Aaron Pryor Part 4

After the tremendous win over Arguello in November of 1982, talks of a rematch immediately were in the works. However it’s rare that rematches take place immediately, and it was the same in this case. Pryor took a bout on April 2, 1983 at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, and stopped Sang Hyun

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Aaron Pryor Part 1

Aaron Pryor was born on October 20, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had a tremendous amateur career record of 204 wins and 16 losses, and was a two time NAAU Lightweight Champion, both in 1973 and 1975. In the 1976 Olympic Trials, Aaron lost to Howard Davis Jr., but participated in the Games as an

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John Mugabi Part 4

    John’s first bout of the new decade was on January 10 ,1990 in Kensington, England. ‘The Beast’ knocked out a guy named Carlos Antunes in one round, and weighed in at 163 lbs. Two months later he traveled back to his hometown of Tampa to make the first defense of his 154 lb.

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John Mugabi Part 3

After his huge defeat to Marvin Hagler on March 10, 1986, John Mugabi was out of the ring until December. He traveled back to Las Vegas to take on Duane Thomas for the vacant WBC Super-Welterweight title at the Caesar’s Palace Sports Pavilion on December 5. I didn’t see the bout live, since we didn’t

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