Puerto Rico has been the proud home of many boxing champions throughout history. From Sixto Escobar, to Carlos Ortiz and Jose “Chegui†Torres, to Wilfredo Benitez, Wifredo Gomez and a host of other champions in Puerto Rico’s heyday of boxing in the 1980’s, the torch has always been passed to up-and-coming new champions that each…
For many of us fans, boxing enjoyed a period of great fights and great fighters in the late seventies and eighties, which has not been equaled since. Fighters like Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Arguello and others were in their heyday. The heavyweight division, arguably the most popular among many boxing fans, had Larry Holmes and…
(Tuesday Night Fights in Boston, MA) I was not too familiar with the boxers scheduled to fight on ESPN2’s Tuesday Night Fights, but the main event was in the middleweight division, so I figured I was very likely to be entertained. Little did I know that the real entertainment would come in a four-round under-card…
It was with great sadness that I reacted to Thomas “The Hit Man†Hearns’ recent announcement that he would be getting back into the ring at age forty-six. Hearns is one of my all-time favorite boxers. What I remember most about him is that he never seemed to have a boring, uneventful boxing match. ***The…
Boxing fans are an intense, excitable bunch. I should know, I am one of them. Most every boxing fan remembers the fight or fighter that got them interested in the sport. In my case, it was the first Ali-Frazier fight, back in 1971. The buildup prior to the fight was huge, at least by 1971…