Jose 'Pipino' Cuevas vs. Pete Ranzany ~ 'WBA Welterweight Championship'

[Bill Paxtom]

Pete Ranzany

'I hit 'Pipino' Cuevas with everything in the 1st-Round. I couldn't dent him. I did send him back on his heels
a few times, but he was so strong."

"I was tagging him with good 'left-right' combinations, and I could not slow him down."

"I landed a perfect left-hook on his chin {1:37 Mark}, and my fist bounced off it like it was a block of granite.
That was the first time I was worried. I was amazed at his chin, as he took the punch like it was nothing."

"In 1978, he would have beaten Carlos Palomino or Wilfred Benitez with ease. Ray Leonard was nowhere in
his league at that time. And Roberto Duran would have been 'creamed' in 1978."