DOG COMMENTARY: This fight was between two truly great boxers who graced the welterweight division during the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) in Carlos Palomino vs Wilfred Benitez…..and it also was a history making fight….as Benitez became the youngest boxer in history to win a major world title….in what was a terrific fight…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: This fight for the WBC welterweight title between # 1 ranked Milton McCrory vs # 2 ranked Colin Jones was for the title vacated by Sugar Ray Leonard upon his retirement…..which turned out to be an awesome fight that went the distance….and ended up in a draw….for this was a fight well worth…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: Duane Thomas was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division….who turned pro in 1979 and won the vacant WBC light middleweight title with a 3rd round TKO over John Mugabi in 1986 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Thomas would lose the title eight months later, in Merignac, France, in his first defense to…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: This fight featured the # 1 rated WBA welterweight in the world, Roger Stafford verses the # 2 rated WBC welterweight in the world, Milt McCrory…..who would eventually win the WBC welterweight championship on August 13 1983….holding this title until December 6, 1985. McCrory trained under the legendary Emanuel Steward in the famous Detroit Kronk…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Dave “Davey” Hilton, Jr. is a Canadian former boxing world champion. He is a member of the Fighting Hilton Family and is the former brother-in-law of Arturo Gatti. He held the WBC super middleweight title briefly after defeating Dingaan Thobela in December 2000….but shortly thereafter, the WBC stripped it from him after child molestation…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: Mark Breland was a really good and almost great boxer with an outstanding career….who had he fought in any other era than during the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995)….Breland might be recognized today as a super great boxer….but instead he is being lost in boxing history as a result of there…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: This welterweight fight between Irish Johnny Turner and Wilfred Benitez is a fight worthy of watching….for this bout features one of the truly great fighters during the golden age of boxing from 1964 – 1995 in Benitez….and a really good club fighter in Irish Johnny. Wilfred Benítez is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Kirkland Laing is a retired British welterweight boxer nicknamed The Gifted One….who fought 56 times in a twenty-year career….the highlight of which was a shock split decision win over Roberto Durán in September 1982. The fight was selected as Ring Magazine’s upset of the year…..as Laing was a two-time winner of the British welterweight title….winning the…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: It is this lil ole Chiweenie Sportsphile’s opinion that no network has ever delivered boxing quite like HBO…..as the boxing commentator crew of Barry Tompkins, Sugar Ray Leonard and Larry Merchant were as good as it got during the golden age of boxing….yep, there was Gil Clancy and Tim Ryan at CBS…..Marv Albert…
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