Tommy Cordova vs Freddie Roach: Neither Tommy Cordova nor Freddie Roach could ever be mistaken for stylists, but through twelve breathless rounds, the fringe contenders gave a noisy Las Vegas audience their money’s worth. At times, the venturous pair threw hands simultaneously, resulting in a kind of collaborative death march with Cordova eventually awarded a split decision. Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs John Mugabi: Fresh off the crushing win over Hearns, Hagler squared off with “The Beast” John Mugabi. It didn’t disappoint. Periods of punishing toe-to-toe warfare interspersed with smooth boxing from Hagler, who for once met someone as mean and strong as he was. After enduring plenty of the Ugandan’s firepower, Hagler showed more wrinkles to his game and chopped the challenger down to size in eleven. “The Beast” and “Marvelous Marvin” gave fans a war. Minter received a bye in the opening round; he then won three fights before heartbreakingly losing in the semi-final. I watched the fight overnight at the Royal Festival Hall in London, a special experience in the pre-satellite/cable-TV days in the UK and an indication of the magnitude of the event. He made his debut on October 31, 1972 at the famous Royal Albert Hall, London, on the undercard of stablemate John H. Stracey against Bobby Arthur, who contested the vacant British welterweight title.

Hector Camacho vs Edwin Rosario : The fight that changed “Macho” Camacho’s career forever. Defending his lightweight title at Madison Square Garden, Camacho found himself taking serious punishment for the first time in his career as the heavy-handed Rosario landed big shots in rounds five and eleven to make it a close fight. Camacho got the decision but lost something else: his heart. We know you’ve barely started sampling all the great battles we listed yesterday in Part One of this list, but we promised, and so we deliver: here’s the other half of the eighty epic fights from the 1980’s, one of the greatest decades in the whole history of pugilism, with an all-star cast of greats: Duran, Chavez, Tyson, Hagler, Leonard, Hearns, plus a few lesser known gems. All of the links either take you directly to a video of the fight, or to a post that has the video embedded. Enjoy! I’m excited about fighting him because I think he’s the best middleweight probably since Sugar Ray Robinson,” Sibson rhapsodized about Marvin Hagler. “And I say that even though Carlos Monzon was my boyhood idol.”

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At 65 years old, Tony Sibson height not available right now. We will update Tony Sibson's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Word started to get around that Sibson had been curiously abstaining from sparring, at least since touching down in Massachusetts if not before. “I seldom spar too close to a fight anyway,” Tony said dismissively at the time. “How can I beat up my sparring partners and then go take showers with them?” These self-effacing remarks were consistent with Sibson’s laissez faire demeanor but raised eyebrows nevertheless, and the concern was warranted as Tony would admit after the fact. Livingstone Bramble vs Ray Mancini II : Mancini was the same perpetual motion machine, but as in their first fight, Bramble made his punches count, exploiting openings and inflicting cuts. In short, he had his man’s number; “Boom Boom’s” face was a mask of red as early as the fifth, and after a closely-fought contest, Bramble took a well-earned decision. In that fight, Sibson saved my life,” he said. “When he caught me, he split my nose. I was in bed that night after the fight and my face is aching and I went to the toilet and looked in the mirror and my nose was literally across my face so I was rushed to Brighton Hospital.

In Leonard's camp, the great trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed "a Hagler flaw" and revealed the thinking in his autobiography 'I Only Talk Winning': "He (Hagler) needed two steps to get off with his punches." Leonard read so much of what Hagler intended to throw. Some argue that Leonard created an illusion of control based on dancing, others that Hagler did not deserve reward for connecting only with thin air. After the British crown, Commonwealth and then European belts were to follow, along with losing a WBC and WBA world title shot to Hagler and later a WBC shot to Dennis Andries. If the shoe was on the other foot, I’d have gave him a rematch because it shows the mark of a champion.” Daniel Zaragoza vs Seung Hoon Lee: Zaragoza traveled to South Korea to defend his super bantamweight title against the local hero and while the split draw was a bit of homestyle cooking, what really matters is that both fighters left it all in the ring in a non-stop, high intensity firefight.

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Since retiring from boxing, Sibson has led a low-key life working within the building trade living in Leicester. In his 1980 autobiography, Minter stated: “I will be haunted forever by the memory of that terrible experience.” Marvin Hagler retrospectively put Sibson in the same company as John ‘The Beast’ Mugabi as the strongest opponent he ever faced. “I remember seeing Tony Sibson at the weigh-in. This guy was strong,” recounted Hagler. “I remember he hit me on the chest, he looked much stronger and bigger than me, and he’s supposed to be a middleweight.”

Thomas Hearns vs Juan Roldan: Juan Roldan had already proven his mettle vs Hagler, and he brought the heat to “The Motor City Cobra” when they met in 1987. But despite landing some big shots and having Hearns seriously hurt in the opener, the free-swinging brawler was felled multiple times before being taken out in round four. The victory made Hearns the first in boxing history to win four divisional world titles. Hearns (right) battles Roldan for a truly historic title belt. Duran: I would say Roberto Duran was very experienced, plus he was a three-time world champion when I fought him. I gave him the opportunity to win a fourth, which didn’t happen (laughs). Hagler: “His timing was first class, when he threw a punch he got you. He wouldn’t throw and miss and he wouldn’t be out of distance. He was very heavy-handed.” He looked so well the last time I saw him. He looked like chiselled marble and I remember thinking: ‘I bet he could still do 15 rounds flat out in a heartbeat.’ It’s hard to believe he’s gone. I loved Marvin as a fighter and a man. I loved (former European middleweight champion) Gratien Tonna and Carlos Monzon was long, lanky and could really fight, but Marvin was up there with the best of them, an absolute legend. It’s probably safe to assume that Worcester, Massachusetts was not on Sibson’s list of places he dreamed of going as an apple-cheeked youngster in Leicester, England or, for that matter, as a respected middleweight contender who had fought on foreign soil just once to that point. Especially seeing as how one of New England’s typically severe mid-winter blizzards greeted his arrival in America unceremoniously. Neither the locale nor the weather seemed to dampen Sibson’s enthusiasm.Minter is well placed, having reigned between two of the greatest middleweights of all time, to give an opinion on what would have happened had Monzon met Hagler. Opponent Bobby Coolidge once quipped that Sibson resembled “a keg with limbs”—yet he held a boy-next-door appeal, with his shaggy bowl haircut and working-class lilt. Along with his aggressive style and gentle humanity, it proved popular. He attracted a boisterous following, known as “Sibbo’s Army,” that ensured he was in constant demand. Training each night after working construction by day, Sibson developed into a physical specimen—a bobbing, rolling bull terrier, with a left hand that could make cash registers sing. Sibbo’s first victory took place on his 18th birthday and, after winning his next 12 convincingly, the last of which was a 59-second blitz of Merthyr’s Gareth “Tashy” Jones, he was ready to make his hometown debut on a Dave Roden show at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester. I have to start giving myself credit, ‘cos I beat a helluva fighter here today,” Hagler said to Larry Merchant. “I think Monzon was the last great middleweight champion and when I’m done with this game, I would like to go down in history in the same way.”