Round 1982, I sat in an outside restaurant within the Catskills with legendary boxing movie collector Jim Jacobs. He mentioned, “Of all of the fights I’ve seen, the worst resolution was when (WBA & WBC) mild heavyweight champion Harold Johnson (69-8) misplaced his title to Willie Pastrano (57-11-8) in Vegas.”
It was in June of 1963 on the Conference Middle in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Johnson dropping the title by cut up resolution, scoring 69-68, 69-67 and 67-68.
Pastrano would go 4-2 with two title defenses earlier than his career-ending battle with 1956 Olympic Silver Medalist Jose “Chegui” Torres, skilled by legendary Cus D’Amato. D’Amato, on my go to to Catskill, would inform me, “The folks dealing with Pastrano would solely give Torres a shot on the title if I weren’t within the nook.
I had my assistant work the nook with me by telling him the numbers for Torres (he skilled with numbers painted on a heavy bag, similar to 1 for the jab, 2 for the left hook, and so forth.)
Torres had Pastrano down within the sixth, and the referee, Johnny LoBianco, stopped the battle between the ninth and tenth rounds, declaring Torres as the brand new champion.
In November of 1976, this author witnessed the worst resolution he ever noticed, sitting amongst a Pennsylvania indoor file crowd of 16,019 on the Spectrum when Puerto Rico’s WBC World Tremendous Featherweight champion Alfredo “Petro” Escalera, 36-7-2, in his seventh protection received a cut up resolution of Philadelphia’s Tyrone Everett, 34-0, with the Mexican choose ruling for Everett, the Puerto Rican choose for Escalera and Philadelphia choose Lou Tress in his 331st bout ruling for Escalera by no means to guage a battle once more.
I had it 13-2 in rounds for Everett. The next yr, Everett would win bouts in opposition to two opponents with dropping data and be shot to dying ten days later. In January 1978, Escalera would lose his title, being stopped by Alexis Arguello in 13 rounds.
A number of the most controversial selections I heard of or witnessed had been in June of 1973 when Ernie Terrell misplaced to Chuck Wepner for the Nationwide Americas vacant title 7-5 in rounds by the referee Harold Valan in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey.
In April 1960, NBA center champion Gene Fullmer retained his title in a cut up draw in opposition to Joey Giardello. The primary dwell battle I attended I felt Dick Turner defeated fellow Philly opponent Stanley “Kitten” Hayward dropping by cut up resolution on the Philadelphia Enviornment. Turner would by no means battle once more.
I didn’t at all times agree with most followers when “Sugar” Ray Leonard defeated Center champion “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler in April 1987 in Las Vegas, ending Hagler’s profession, although most followers felt he received.
Two fights later, WBC World Tremendous Center champion Leonard fought to a cut up resolution draw with WBO World Tremendous Center champion Tommy “Hit Man” Hearns in June of 1989 in Las Vegas, with the WBC Tremendous Center champion Leonard hitting the canvas twice. Most followers felt Hearns received, though I wasn’t considered one of them.
In 1982 in my go to to Catskills I sat within the bed room of an beginner named 16 year-old Mike Tyson watching my second all-time favourite on movie Child Gavilan dropping in April of 1954 by majority resolution to middleweight champion Carl “Bobo” Olson in Chicago.
In world welterweight champion Gavilan’s subsequent battle the choice was worse when he misplaced to mob linked Johnny Saxton at Philadelphia’s Conference Corridor in October of 1954.
Based on Nat Fleischer within the Ring, in January 1955, referee Pete Pantaleo confirmed favoritism, steadily warning Gavilan in opposition to holding, whereas Saxton was primarily accountable.
Some followers felt world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali misplaced all three fights to Ken Norton, although solely dropping the primary one. In June of 1963, Cassius Clay was dropped by the UK’s Henry Cooper within the fourth spherical. In between rounds his coach Angelo Dundee lower the glove of Clay to offer him time to re-coup.
Cooper was stopped the next rounds, being identified to be a “bleeder” on cuts.
This author seems ahead to the various controversial selections the well-known followers make.
