What could have been......

ringsider · Post by **ringsider** » 29 Jun 2005, 02:45

One of my favorite fighters of old, (well not really old) was a boxer/puncher who was long and lean with a stiff left jab.........a great fighter to watch. Sadly he was killed in a car wreck, just after TKOing Azumah Nelson. Can you name him? He would have been champ for a long time.....

tiredoldngrey · Post by **tiredoldngrey** » 29 Jun 2005, 04:29

Salvador Sanchez. Danny Little Red Lopez was maybe my allm time favorite and I hated Sanchez so much I felt guilty when he died.

Ezzard · Post by **Ezzard** » 29 Jun 2005, 05:15

Sanchez was a great fighter. Even in his short career he beat Lopez, Gomez, Ford, Castillo and Nelson. I'd have to say that he was the best featherweight of the last 30 years. I'd have loved to see him up against Pedroza. Possibly could have moved up and taken on Chavez too.

He seemed tor aise his game for the big ones. An absolute tragedy.

tiredoldngrey · Post by **tiredoldngrey** » 29 Jun 2005, 05:35

I missed out on his career- Lopez was my favorite; my mother and I would go see him fight- because after he beat Lopez twice I couldn't make myself watch him fight .

barry · Post by **barry** » 29 Jun 2005, 07:00

Danny Lopez is a fighter that I don't see how any one could not like. He is certainly one of my all-time favorites. One of the first things that I ever read about Lopez, before watching any of his fights, was his 1974 bout against Masano Toyoshima, which was his first fight after his first loss to Chacon. Any way, I read the report from Boxing Illustrated and the article was so exciting that when I was finished reading it, I noticed that I was on my feet and my heart was beating several paces faster...and remember...that was before I had even seen him fight! I would love to get a copy of that fight if there is one. Classic Lopez going down and being very hurt early only to come back and bomb out the Japanese slugger in an absolute brawl!

ringsider · Post by **ringsider** » 29 Jun 2005, 14:04

Yeh Salvador really gave it to "Little Red", but they were good fights. Danny was tough, but didn't have the hand/foot skills of Salvador. I used to like how Lopez would wear the indian chief feather head dress when he entered the ring......

He was a good guy, but not a fighter of Sanchez's skill level.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 29 Jun 2005, 14:07

ringsider wrote:I used to like how Lopez would wear the indian chief feather head dress when he entered the ring

dan1030 · Post by **dan1030** » 29 Jun 2005, 16:15

Sanchez was one of my favorites when I was a teenager. I was just floored when I heard of his death. Even aafter seeing him twice KO Lopez I was amazed by the way he stopped Wilfredo Gomez.

I think Sanchez-Gomez and Pryor-Arguello I where a couple of the real standout champ vs. champ fights of the early 80s.

ShoeShine · Post by **ShoeShine** » 29 Jun 2005, 16:45

Sanchez was my favorite fighter when I was coming up..I also liked Juan Laporte a lot back then ...but the favorite thing about the Sanchez- Lopez bouts were that they came on regular tv.....those were the days, a lot of good fighters back then...boza edwards was another one of my favorites.

Manos de Oro · Post by **Manos de Oro** » 29 Jun 2005, 18:19

Great to see Little Red Lopez getting his dues! The story of this guy's career from 71-79 would make an awesome feel-good TV movie. And what a conclusion to have before the credits rolled - tieing it up with the Ayala fight.

I'm tempted to say he was showing signs of being dulled - common in a tail-end fighter - in the fights with Sanchez, but it's the same well placed right hand and technical trumping that catches him out both times.

I think it's safe to guess that the same scenario may have played out at any point in Danny's career.

That aside, if anyone has the luck to collect an autograph from Danny, or even encounter him or Bonnie by chance, can you please put forward the idea of them putting out a picture book with some of the pictures she used to take at ringiside/in training/travelling during the 70's heyday. I think I'm right in thinking that they work in 'normal' jobs nowadays. A little book to immortalize some of the pictures they have lying around would serve a number of purposes. And surely a small west coast publishing house might be interested in such a thing..?

Dunno, just a thought.

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