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Interesting story on the fight here. I watched it and it was a horrible decision. Up there with the worst of them.
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Interesting story on the fight here. I watched it and it was a horrible decision. Up there with the worst of them. -
There are loads of fighters, especially in the lower weight classes and generally in the flyweight division that seems to be forgotten in this section.
To name a few of them;
Tae-Shik Kim
Very fun Korean flyweight that reminds of Michael Katsidis stylistically and wanted to rip your head off with every punch. Look at his war against Peter Mathebula, you won’t be disappointed.
Alfonso Lopez
A Panamanian stylist that was like a hybrid between Hilario Zapata and Ernesto Marcel. Excellent technical skills and a very smooth operator that lacked any notable physical gifts, in this case mostly top durability and chin. He was never the same after his bouts with Guty Espadas.
Betulio Gonzalez
A crafty, well-schooled fighter that roboticised and lost his legs fairly quickly after his fight with Masao Ohba and started to rely more on his strength, will and sound technique than finesse to get the results he wanted. But look at his bout with Ohba, and you will see Gonzalez is very smooth and almost Conteh-esque with his quality mid-range work.
Pone Kingpetch
Good long-range technican that lacked a inside game. Thailand’s first ever world champion. Excellent jab, but could sometimes be very slow with it and throw it at the wrong moment. His K.O loss against Hiroyuki Ebihara was mainly due to that.
Shozo Saijo
A tall and lanky featherweight that is eerily similar to Alexis Arguello. Quality punching form, and he could really dig, despite his record not shows it.
Guty Espadas
Pressure oriented boxer-puncher, with good upper body movement and one of the most educated left-hands the flyweight division has seen.
Efren Torres
A well-schooled fighter with an offensive oriented textbook approach, like most of the 60’s and 70’s lower weights world-class Mexicans. Good technical skills and punching power. His fights against Chartchai Chionoi are a must watch for everyone, especially the first one.
Fidel Bassa
Bassa is probably the most Napoles-esque of the flyweights. Smooth foot and upper body movement and could fire off beautiful combinations. Could be hurt, but was able to weather the storm because of his grit. He was occasionally guilty of lunging in and sloppy delivery, something that Napoles never was.
Horacio Accavallo
Solid textbook technician with a well-rounded game. He was highly competitive in a very good era, but I would call him very good rather than great.
Walter McGowan
Very good boxing skills coupled with his fast and good footwork gave him very good outboxing capabilities. He had an excellent jab, and should have been a world champion if he hadn't been so cut prone. He made Chartchai Chionoi look like a total monkey.
Luis Ibarra
Smooth Panamanian fighter with good technical skills and good speed of both foot and hands. Mainly a counter-puncher with a good straight-left, but he could lose his patience and lunge in with his chin straight up and squaring up with his feet when he throwed his left straight, which made him vulnerable for counters.
Hiroyuki Ebihara
Well-rounded Japanese flyweight that fought with more ability in a similar yet more developed style as Manny Pacquiao. He could fight both at mid-range and inside, and his quick footwork made it possible for him to darting in and out of range and throw combinations.
Gilberto Roman
Top-notch textbook stylist that made up for what he lacked in the physical departments with his superb boxing skills. Roman could fight at all ranges, even on the inside, opposed to the more celebrated Ricardo Lopez.
Ernesto Marcel
A very underrated and true H2H force at 126 lbs. Excellent victories against Alexis Arguello, Antonio Gomez and Kuniaki Shibata(yes, I know the decision of the fight was called a draw, but it was a friggin' robbery) and was competitive with a green Roberto Duran when he himself was a bit inexperienced. His excellent upper body and lateral movement made him to a difficult target to hit and he was very capable at every range. He would beat everyone in the recent trio of Mexican featherweights (Barrera, Marquez and Morales), but don't get even half of their recognition.
Sadly there are simply loads of fighters that rarely, if ever, get mentioned in this section.Last edited by greeh; 12-01-2013, 03:53 PM.Comment
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Excellent knowledge thread.Comment
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@Greeh. Nice article and agreed about Bassa.
He had two massive fights with the very good Dave Boy McAuley in the old King's Hall in Belfast. McAuley had a spiteful dig for a wee man (would win a world title later as well) and defending your belts in front of a Northern Irish crowd in an venue like that most definitely wasn't for the faint-hearted.
Remember Bassa getting dropped and rocked loads of times in those classic fights but he kept coming back and had a nasty collection of punches himself. He seemed to be all arms and legs as well.Comment
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@Greeh. Yup agreed on that, but still a couple of excellent fights between those guys and at a classic venue. Nice to see a mention for McGowan as well who would have surely won a title in today's arena.Comment
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“No good, boxing. Why would anyone let himself get hit in the head?” says Matthew Saad Muhammad in this article, dated July 26, 2011.
In his prime, he was always one of my favorites to watch. But at the same time, you had this feeling – because of all the punishment he took while winning – that it wouldn’t end up good for him.
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