One of the best fighters that I have ever seen on TV fight, the great Eusebio Pedroza is 61 years old. And he still look trim and ready for another fight.
Happy birthday champ. May you have a great day.
Happy Birthday Eusebio Pedroza!
Re: Happy Birthday Eusebio Pedroza!
Happy Birthday, Eusebio! Right after mine, too. Shame he never got the chance to fight Sanchez, or right the whole Taylor fiasco, but a great champion who's very underrated.
Re: Happy Birthday Eusebio Pedroza!
Glad he's ok, he was an excellent fighter though the only 2 I saw were v McGuigan and Zamora.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
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Re: Happy Birthday Eusebio Pedroza!
You should see more of his fights. The Alfonso Zamora fight was when he was TOO GREEN AND FRAIL for the bantamweight title try.palooka wrote:Glad he's ok, he was an excellent fighter though the only 2 I saw were v McGuigan and Zamora.
Happy birthday.
The Barry McGuigan fight was after his COMPLETE PRIME. He was ready to be taken. Nothing to take away McGuigan's win, but he did not beat a PRIME Pedroza.
Re: Happy Birthday Eusebio Pedroza!
not the most attractive of champions to watch, but one of the most stubborn, sneaky, persistent fighters out there - he'd do anything to get the win, trading hard shots, fowling, holding, and getting his running shoes on.
was run close a couple of times but in my DVD footage of the lockridge fights I have no problem with the scoring. beat some good fighters over a very long time - and went out with a bang in that great fight with mcguigan.
fighters like pedroza paved the way for Hopkins, who also used a weird right hand lead without a lot of conviction that he'd use as a prelude to clinching and mugging the opponent. Hopkins, who made a similar # of title defences at his own weight, in his own era, was able to squeeze more out of his career by taking opponents from his old weight into a new weight.
neither are really my cup of tea because I see boxing a sport requiring a high level of OFFENSIVE skill. but pedroza really knew how to look after himself, in there. one of those great champs who just wouldn't go away and one of panama's best ever (& perhaps that country's most consistent champ).
was run close a couple of times but in my DVD footage of the lockridge fights I have no problem with the scoring. beat some good fighters over a very long time - and went out with a bang in that great fight with mcguigan.
fighters like pedroza paved the way for Hopkins, who also used a weird right hand lead without a lot of conviction that he'd use as a prelude to clinching and mugging the opponent. Hopkins, who made a similar # of title defences at his own weight, in his own era, was able to squeeze more out of his career by taking opponents from his old weight into a new weight.
neither are really my cup of tea because I see boxing a sport requiring a high level of OFFENSIVE skill. but pedroza really knew how to look after himself, in there. one of those great champs who just wouldn't go away and one of panama's best ever (& perhaps that country's most consistent champ).