Browsing Tag Danny Lopez

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  Fight City Reviews 2

  Las Glorias del Gran Puas

  “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” — George Best The Northern Ireland footballer’s famous quip is less ...

  On November 20, 2020 / By Rafael García
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  Nov. 16, 1979: Arguello vs Chacon

  Bobby Chacon had been an overnight sensation in California, a popular young fighter attracting big crowds to the Inglewood Forum and the Olympic Auditorium. But as quickly as ...

  On November 16, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Reviews 3

  Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

  In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...

  On August 12, 2020 / By Rafael García
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  July 21, 1982: Sanchez vs Nelson

  There’s that old 1960s query: what if they had a war and no one came? Considering the 1982 clash between featherweights Salvador Sanchez and Azumah Nelson, the better ...

  On July 21, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  June 4, 1971: Napoles vs Backus II

  Cuba’s messy political issues in the last half-century have made for countless stories of struggle and triumph, though more the former than anything else. From rafting across shark-infested ...

  On June 4, 2020 / By Patrick Connor
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  Feb. 28, 1973: Napoles vs Lopez II

  They call boxing the cruelest sport for a number of reasons, one of them being that no matter how talented or dedicated a boxer is, his success ultimately ...

  On February 28, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Feb. 2, 1980: Sanchez vs Lopez I

  Danny “Little Red” Lopez had won the WBC version of the featherweight crown in 1976 and no one begrudged him the title. This was because Lopez, contrary to ...

  On February 2, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Salvador Sanchez: Counterpunch

  “I’m convinced that Salvador Sanchez was the best Mexican fighter of all time. Even better than Julio Cesar Chavez.”    — Wilfredo Gomez “The greatest Mexican fighter of all-time ...

  On January 26, 2020 / By Lee Wylie
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  Jan. 24, 1982: Pedroza vs Laporte

  Few champions have ever won as many world title matches as Panama’s Eusebio Pedroza and yet the prolific featherweight’s career is defined more by who he didn’t fight ...

  On January 25, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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  Jan. 14, 1984: Mancini vs Chacon

  Boxing is not an old man’s sport and over the decades there have been plenty of what we might call “passing-the-torch” fights, when age gives way to younger ...

  On January 14, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

  We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our ranking of the best to ever lace up ...

  On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Features 3

  Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?

  Michael Carbert: Several years ago I wrote up a Top 12 Greatest All-Time Mexican Boxers list and to my delight, it inspired some consternation. I’ve wanted to revisit ...

  On December 28, 2018 / By Rafael García
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  Remembering Bobby Chacon

  Sometimes the price of glory is steep and painful. In the case of Bobby Chacon, it would appear, at least to those who have never known what it ...

  On September 7, 2016 / By Robert Portis