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Monday, January 12th, 2009THE PUERTO RICAN PARALLEL
By Jim Amato
In 1966 two heavyweights of Puerto Rican heritage turned professional. Each would have an impact on the talent rich heavyweight division of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Their careers would mirror each others and they even took the time to cross gloves on a couple of occasions. [...]
JOSE TORRES
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Jose Torres
By Jim Amato
There was a time in the mid 60’s that revolved around who would be Muhammad Ali’s next opponent. The former Cassius Clay was chewing up and spitting out challengers with alarming ease. His hold on the heavyweight title was reaching the point of fan boredom. Few could see any [...]
CHRIS JOHN : AN INVISIBLE CHAMPION
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Indonesia’s Chris John is an undefeated world champion. He has held that status since 2003. Still he is hardly ever mentioned in boxing columns or wire reports. I’ve never seen him on anybody’s pound for pound rating lists. He has boxed professionally for a decade now but he has become an invisible champion.
On February [...]
SIR HENRY COOPER
Friday, January 9th, 2009He came from a fighting family and by the time his boxing career ended in 1971 he was the most beloved British boxer of all time. Only once did he challenge for the World’s title but he dominated the British heavyweight scene for over fifteen years. His popularity soared even more after [...]
RAFAEL PINEDA
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Rafael Pineda was really a good fighter, a former champion who most fans remember as being outclassed by a prime Pernell Whitaker (who wasn’t back then). In reality Pineda was a contender from the late 80’s to 2004. Rafael was a dangerous fighter !
Pineda turned pro in 1986 and won his first 20 fights. In [...]
BRIAN LONDON
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009The British produced some quality heavyweights during the 1950’s and 60’s. Of course ” Ol’ ” Enry ‘ Cooper comes to mind. There was rugged Joe Erskine and Wales gave us Dick Richardson. Later Billy ” The Golden Boy ” Walker would emerge. One of the best was Brian London who would twice fight [...]
AARON ” SUPERMAN ” DAVIS
Monday, January 5th, 2009He may be one of the most overlooked champions of the 1990’s. He had style and skill. He won 49 of 55 bouts and a piece of the welterweight title. He knocked out 31 but he himself was never stopped. His name was Aaron Davis and they called him ” Superman “.
Davis was born in [...]
Rodrigo Valdez: He was “Badder Then Bennie”
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Despite his recent loss to Jermain Taylor the respect for Bernard Hopkins
and his addition to the legacy of great Philly fighters has not waned. The
great city of Philadelphia has produced an array of world-class
middleweights over the years. Hopkins has brought great pride to the long
line of Philly middleweights who came before him: [...]
HANDS OF STONE : The Life And Legend Of Roberto Duran
Friday, January 2nd, 2009HANDS OF STONE : The Life And Legend Of Roberto Duran
Author: Christian Giudice
Roberto Duran is my favorite fighter of all time. Because of this fact I thought I may be a little bias in my opinion of the book ” Hands Of Stone “. Would I over rate it because the subject was Duran [...]