El Flaco Explosivo - Remembering Alexis Arguello
By Daxx Kahn July 7th, 2009 All Boxing ArticlesGrowing up as children, one of the hardest things we learn to deal with is reality. It just baffles our little minds when we find out Santa Claus is not real, that Superman is just a cartoon and our favorite athletes put on their pants one leg at a time, just like everyone else.
The only thing that seems unreal when finding these things out is the fact that they are the truth. But, in time we learn to deal with it and though at the moment we feel our world has come to an end, we eventually accept these truths.
As adults, the truth, while we have learned to accept it at times, does not make it any easier. The news that broke on Wednesday, July 1st that Alexis Arguello was dead was one of those times.
As a kid growing up, Alexis, to me, was every hero one could ever imagine all rolled up into one small 135lb package.
Alexis' televised fights were events in my house. My parents, uncles, aunts and cousins all gathered around the TV to watch our our man Arguello conquer opponent after opponent in a fashion that only he could.
We would scream at every punch landed and celebrate in between rounds, even before the bout was finished, confident that the champion from Managua, Nicaragua would rise up victorious before the night was through. More...


































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