This day in boxing. A look back.

[IamInuit]

Oct 30


Fight of the day. A daily double.


1974: Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman


How that overrated bum, chicken, fight fixer Ali managed to make Foreman into a human pinata is anyone's guess. Some kind of Cinderella man I suppose or maybe George ate a bad cabbage.


1982: Marvin Hagler vs Fulgencio Obelmejias



1906: Abe Attell W 20 Harry Baker, Los Angeles. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1933: Vince Dundee W 15 Lou Brouillard, Boston. Wins New York & NBA Middleweight Title.

Dundee “won by side-stepping most of his (Brouillard’s) savage rushes and driving him back with a light but effective right to the head… Vince relied almost entirely on his superior boxing skills. As he moved east and west to escape the Worcester youth’s furious lunges he ripped a looping right to Lou’s head. This did not bother Brouillard in the slightest but they went for points and when the contest ended he had enough to give him a slight lead in eight rounds. The verdict … was unanimous.”

(New York Times)

1939: Henry Armstrong KO 4 Bobby Pacho, Denver. Retains World Welterweight Title. Armstrong’s 5th defense in 21-days. And again with this Armstrong guy.

1974: Muhammad Ali KO 8 George Foreman, Kinshasa, Zaire. Regains World Heavyweight Title.

1977: Luis Estaba W 15 Netmoi Vorasingh, Caracas. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1982: Marvin Hagler KO 5 Fulgencio Obelmejias, San Remo, Italy. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1986: Joe Manley KO 10 Gary Hinton, Hartford. Wins IBF Super lightweight Title.

1993: Orzoubek Nazarov W 12 Dingnaan Thobela, Johannesburg, SA. Wins WBA Lightweight Title.

1998: Arthur Williams KO 9 Imamu Mayfield, Biloxi, MS. Wins IBF Cruiserweight Title.
-Cesar Bazan W 12 Mauro Lucero, Mexico City. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

2004: Yutaka Niida W 12 Juan Landaeta, Tokyo, Japan. Retains WBA Strawweight Title.

2008: Anselmo Moreno W 12 Rolly Matsushita, Panama City. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

[greynotsoold]

To this day I don't know how Gomez beat Zarate. I've read that Zarate was sick that day and it must be true. But Gomez was dangerous.
I watched the Czyz/Williams fight at a Mexican restaurant. At the next table were Richie and Alberto Sandoval and their father.