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I've been rewatching some of Salvador Sanchez's title defenses and I started with his first fight with Danny Lopez, where he won his title, and just as the many times when Ive watched that specific fight before, I am awed by the performance of Sanchez and the very legitimate beating Lopez was given that night. He never had a chance to get anything going really. Maybe he underestimated Sanchez, or maybe he'd gone over the hill, but either way, he was dominated thoroughly.
When I was watching the fight a question came to mind, that being what other championship fights played out similarly to Lopez vs Sanchez 1? Midway through the fight Angelo Dundee, commentating with Tim Ryan, mentions "..when this fight was announced, many boxing people said 'Salvador who?'..." That's the kind of thing Im talking about. Also, I wonder if fights such as the one Im writing about, which were likely rare occurrences at the time they took place, will become increasingly rare due to the internet, where boxing fans can look up a fighter they're unaware of and likely watch some of this fighters previous fights, an example being Fury vs Schwarz, and the upcoming Fury fight with the Swede. In 1981 though, most boxing info not mentioned during a fight itself, not seen during the sports segment of the nightly news, or not read in the sports page was harder to come by, and i imagine you'd have to purchase The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, etc, etc, to learn anything deeper than what you'd possibly get from the three other media types I mentioned above.
When I was watching the fight a question came to mind, that being what other championship fights played out similarly to Lopez vs Sanchez 1? Midway through the fight Angelo Dundee, commentating with Tim Ryan, mentions "..when this fight was announced, many boxing people said 'Salvador who?'..." That's the kind of thing Im talking about. Also, I wonder if fights such as the one Im writing about, which were likely rare occurrences at the time they took place, will become increasingly rare due to the internet, where boxing fans can look up a fighter they're unaware of and likely watch some of this fighters previous fights, an example being Fury vs Schwarz, and the upcoming Fury fight with the Swede. In 1981 though, most boxing info not mentioned during a fight itself, not seen during the sports segment of the nightly news, or not read in the sports page was harder to come by, and i imagine you'd have to purchase The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, etc, etc, to learn anything deeper than what you'd possibly get from the three other media types I mentioned above.
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