DOG COMMENTARY: This junior welterweight title fight between Hector “Macho” Camacho vs Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini took place on March 6, 1989 for the WBO world junior welterweight title…..as Camacho became the 1st ever title holder in this new WBO division…..after winning a very close split-decision fight in Las Vegas. This fight featured one of…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: This HBO special of “Boxing’s Best covering the exploits of “The Manassa Mauler” Jack Dempsey’s career….from the historic second fight between heavyweight champ Gene Tunney at Soldiers Field in Chicago before 194,934 fans is just awesome footage….followed by additional highlights of Dempsey’s career….including his last professional bout where he knocks Cowboy Luttrell completely out of…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: I have to give credit where credit is due…..and regarding the HBO boxing series “Boxing’s Best – Grudge Fights”….this series may be at the top of the heap in my book as the best boxing special series ever produced….as HBO’s Barry Tompkins takes the viewers on a magical mystery tour down memory lane…..showing…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: HBO Boxing presented some really outstanding specials on some of the storied fights throughout the history of boxing…..involving fighters who just did not like each other…..who when matched together in a championship bout…..would just bring out the best and toughest sides of so many of these boxers…..as the specials were presented under the…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: After Marvelous Marvin Hagler finally got a shot at the undisputed world middleweight boxing championship in November 1979 against then champ Vito Antuofermo…whom he fought to a 15 round draw…..even though many boxing pundits at the time said that Hagler won the fight…..but the Marvelous one was fortunate that a second title shot…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: This video is the finish to the 1st world middleweight title fight between champion Vito Antuofermo vs Marvin Hagler…..as it picks up where the first video posted for this particular title fight left off at the end of the 10th round…..and carries the viewer through the 11th to end of the 15th round…..followed…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: Barry Tompkins and Sugar Ray Leonard of HBO Boxing host this awesome in-studio review with Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns of the historic battle in the ring on April 15, 1985….when one “legendary boxer” Marvelous Marvin Hagler (60 – 2 – 2, 50 KO’s) and one “super great boxer” Thomas “Hitman” Hearns (40…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: This boxing special is a piece done by CBS Sports under the title of John Madden’s Journey…..as the former NFL coach hosts a program designed to highlight really special athletes in conjunction with the sport and the abilities and talents of high profile athletes in that particular sport …..and this John Madden’s Journey…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: Marvelous Marvin Hagler had to wait until his 50th professional fight before he could get a shot at the world middleweight championship…..cuz all the other middleweights were afraid to fight him…..so, he was avoided like the plague….that is until he entered the ring in November of 1979 against champ Vito Antuofermo….which was some…
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