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Tongan Terror Kitionone Lave
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In recent years, the British rings have been full of foreign boxers and are a spine for many shows of diminutive halls taking place in the country. Most of these boxers come from Eastern Europe and there are almost all “journeymen” with long -term records. In the 1950s, many bills in Great Britain also included foreign fighters from all over Europe and the community of nations, but the import standard was much higher at the time than in today’s case. A typical bill on the Earls Court, in which Freddie Mills was a promoter, can easily include the Belgian, Frenchman, South Africa and Ghana. People like Roy Ankrah, Dave Sands, Duilio Loi and Yolande Pompey could be seen next to the top -shelf Londonians during this period. Wardrobes were like a mini version of the United Nations.
One of the men who came to Great Britain in 1955 was the heavyweight of Kitione Lave, known to fans of the fight from Great Britain as “Tongan Terror”, and Fresh Zealanders and Australians, where he had previously lit the trail in 1953 and 1954, as “Torpedo Tongan”.
Queen Tonga came to Great Britain for the coronation of the queen in 1953, and she caused a sensation during the royal procession because of her enthusiasm, warmth and highly colorful clothing. British public opinion warmed up to her and there was something like that for all things Tongan. When Kitione arrived in 1955, he did it with the support of his queen and was expected of great things from him. His world crashed very quickly when he was stuck by Johnny Williams, a former British and community of a massive community, in Sparkbrook in Birmingham. Lave was planted three times and stopped in the first round. The competition was described by the BN as “farce almost”. He certainly can’t come back.
Kitione slowly rebuilt his reputation thanks to the crushing one -time victory over Manny Burgo in a low West Hartlepool competition. He continued his rapid victories over Eddie Hearn (Batterstea) and Nosher Powell, although between these two victories there was a loss of a point for the next high quality heavyweight, Joe Bygrave.
Then Tongan was invited back to Sparkbrook to the 10-Runda against another British and community community, Jacek Gardner, and this time the roles were reversed. According to BN: “In the catastrophic first round, Gardner was dropped in two cases” five “and” nine “on the jaw rights. His left eye was noted and was hit from the pillar to the position. At no time during the competition he did not look like a winner. “Unfortunately, the judge did not agree, because at the end of the fight she raised Gardner’s hand, to the surprise of the crowd.
Two more quick wins against the European opposition led to Lave on another former heavyweight champion, Don Cockellwho had his second competition since he was erased by Rocky Marciano last year. Cockell was adapted to Gardner to a free British heavyweight title, and both men boxed at this account at Earls Court in sultry -up competitions. They were both supposed to lose badly. Lave just killed Cockella, dropping him six times in two rounds, in which the competition lasted. Gardner was similarly arranged by Bygraves, this competition also ended in the second round. Never before, two men have not adapted to the British heavyweight title, and they both immediately retired, paving the path of Joe Erskine to pick up a free crown.
As the Lave and Bygraves award, they were adapted to the empty title of the community of nations, but at full distance Lave was far behind. For a few more years he boxed both in Europe and in the United States, but he never fully pushed into the world. He will be remembered, like his queen, for the excitement he brought to Great Britain in these gray post -war years.
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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 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.
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On this day: Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas are sharing, fouls and exhilarating violence
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May 29, 2025
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.

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