This day in boxing. A look back.

[TitoFan]

I showed my friend that combination at the end and he was in awe. Had to rewind it multiple times for him as he could not believe them.

I was dying for someone to take Yo Vinny down a few pegs, and Roy did that admirably. A few fighters become instant favorites of mine after administering epic beatdowns to oversized egos. MAB was one, and Roy is another.

Why was Vinny Paz on your bad list? He seemed OK.

One of those outsized egos who thought he was God's Gift. Thought he was better than he really was, when in reality he was just a pug. Got a lot of notoriety from his comeback from injury, which of course is admirable, but just made him the bigger-than-life personality he always thought he was. Yo Vinny was a jerk.... and I thoroughly enjoyed his beating at the hands of RJJ.

I take it you will not be the first in the queue when his film comes out then?

You take it correctly.

[Beanz]

26 JUNE 1959 - Johansson v Patterson

[Beanz]

26 June 1972 - Duran v Buchanan


Just to prove that Ward did not invent punching people in the gonads

[Beanz]

26 JUNE 1993

Benn v Gent

So great to hear Reg and Jim the best double act of commentators we ever had on these shores (Ian Darke gets a special mention)

[Master]

That was peak Benn just getting ready to a rematch against Eubank.

[TitoFan]

June 26, 1976

Carlos Monzón vs. Rodrigo Valdez I

Two South American greats going at it.

[TitoFan]

6-28-91

Mike Tyson vs Donovan "Razor" Ruddock II (highlights)








Tyson went from those glory days to the following, exactly 6 years later to the day............