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My Night: Darren Barker wins one of the biggest good victories in the history of British boxing

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Darren Barker

I remember when the fight was signed as clearly as the day. I just came back from the fight of my Stablemate Lee Purdy with Devon Alexander, being in his corner in Atlantic City. My mother graduated to become an assistant to the midwife and we were on the southern shore in London. We went to finish it and after passing one of the Thames bridges, I went to a drink and something to eat with my close family. The phone rang and it was my promoter, Eddie Hearn. Everyone looked when they wondered if it would be a fight or, worse, a call to say that it would not happen. I waited outside when they came in, and Eddie said that everything was signed and done. This has become a double holiday.

I knew Daniel Geale Summer Earlier, and our careers were parallel, except that he won the world championship title. He won half -two -red gold at the Games of the Nations Community in 2002, and I won slightly. You always watch your rivals and I always liked that I could beat him. I was glad that it was in Atlantic City because I wanted to buy back here, it was one thing against me after I lost to Sergio Martinez in 2011.

We started the camp at the venerable Tony Sims gym in Hainault. It was a fantastic camp, I practically didn’t run and worked a lot on the trampoline. Two weeks before the fight we went to Jersey City and made a few sprints. We found a good gym in Novel Jersey, where I saved Ossa Duran. In the area he was tranquil, not as manic as the nearby Novel York. It was me, tons [assistant coach] Marl Seltzer and my brother Lee. Everything went so well.

During the 14-week training camp I was sure for 13 weeks and six days. But on the day of the fight I don’t know why, I got a wave of doubt, it was terrible. I sat in a hotel room, thinking: “What’s going on?” Also in the locker room I tapped inside for some reason and it was really tender. I thought, “I don’t really want to be hit with a good shot.” When I went to the toilet, my team convinced MC, Michael Bufa, to say: “And up-to-date …”

There was a immense group of my friends at the entrance of the ring, so I heard a lot of cheer and chanting for me. I didn’t feel so far from home. In his entrance there was a guy playing Didgeridoo, which snatched me, made me really livid and aggressive, I think that it did more for me.

To be sincere, the opening round was a huge surprise. Our game plan was to fight for him, be clever, act on the front foot, but employ bright boxing and my speed. But Geale was disingenuous awkward, speedy on his legs and was able to get out of the range by a fraction, so I ended a bit. He was slippery on the legs, and after this round we decided to go hell to the skin, turn it into a fight. I had to be before him, letting the arrows go.

From that time to the sixth round I remember that I won. The adopted plan of the game worked and I returned to the whole reason to sacrifice this fight to Gary, my younger brother and other boxer who died of a car accident in 2006.

Then it came to the sixth round. Raniuk hurt me earlier. It was in Canada when I met Larry Sharpe in my 18 Pro Fight; I did not fall, but the shot remained with me throughout the fight. Against Geale, we both went to a chance when we were close, my body was exposed and he landed a fantastic left. My breath was taken immediately, and then it was simply excruciating pain. I was on the floor and you know how people say your life is flashing in your eyes? It was a bit and the longest nine and a half seconds of my life. I fought my breath and thought about my daughter Scarlett – my son Charlie was not born only in 2014 – my goals and ultimately my brother. I thought, “I can’t stop, it’s not fair, that’s not the point.” It was the most valuable half second in history. I got up and the judge asked if everything was all right. I tried to answer, but I couldn’t talk, and when the words finally appeared, they were a elevated, squealing, vitime voice. Then I was in pure survival mode for the rest of the round. Geale is a great finisher and he was shot from shots. It was a challenging period, but I arrived until the end of the round.

I returned to the corner and Tony said: “Are you okay?” And I apologized immediately. The rounds immediately after six were probably my best, seventh best of all. I was on the front foot, better boxing, increasing my range.

I put my eye and move my feet. Everything was approaching, but I had it in my head that I didn’t want to go down again, I knew I couldn’t afford it.

At the end of 11. Tony and I raised my hands and thought that I just had to survive. In the last bell I and Tony were over the moon. We knew that the fight was close and that the promoter of my opponent staged the series, but I am forcing the pace. Eddie Hearn got on the ring and said: “This is close, I don’t know how they will choose it here”, which made him question.

But I had an immediate feeling that I had done enough. My brother Lee saw Michael Buffer’s results card just before the announcement, and on the materials you can see how he runs to my family with a great, insolent smile, and then he started to panic in case he was wrong.

Then came the announcement that I won the Geale IBF title according to Split’s decision. These are the moments you dream about: Buffer announced the winner in the fight for the title of world champion in America. Perfect. I was very emotional, crying with my eyes, but they were not tears of joy. Part of me was gloomy because I made my life work to get the world title for my brother and I achieved it that night, so I thought: “What can I do for my brother now?”

I don’t think I’m physically at the top of this fight. I changed the way I trained and was as competent as always, but I fought with injuries, my elbows were really bad, very sore. But saying, I wouldn’t have the same experience a few years earlier.

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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales

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Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales
November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.

Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.

Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlipjgecq

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On this day: Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas are sharing, fouls and exhilarating violence

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Felix Trinidad

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngk4rafo574

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When Jack Johnson visited Great Britain

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Jack Johnson

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.

Jack Johnson had to chase his fight with Tommy Burns

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.

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