 21-3.

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