Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick
Quote Originally Posted by tempostile
Vazquez-Marquez II honored!
WBHF Fight of the Year
The accolades continue for WBC Super Bantamweight champion Israel "Magnifico" Vazquez after his two thrilling wars against Rafael Marquez. The World Boxing Hall of Fame has announced that they'll be awarding Vazquez vs. Marquez with "fight of the year" honors at their induction ceremony to be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California on Saturday. "I feel thrilled," said Vazquez when he heard the news. "To get such recognition is unbelievable." This is the second time for Vazquez. He also received the distinction in 2006 after his KO win over Jhonny Gonzalez. Vazquez's manager, Frank Espinoza, will be awarded "manager of the year" honors. Espinoza was recently inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame. Vazquez and Espinoza received the news at the press conference held at The Santa Ana Winery to announce the inductions of Ricardo "Finito" Lopez, Larry Holmes, Gerald McClellan, Alvaro "Yaqui" Lopez, George Benton, Joe Cortez, Steve Albert and Efren Torres.
I hope to be there tomorrow for the induction unfortunately I have somewhere to be late night but I'm gonna try and get some pictures taken and autographs.....



Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
How can you hand out a Fight of the Year award when there's still 3 months left in the year?
Cause they usually have their induction weekends in Oct. so they hand out fighter of the year, fight of the year comeback of the year and all that.
Good luck getting to the event Mick I'd love to get a chance to see that.

Just for me can you try and get a shot of you and little Alden from youtube, my alter ego according to Boxing Gorilla.

Many coolclicks for you if you can get that shot