Browsing Tag Salvador Sanchez

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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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  Aug. 21, 1981: Sanchez vs Gomez

  One of the always frustrating things about boxing is that so many of the obviously great match-ups just never happen. It’s a shame Jack Dempsey never faced Harry ...

  On August 21, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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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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  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 July 24, 2019 / 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 question ...

  On July 21, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...

  On July 7, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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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,” ...

  On May 22, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  May 19, 1985: 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 ...

  On May 19, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...

  On December 28, 2018 / By Rafael García
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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 ...

  On July 15, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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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 ...

  On May 6, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...

  On June 2, 2016 / By Robert Portis
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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, ...

  On August 29, 2015 / By Rafael García