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 The biggest fight of Aaron’s career took place on November 12, 1982 against Alexis Arguello at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The bout was on HBO, and at the time, we didn’t even have cable TV in our house. I had to hear about it in on late night sports reports on news radio from […]

Aaron’s first bout of 1981 was on June 27 at the Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas. I remember staying at that hotel in 1985 after I drove from Los Angeles on vacation. It was the first major hotel on the strip, and I was glad I had a chance to experience ‘old school’ Vegas. Pryor

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

Here is my list of my top 10 favorites fight I watched on free TV.

    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.

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

 John’s first bout of 1985 was on March 17, 1985 against Earl Hargrove in Tampa, Florida. ‘The Beast’ easily disposed of his opponent in the opening round in his last bout for a while at super-welterweight. He wouldn’t climb through the ropes again until August 6 in Atlantic City, where he knocked out Bill Bradley

 John Mugabi was born on March 4, 1960 in Uganda. He was a talented amateur boxer who won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. John won his first bout at a pro on December 5, 1980 with a first round knockout of Oemer Karadenis in Cologne. Not long after, he moved to London,

After losing his WBC super-welterweight belt to Thomas Hearns on December 3, 1982, Wilfred took six months off before returning to the ring on May 18, 1983 at the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Now campaigning as a middleweight, Wilfred won a 10 round unanimous decision over Tony Cerda. Two months later at

Wilfred Benitez and Roberto Duran met in the ring on January 30, 1982 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. I was working weekends at my airline job at the time, and didn’t have HBO, so I wouldn’t have seen it anyway. Years later I bought a VHS copy of the bout from a guy who