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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Although Ray Anderson and Doyle Baird received title shots and Billy Wagner came within one fight of garnering one, the State of Ohio’s best light-heavyweight in that era may have been overlooked. John Griffin of Cleveland holds a pair of wins over both Anderson and Wagner and he may have been too good for [...]
HOWARD DAVIS JR.
Friday, November 27th, 2009In many of my past articles I have touched on boxers who came so close to winning a world title but just fell short. Talented fighters who I have no doubt in today’s four title per weight division format would have garnered a piece of the pie. The extremely gifted Howard Davis Jr. would be [...]
BERNARDO “BOMBER” MERCADO
Saturday, November 21st, 2009As the talent rich 1970’s heavyweight picture faded into the 1980’s, Larry Holmes emerged as the dominant boxer. Still there were some very capable contenders. Among them was a 6′4″ brute from Columbia, South America named Bernardo Mercado.
Mercado was born on January 16, 1952. He was a fine amateur who won the 1975 Central America [...]
MIGUEL ESPINO ; GOOD CALL BY “TEAM PAVLIK”…
Friday, November 20th, 2009Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik was forced to make a decision. Fight or lose his title…Despite his well documented medical problems he was forced to confront this situation. In boxing’s bullshit politics it became a do or die call for Team Pavlik. Despite all the problems Kelly has endured they have made the decision to fight.
The [...]
LEO PODGORSKI PASSES AWAY
Friday, November 13th, 2009Former 1973 Chicago Golden Gloves 112 pound champion Leo Podgorski passed away Thursday morning from a heart attack. He was rushed to the Resurrection hospital in Chicago but was deceased on arrival. Leo was Chicago Park District 126 pound champion in 1975. His best wins were over Luis Aguilar and Brian Doherty. Leo trained amateurs [...]
AMOS ” BIG TRAIN ” LINCOLN
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009He was born in 1936 and he embarked on a professional boxing career in 1954. He won twenty five of his first twenty nine fights on his way to establishing himself as a top prospect by 1962. The imposing 6′ 2″ Amos Lincoln was nicknamed ” Big Train ” and he looked like he was [...]
RODOLFO ” GATO ” GONZALEZ
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009You would think that a boxer who won his first 52 bouts would get some recognition. Especially if he won 50 of those fights by knockouts. Quite an impressive streak that Rodolfo ” Gato ” Gonzalez started in 1959. Nevertheless there would be many turns ahead for Rodolfo on the road to stardom.
Rodolfo Gonzalez [...]
HALL OF FAME FOR JOSE LEGRA ?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009HALL OF FAME FOR JOSE LEGRA ?
He was a two time world champion and a perrenial contender for the featherweight title for more then a decade. In a fifteen year career he amassed 150 fights. He won 134 of them. At one point in his career he reeled off over 50 straight wins. Are these [...]
Cleveland’s Chuck Wilburn : Talent And Tragedy
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009He was a good prospect out of Cleveland in the early 70’s. The fortunes of Chuck Wilburn looked bright when he turned pro in 1970. He lost his second fight to Mike Harris but he stopped Harris in a rematch. He then went up to New England and beat some tough veterans like Beau Jaynes [...]
Manuel Ramos – Mexican Heavyweight
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009When you think of Mexican fighters it is usually a tough little hombre like a Ruben Olivares, Vincente Saldivar or Julio Cesar Chavez. More often then not the better battles from Mexico scaled under 160lbs. In an exception to the rule during the mid 60’s to the early 70’s this country produced a pretty fair [...]
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