Browsing Tag Salvador Sanchez
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Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?
Michael Carbert: A few 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 ...
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Boxiana 2
Aug. 21, 1981: Sanchez vs Gomez
One of the frustrating things about the sport of boxing is that some of the best match-ups never happen. It’s a shame Jack Dempsey never faced Harry Wills ...
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Boxiana 5
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 question ...
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Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse
The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting for since 2013. Before Lucas Matthysse’s trail of ...
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July 7, 1985: Chavez vs Mayweather I
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only problem is pretty much no one north of ...
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May 22, 1982: Arguello vs Ganigan
The rise of Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez put the nation of Nicaragua on the boxing map again, but in fact it was over 40 years ago that “El Flaco Explosivo,” ...
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May 19, 1995: Gomez vs Lockridge
In recent years Rocky Lockridge has unfortunately become as well-known for his appearance on the television show “Intervention” and the visceral cry of pain that launched countless internet ...
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The Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred kick-ass boxing website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and a spirited debate regarding who are the best Mexican ...
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Boxiana 1
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 the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died before their time. Such deaths are tragic almost by definition, but in the case of the young ...
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Lee Wylie 5
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 “He consistently showed the understanding ...
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Top Men: Greatest Mexican Boxers
Fight fans are avidly looking forward to this Saturday night as we have what should be an amazing all-action, all-Mexico showdown between two blood-and-guts warriors, Orlando Salido and ...
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A History of Violence – On Pacquiao vs Marquez IV
The polymath Nassim Taleb submits that a system in which volatility is suppressed is an ideal catalyst for mayhem. Such a setting will behave as a ticking bomb, ...
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