DOG ASIDE: Livingstone Bramble was a professional boxer raised on Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands….who became the first world champion from Saint Kitts and Nevis. Bramble began boxing professionally on October 16, 1980 by knocking out Jesus Serrano in round one….whom he would outpoint Serrano in a rematch. In his fourth fight, Bramble faced the more experienced, fringe…
DOG COMMENTARY: This world lightweight title fight features two really outstanding fighters…..as Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini comes into this fight with a 20 – 0 record with 15 KO’s….who is getting his first chance at fighting for the title that his father, Lenny Mancini, had taken away from him by entering World War II in…
DOG COMMENTARY: Any time you get two former world champions together in the ring….you typically get an action fight….especially in the lightweight divisions…..and both Hector Camacho and Cornelius Boza Edwards were known as punchers….but this fight was more of a technical fight by both fighters that went the distance….not overly exciting but still a good…
DOG ASIDE: Howard Edward Davis, Jr. was an American amateur and professional boxer….who grew up on Long Island as the eldest of 10 children….learning boxing from his father. After being inspired by a movie about Muhammad Ali….Davis embarked on his amateur career. He won the 1976 Olympic gold medal one week after his mother died…..being awarded…
DOG COMMENTARY: Hector Camacho was a by-product of the streets of New York City….with a toughness that edges on meanness….an simple attitude that if you hit me, I hit you back harder and more often with all I got….plus he like he has a magic combination of talent, energy and nerve….with the kind of smile…
DOG ASIDE: Jim Watt is a Scottish former boxer and commentator….who became world champion in the lightweight division when Roberto Durán left the title vacant in 1979….as the WBC had him fight Alfredo Pitalua for the vacant title…..knocking out Pitalua in twelve rounds. Watt beat such notables as future world champion Sean O’Grady, former world champion, Perico Fernandez,…
DOG COMMENTARY: This NABF lightweight championship fight between Hector Macho Camacho and Roque Montoya was a really good fight…..plus I just love to watch that lil Puerta Rican “Macho” Camacho in the ring….and having Latin blood in me….I always like looking at Hector….cuz he could’ve left his shoes under my bed at night…..but in truth,…
DOG ASIDE: Héctor Luís Camacho Matías was known as Macho Camacho….who was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and singer. Known for his quickness in the ring and flamboyant style….he held major championships in the WBC super featherweight (1983)….the WBC lightweight (1985)….and WBO junior welterweight (1989 and 1991) divisions. After earning minor titles in four additional weight classes….Camacho became the first boxer to…
DOG COMMENTARY: This was a really good that this lil ole Sportsphile thinks that Cubanito Perez could have easily gotten the decision over Macho Camacho…..but Camacho was so cute with his spit-curl and glittery trunks….plus he was really quick on his feet and fast with his hands……and really marketable at the time. Heck, you even…