Danny 'Little Red' Lopez ~ Career

[Bill Paxtom]

Thursday ~ June 21, 1973

Olympic Auditorium ~ Los Angeles, California

Television ......... Channel 13 {KCOP-TV}
Special Promo ....... Jim Healy {Announcer}

Danny Lopez - 18-0-0 {18 KO's} ~ 122 lbs. ~ 5' 7 1/2" ~ {Age; 20 years, 11 months}
vs.
Juan Ordonez - 24-3-2 {15 KO's} ~ 123 lbs. ~ 5' 5" ~ {Age; 23 years, 1 month}

Danny Lopez has had a 'special' mouthpiece made. As he had lost one of his front teeth
in his last bout with Cesar Ordonez, after taking a 'jarring' right to the mouth, with a loose fitting guard.

Juan Ordonez from Mexico City {no relation to Danny's last opponent Cesar Ordonez} is
ranked as Mexico's #5 Bantamweight.

Ordonez is a 'brick-layer' in Mexico City, and carries power in both fists, especially the right-hand.

Danny Lopez is listed as a {2-1} Betting-Favorite.

Danny Lopez >
"They rank me as a Bantamweight. But I'm really a 122 lb. Featherweight."

"I don't know a lot about Jose, but I have seen him here at the Main Street Gym. He has a good
right-hand, and looks like he comes to fight. Here we go again."

Jose Ordonez >
"They made a big mistake in taking me as an opponent. I have a hard right-hand that I have been
improving on in the Gym over the last 6-Months. Danny Lopez eats right-hands all night long. He
will fall within 3-Rounds."

~ Danny Lopez Featured In Main Event ~

~ Danny Lopez Scores 19th Straight KO Win ~

Danny 'Little Red; Lopez had little trouble with Mexican - Jose Ordonez, as he stopped Mexico's
#5 Bantamweight at 1;16 of Round 4.

'Little Red' dropped Ordonez in each of the first 3-Rounds, by landing his powerful right-hand
onto Ordonez' chin. After each knock-down, the Mexican bounced up quickly.

Ordonez, a brick-layer by trade in Mexico City, had come in with a reputation as a big right-hand
power-puncher. But the Mexican could never get close enough to the tall-and-rangy Los Angeles
based Lopez.

Each time that the 5' 5" Ordonez moved within range, the nearly 3" taller Lopez sent in stiff
right-hands over Ordonez' left-hand, jarring him time and again.

In Round 4, Lopez came blazing-out with a non-stop 'two-fisted' barrage, and drove Ordonez
from pillar-to-post across the Ring.

By the {0:50 Mark}, Ordonez was bleeding badly from the mouth, and retreated to a Corner.

Lopez moved in, and sent in a 'left-right' to the head, followed by a jolting left-hook to the chin,
dropping Ordonez to his hands-and-knees.

The Mexican was counted out by Referee - Rudy Jordan at the {1:16 Mark} of Round 4.

[Bill Paxtom]

Tuesday ~ July 31, 1973

International Center Arena ~ Honolulu, Hawaii

Main Event > ........ Chango Carmona vs. Shinichi Kadota

Danny Lopez - 19-0-0 {19 KO's} ~ 123 1/2 lbs. ~ 5' 7 1/2' ~ {Age; 21 years, 0 months}
vs.
Ushiwakamaru Harada - 30-15-11 {13 KO's} ~ 124 3/4 lbs. ~ 5' 4" ~ {Age; 25 years, 8 months}

Danny 'Little Red' Lopez is still rated as the #5 WBC and #5 WBA Bantamweight, though he's
been campaigning at 122 lbs. for the past year-and-a-half.

This will be Danny's '1st-bout' outside of California.

Ushiwakamaru Harada is the younger brother of former World Bantamweight Champion
'Fighting' Harada.

Ushiwakamaru has been campaigning since 1965, and is an experienced 8-Year Professional.
He's a former 2-Time Japanese Bantamweight Champion
* March 19, 1967 -thru- January 4, 1968
* October 24, 1968 -thru- November 26, 1969

Currently, he's ranked as the #3 Featherweight in his home country.

Harada is a fast and powerfully-built brawler, who is very tough, as he comes barreling
straight in with winging punches.

[Bill Paxtom]

Tuesday ~ July 31, 1973

International Center Arena ~ Honolulu, Hawaii

Main Event > ........ Chango Carmona vs. Shinichi Kadota

Danny Lopez - 19-0-0 {19 KO's} ~ 123 1/2 lbs. ~ 5' 7 1/2' ~ {Age; 21 years, 0 months}
vs.
Ushiwakamaru Harada - 30-15-11 {13 KO's} ~ 124 3/4 lbs. ~ 5' 4" ~ {Age; 25 years, 8 months}

Danny 'Little Red' Lopez is still rated as the #5 WBC and #5 WBA Bantamweight, though he's
been campaigning at 122 lbs. for the past year-and-a-half.

This will be Danny's '1st-bout' outside of California.

Ushiwakamaru Harada is the younger brother of former World Bantamweight Champion
'Fighting' Harada.

Ushiwakamaru has been campaigning since 1965, and is an experienced 8-Year Professional.
He's a former 2-Time Japanese Bantamweight Champion
* March 19, 1967 -thru- January 4, 1968
* October 24, 1968 -thru- November 26, 1969

Currently, he's ranked as the #3 Featherweight in his home country.

Harada is a fast and powerfully-built brawler, who is very tough, as he comes barreling
straight in with winging punches.

~ Danny Lopez In Wild 2-Round War, Scores TKO ~

~ Lopez Finds Himself In Another Battle ~

Danny 'Little Red' Lopez saw 'red' Tuesday Night, as he was again battered in the 1st-Round of
another bout, before coming back to score a stoppage over his opponent.

In the Opening Round, Japan's Ushiwakamaru Harada came out by firing a series of over-hand
rights into Lopez', driving the undefeated fighter into the Ropes, where he took a one-sided
hammering from the Japanese fighter's fists.

Lopez had his face reddened, as he was tagged by numerous right-hands to the head and face
during a 3-Minute onslaught.

But in Round, 2, Lopez was able to get some distance over his shorter opponent, and came back
with hard left-hooks and stiff right-hand leads as Harada moved forward and walked into 'jarring'
punches from Lopez.

By the {2:00 Mark}, Harada had blood drawn from his nose, and he was sporting a cut over his
right-eye.

Lopez unloaded a barrage on Harada over the last 25-Seconds of the 2nd-Round, that had the
Japanese fighter on wobbly-legs at the Bell.

In between Rounds 2 and 3, the Ringside Physician checked out the cut over Harada's right-eye,
and deemed it too serious to allow the bout to continue.

It will go down as a TKO 3 win for the still 'undefeated' Danny Lopez.