Comments Thread For: Boxing Without Boxing: Ruben Olivares vs. Zensuke Utagawa: 07/09/74

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Mexico has had more than its share of great champions. Even now, thirty years and change after an errant attempt to return one last time in 1988, Ruben Olivares remains one of the nation's most esteemed and beloved boxers. Twice the bantamweight champion of the world, and twice a titlist at featherweight after that, Olivares was one of the game's best during the 1960s and 70s.
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[Mario040481]

Read the article hoping to find a link to a better version of the fight then I have posted on my channel (shameless self promotion) but alas, there was none. While it looks like no one cared much for this article, or at least enough to comment, if I do it correctly, this fight should be embedded below what I am writing here. It is a good, and entertaining enough fight. Commentary is in Spanish. I don't believe, or have not yet come across any other language for the commentary. I also have never yet come across a version with better audio than that which it came with, which is poor, and that is being generous, for sure. My suggestion to combat that would be to, if watching through an app or audio receiver that allows you turn the audio from stereo to mono, it will help tremendously as listening to the fight in stereo, the right channel pops and hisses in and out throughout the whole of the recording and it truly is annoying. Without further ado...

[crold1]

Read the article hoping to find a link to a better version of the fight then I have posted on my channel (shameless self promotion) but alas, there was none. While it looks like no one cared much for this article, or at least enough to comment, if I do it correctly, this fight should be embedded below what I am writing here. It is a good, and entertaining enough fight. Commentary is in Spanish. I don't believe, or have not yet come across any other language for the commentary. I also have never yet come across a version with better audio than that which it came with, which is poor, and that is being generous, for sure. My suggestion to combat that would be to, if watching through an app or audio receiver that allows you turn the audio from stereo to mono, it will help tremendously as listening to the fight in stereo, the right channel pops and hisses in and out throughout the whole of the recording and it truly is annoying. Without further ado...

Yeah, not a great two-way fight but a significant moment in a great career and one I enjoyed going back to review. Olivares was something else.

[Mario040481]

Yeah, not a great two-way fight but a significant moment in a great career and one I enjoyed going back to review. Olivares was something else.

I think it is impressive that he even had a measure of success going to featherweight, skipping super bantam (if it was there, I thought I read that it was but won't swear to it) taking into account that, although it isn't so noticeable in this specific fight, but in the later fight with David Kotey, Danny' Little Red' Lopez, Pedroza, etc, he was just not the right dimensions for featherweight, at least when going up against the real talents in the division. He sometimes looks like a midget. Big quevos that Olivares

[Thuglife Nelo]

Thanks for this Cliff. We need more articles like this. Surgical analytics. Gonna make some popcorn later and scout the best quality version online

[crold1]

Thanks for this Cliff. We need more articles like this. Surgical analytics. Gonna make some popcorn later and scout the best quality version online

My pleasure. Next fight: Spinks-EM Muhammad. Before then, a review of the Hands of Stone movie.

[Mario040481]

Thanks for this Cliff. We need more articles like this. Surgical analytics. Gonna make some popcorn later and scout the best quality version online

IF you find a better one, do share, please. I've been tracking own Olivares fights for the last yr ad a half, and it appears there are only about 19 online, and this includes searching in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian. Oddly enough, the Russian social media platform vk.com, was where I found the majority

[Mario040481]

My pleasure. Next fight: Spinks-EM Muhammad. Before then, a review of the Hands of Stone movie.

Have you watched Olivares vs Kanazawa II? Excellent back and forth fight.

[crold1]

Have you watched Olivares vs Kanazawa II? Excellent back and forth fight.

Maybe years ago. Thanks for the rec

[crisantonio917]

Great job Cliff