bennie wrote:
Hey "Flex" (for the new horribly flexible approach to professionalism at BN), Romania's Leonard Dorin failed to make the weight for a mandatory defence of his WBA lightweight against Panama's Miguel Callist in October 2003. "The Lion" Dorin - just a pound over - went through mental and physical torture to shift the pound but the entire Bucharest show was called off and there were nervous breakdowns all round; Dorin threatened to quit while Callist fainted at the news.
Dorin moved up to light-welterweight but was never the same.
Take a tip, this is the stuff you should be writing - same division, same agonies, same prospective damage...
By the way are you bringing out an archive edition for your centenary? Rumour has it the front page will look worse than this mag.
there has been so much of this recently, that anyone could be forgiven for not remembering the dorin fight.
lightweight is jinxed - Fewkes v Gethin... Guzman v Campbell, Campbell v Funeka... Castillo v Corrales 2, Corrales v Casamayor 3...
so many different scenarios, i.e. weak at weight and gets stopped, power advantage gives the edge, heavy guy slow, fight called off- and the ironies as well, with the victim first time doing it himself the next time
