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Yesterday’s heroes: Original Mexican roads
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On October 14, 1980, it will be remembered as a black day in a British professional boxing, and a particularly low point between the editor and the employee Boxing news and leading British promoters at that time, Mickey Duff and Mike Barrett.
This sport has already turned out to be a complex situation of Johnny Owen, who lay in a coma after his competition with a Lupe pin (and who was to die just a few weeks later), the terrifying spectacle of the last Muhammad Ali competition Ali against Larry Holmes and the shameful scenes that occurred after the defeat of Alan Minter with Marvin Hagler. Then we had a show at Royal Albert Hall in the above -mentioned dates.
. Bn The headline said everything: “Oh, what a garbage load”, and the editor Harry Mullan added further criticism with the initial words of his column: “There is no excuse, no justification for this pair of the tournament.”
Four Mexican imports fell into leading British fighters in just seven rounds, and during a program consisting of seven competitions, this meant that fans saw little actual boxing and virtually no quality. On Undercard, the upcoming Mark Kaylor stuck a one-time pretender into a welterweight, Peter Morris from Bridgnorth in five unilateral rounds, Joe Jackson from Coventry upset Davey Armstrong in “Undlid-Bout, who drew Boos and a tardy slap of the crowd,” and Gary Nickels paid Billy Straub in the Eight luminaires, at least, as at least as a competition.
Then a defeat appeared. Jimmy Flint, a gigantic blow to Wapping, detained Cordobes Lopez in two rounds, and BN comments that “Bob Galloway’s intervention would be justified far earlier.” Then Cornelius Boza-Edwards stopped Roberto Torres on the cut eyebrow in the second round of the fight, which “from the first minute of the opening round, it turned out that the fight had no chance of distance”, this was the difference in the class between them.
Dave Boy Green returned from his last defeat from Sugar Ray Leonard, and therefore it could be justified the fact that he was released, but his opponent, Mario Mendez, assured “little to defeat. He produced a strange flash of a talented, clever warrior who could have been years ago, but his determination against Green was not made of iron. “
Finally, we came to the Headliner between Charlie Magri and Enrique Castro. This lasted only one round and “there was not a boxing match between two evenly matched players as one -sided beating.” Castro was brave, but completely outclassed.
Duff and Barrett claimed that their American match, Don Chagrin, provided them with details suggesting that all four Mexicans were worthy opponents of British boys. For example, Castro reportedly took part in the eight previous competitions this year, and they all won. With a benefit in retrospect, especially boxing, we can now see the truth; Castro fought only once this year, victory over Raul Bacheco for the Flyight weight title in Baja California and suffered two knockout losses in 1979. In 1979 in just three rounds. He apparently did not fit Magri.
Similarly, Mendez lost all his previous five duels at a distance and did not fight for two years, Lopez lost four out of the previous six, and Torres won only one of the last seven. Of course, Duff and Barret were flowed down the river by American advisers and had to criticize the chin, just like the board that approved opponents.
Fortunately, during the next concert in this iconic place, Duff and Barrett pulled out all the stops, the victory of Tony Sibson over Matteo Salvemini for the European average title, which is Humdinger, and Charlie Magri overtook Santosa Laciar in a much harder competition against the world Argentine.
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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales
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May 29, 2025
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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