DOG COMMENTARY: A common thread of gold that ran through the very heart of the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) was the number of times that boxing legends fought each other….and this one was as big as it got….WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard vs WBA welterweight champion Thomas “Hitman” Hearns….as this war…
DOG COMMENTARY: This ABC In-Studio Review of the 2nd world welterweight title fight known as No Mas between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran featured both fighters being interview by Howard Cosell….for this video gives the viewer a very distinct inside view of the mental framework of each of these two boxing legends from the golden…
DOG COMMENTARY: Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán II is also known as the No Más Fight….is one of the most famous fights in boxing history. It took place on November 25, 1980 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans,United States…as the second of three bouts between this pair of boxing legends who dominated the ring during the…
DOG COMMENTARY: Sugar Ray Leonard entered this fight with Tony Chiaverini at 23 – 0 in his professional welterweight boxing career…..as he was moving up the ladder towards a title fight….as Sugar Ray finally silenced the critics who questioned the former Olympic champion’s punching power….for the 23 year old highly publicized boxer from Palmer Park, MD scored…
DOG COMMENTARY: On November 30, 1979 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV…..two incredible boxers of the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) met in the ring to fight for the WBC, Ring and Lineal welterweight titles….as then Champ Wilfred Benitez, a super great boxer of the era, faced off against Sugar Ray Leonard….in…
DOG COMMENTARY: The two gold standards for epic grudge fights during the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) were the three times that Muhammad Ali vs Smokin Joe Frazier met in the ring…..and the three times that Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto “Manos de Piedra” Duran met in the ring….as each of these four…
DOG COMMENTARY: Pete Ranzany was a former American boxer….who while fighting as an amateur, represented the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1973….where he defeated future welterweight champion Carlos Palomino at the 1972 Olympic Trials….but lost to eventual gold medalist Sugar Ray Seales in the finals. Ranzany was a conventional boxer with a solid jab and vicious left hook….which he…
DOG COMMENTARY: In November 1979, Sugar Ray Leonard defeated a super great boxer of the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) in Wilfred Benitez to win his first title….which he held until he lost his first fight in June 1980 with Roberto Duran….another boxing legend during the golden age….a title which he regained in…
DOG COMMENTARY: Dave “Boy” Green is a former British welterweight boxing champion and businessman….boxing under the moniker as the “Fen Tiger”. In his youth at Cromwell School he was into soccer and cross-country….but took up boxing in 1967 after joining the Chatteris Amateur Boxing Club….with his trainer Arthur Binder being the one who had taught Eric Boon,…