Danny 'Little Red' Lopez ~ Career

[Bill Paxtom]

Professional Debut

Thursday ~ May 27, 1971 ....... Olympic Auditorium ~ Los Angeles, California

Main Event > Frankie Crawford vs. Tony Jumao-As

Danny Lopez - 0-0-0 {0 KO's} ~ 122 lbs. ~ {Age; 18 years, 10 months}
vs.
Steve Flajole - 2-0-1 {0 KO's} ~ 124 lbs. ~ {Age; 19 years, 6 months}
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Danny 'Little Red' Lopez made his professional debut against > Steve 'Ax Pole' Flajole from
Tacoma, Washington.

Danny {5' 7"} had a 4" height advantage over the {5' 3"} Tacoma visitor.

It was no contest, as Danny fired right-hand after right-hand over the top of his shorter
opponents left-jabs.

Danny dropped Flajole with '2' right-hands to the chin at the {0:55 Mark}. Flajole managed
to beat the count, and attempted to fight back.

But Danny was 'pin-point' with his right-hand punches, and dropped Flajoe again, where he
was counted out at the {1:44 Mark}.

[Bill Paxtom]

Thursday ~ June 17, 1971 ...... Olympic Auditorium ~ Los Angeles, California

Main Event .... Rodolfo Lobato vs. Vil Tumulak

Danny 'Little Red' Lopez - 1-0-0 {1 KO} ~ 119 1/2 lbs. ~ 5' 7"~ {Age; 18 years, 11 months}
vs.
Felix 'Fili' Castro - 3-0-1 {1 KO} ~ 119 lbs. ~ 5' 3" {Age; 19 years, 3 months}

Televised on > Channel 13 {KCOP}

Danny got a good write up before the bout. His original opponent > Jose Luis Estrada pulled
out 2-Days before the bout.
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Danny overwhelmed an undersized 'Fili' Castro, and deposited him on the canvas only 16-Seconds
into the bout after landing a hard right-hand to the head.

Castro was up at the '3-Count', and fought on. But Danny kept throwing bombs, and dropped
'Fili' again after tagging him with a 'left-right' to the chin just past the mid-way point the Round.

Referee - Rudy Jordan counted out Felix Castro @ 1:42 of the 1st Round.