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Hagler said:
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ya, no one talks much about ortiz, sort of forgotten about, they came close to putting together a fight with him and duran, duran would have been too young probably at the time.
 
mozfonky said:
ya, no one talks much about ortiz, sort of forgotten about, they came close to putting together a fight with him and duran, duran would have been too young probably at the time.
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Peak LW Duran against peak LW Ortiz would have been quite something to behold.

Ortiz fought tons of bad motherfuckers. The most stacked resume among forgotten fighters.
 
Hagler said:
Peak LW Duran against peak LW Ortiz would have been quite something to behold.

Ortiz fought tons of bad motherfuckers. The most stacked resume among forgotten fighters.
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probably just the era he fought in, by the time of duran, i think ortiz was done and was quitting in his fights. I never got to watch a whole lot of his stuff but the docu i saw the latin legends was great and had good footage of him.
 
mozfonky said:
probably just the era he fought in, by the time of duran, i think ortiz was done and was quitting in his fights. I never got to watch a whole lot of his stuff but the docu i saw the latin legends was great and had good footage of him.
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He quit against Buchanan in his last fight. Can't really call him a chicken considering the murderer's row he went through, IMO.
 
defjaam said:
Moore had more than 17 years of boxing... I think him and Roberto Duran are the only two boxers that competed in 5 decades... Roy Jones Jr will probably get there, as he had his debut in 1989.
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*correction - I mistook Moore for Jack Johnson. Him and Duran competed in 5 different decades.
 
Hagler said:
He quit against Buchanan in his last fight. Can't really call him a chicken considering the murderer's row he went through, IMO.
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i wouldn't call anyone a quitter, i'm just saying he probably wasn't up to a young duran at that time.
 
also, in the docu, he claimed len matthews gave him his toughest fight.
 
mozfonky said:
i wouldn't call anyone a quitter, i'm just saying he probably wasn't up to a young duran at that time.
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Absolutely. I wish they could have fought at their peak, but fighting young Duran if you can't last against Buchanan is probably a bad decision.
 
I think this is a tough one..
My real last name sounds like an extra from the Godfather, but I didn't use it in the ring. My dad was Sicilian and I was 1 of 9 kids. I grew out of the NY area and was the NY GG champion.

My manager is best known for managing one of Larry Holmes’ victims. I was a WBC champ for less than a year. My biggest win was my last fight, a split decision against a Puerto Rican great. In both my losses I was stopped, one time by a HoF legend who was one of the best fighters ever. We both threw rights and his landed flush. I got up but Mills Land had to pull him off me.
 
Absolut said:
I think this is a tough one..
My real last name sounds like an extra from the Godfather, but I didn't use it in the ring. My dad was Sicilian and I was 1 of 9 kids. I grew out of the NY area and was the NY GG champion.

My manager is best known for managing one of Larry Holmes’ victims. I was a WBC champ for less than a year. My biggest win was my last fight, a split decision against a Puerto Rican great. In both my losses I was stopped, one time by a HoF legend who was one of the best fighters ever. We both threw rights and his landed flush. I got up but Mills Land had to pull him off me.
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Billy Costello
 
defjaam said:
Billy Costello
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damn right, I thought that won would linger for a bit. nicely done.

Anyone looking for good boxing read, the Hauser book Black Lights about Costello is great.
 
I spent my first 18 fights mostly fighting nobodies. After that, I lost a very close and contentious fight to the champ. I rematched him a little later and blew him out in three. From there on out I had one of the most dominant runs in my divisions history, beating many a good fighters. Eventually, my boredom and lack of discipline (I was a famous party boy) caused me to retire. However, financial issues quickly forced me out of retirement. Following my return from retirement, i fought three times for a world title, coming very close each time. In my last fight, I came closest, but age and wars had caught up to me and I was stopped within seconds of beating the champ. In tears, I finally retired and called it a career.
 
Duran would have beaten him, but it would have been a fight for the decades.
 
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