RIP Juan Roldan

[AntonioMartin]

Sad news from Argentina...80s Middleweight contender Juan "The Hammer" Roldan has passed away from COvID-19.

He was exciting and a great fighter. In another era he'd been a world champion.

Sorry the only link I found is in Spanish::
https://www.primerahora.com/deportes/bo ... lo-roldan/

[Caractacus]

Juan Roldan came into my mind several days ago.

[Cholo_cws]

Very sad news. RIP 'El Martillo.'
He was unlucky to get his title shots against such quality opponents as Hagler, Hearns and Nunn.
He was one of the fighters I'd root for in the 80s even if it was mostly merely reading about his fights in Eric Armit's pages in Boxing News.

[elmersalsa]

R.I.P, Martillo! You was very exciting to watch.

[Fray Bentos]

DEP - watched his fight with Hearns where he went down for the second time at the end of the first round, he banged his fist on the canvas in frustration and then he came back to tag him in the fourth before being took out - a fighter and a half who started boxing after wrestling a bear in a fairground show.

[Fray Bentos]

Very sad news. RIP 'El Martillo.'
He was unlucky to get his title shots against such quality opponents as Hagler, Hearns and Nunn.
He was one of the fighters I'd root for in the 80s even if it was mostly merely reading about his fights in Eric Armit's pages in Boxing News.

Same here!

[bollocks]

RIP Juan Roldan

[bennie]

Roldan was a monster. He made Hagler look human.

[Flump]

RIP Juan Domingo Roldan

I loved watching this guy, total brawler. He brutalised Frank Fletcher and James Kinchen.

I remember staying up until the wee hours for his shootout with Hearns on ITV. If the stars had time aligned I would have loved to have seen him and Tony Sibson and Nigel Benn lock horns.

[scorpio83]

RIP Juan "The Hammer" Roldan

The only man who officially scored a knockdown against "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler despite the fact that most ringsiders saw Hagler slipped and Hagler made him pay for it with a 10th round TKO win over Roldan.

Roldan was one of the great uncrowned Argentine fighters who fought Hagler, Hearns and Nunn each for their middleweight title fight, but came up short.

[Bodyshot3]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

[AntonioMartin]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

Also they are humans, and sadly, sometimes because of political turmoil, we stop seeing our fellow humans as so. It happens in the US every four years when Demorats hate Republican'ts and Republican'ts hate Demorats.

The normal British person had nothing to do with the Falklands and neither did the normal Argentine...in fact Argentines were actually under a dictatorship at that time and a lot of them abhor the entire thing going on back then, from my talks with some Argentine friends...

And of course, the fact the 1986 World Cup game came so close to that conflict did not help either. But all in all, we are all humans. RIP Hammer!

[Fray Bentos]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

Also they are humans, and sadly, sometimes because of political turmoil, we stop seeing our fellow humans as so. It happens in the US every four years when Demorats hate Republican'ts and Republican'ts hate Demorats.

The normal British person had nothing to do with the Falklands and neither did the normal Argentine...in fact Argentines were actually under a dictatorship at that time and a lot of them abhor the entire thing going on back then, from my talks with some Argentine friends...

And of course, the fact the 1986 World Cup game came so close to that conflict did not help either. But all in all, we are all humans. RIP Hammer!

Exactly.

Argentina is a great country that has great kinship with the UK, they played a great part in both world wars in keeping British people fed with their grain and meat.

In 2002 - everywhere I went in Buenos Aires - there were big massive posters of none other than.... David Beckham!

[Fray Bentos]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

If you ever go to Argentina Bodyshot, mention you are British and people will be very happy to hear it...

'Ah.. I love The Beatles/Rolling Stones/Depeche Mode (I don't know why - South Americans love Depeche Mode) Manchesterrrr Unitedddd/Big Ben etc... I don't know why you would hold any animosity against a people and a country who were living under a military dictatorship that was throwing its people into the sea... I thought you were big on freeing oppressed people living under totalitarianism... you should be happy for them that is not the case anymore.

And you won the war, remember.

[AntonioMartin]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

If you ever go to Argentina Bodyshot, mention you are British and people will be very happy to hear it...

'Ah.. I love The Beatles/Rolling Stones/Depeche Mode (I don't know why - South Americans love Depeche Mode) Manchesterrrr Unitedddd/Big Ben etc... I don't know why you would hold any animosity against a people and a country who were living under a military dictatorship that was throwing its people into the sea... I thought you were big on freeing oppressed people living under totalitarianism... you should be happy for them that is not the case anymore.

And you won the war, remember.

Bueno..he is calling them warriors...

Hey doesnt Duran Duran get any love por alla??

[Fray Bentos]

Sad news......and most especially the Covid element
As a Brit I should not perhaps like my Argentine fighters or rugby players; but I just do because they are warriors

If you ever go to Argentina Bodyshot, mention you are British and people will be very happy to hear it...

'Ah.. I love The Beatles/Rolling Stones/Depeche Mode (I don't know why - South Americans love Depeche Mode) Manchesterrrr Unitedddd/Big Ben etc... I don't know why you would hold any animosity against a people and a country who were living under a military dictatorship that was throwing its people into the sea... I thought you were big on freeing oppressed people living under totalitarianism... you should be happy for them that is not the case anymore.

And you won the war, remember.

Bueno..he is calling them warriors...

Hey doesnt Duran Duran get any love por alla??

The boxers and the rugby players...

I am British, we have to have these conversations with each other sometimes, god forbid people - especially foreigners - hold our past against us!

Duran Duran gets love too!

[Caractacus]

I would have liked to have seen
Juan Domingo Roldan fight

Mustapha Hamsho
John "The Beast" Mugabi
or Robero Duran (1988)
there would have been some fireworks in those fights I think.

[Fray Bentos]

Tony Sibson vs Juan Roldan would have been the middleweight match-up of the 1980's - such an attractive style encounter. It would have be a guaranteed war!

[Flump]

Tony Sibson vs Juan Roldan would have been the middleweight match-up of the 1980's - such an attractive style encounter. It would have be a guaranteed war!

Shame it never happened. Las Vegas, not Wembley in the 80's, soft ref like Carlos Padilla, fireworks guaranteed.

I'd suspect Sibson would try and box, as he could, but at some stage it's going into trench warfare. Very hard to pick, you can easily make a case for both to win.

Roldan always like a good smile during the preliminaries, which made him even more intimidating.

[AntonioMartin]

I would have liked to have seen
Juan Domingo Roldan fight

Mustapha Hamsho
John "The Beast" Mugabi
or Robero Duran (1988)
there would have been some fireworks in those fights I think.

Or versus Iran Barkley!

[Bodyshot3]

Feckin' hell chaps please don't be so quick and vitriolic to judge or jump on the pulpit.

.....what I said was that I really loved my Argentine fighters and also their great rugby culture and that my views were perhaps much against the mainstream convention where there is a rivalry and some politics involved

I cheer Los Pumas on whenever they play a test match - they're one of one my favourite international sports teams - and I was the very first guy to celebrate that they had beaten The All Blacks in Rugby.

[Fray Bentos]

Feckin' hell chaps please don't be so quick and vitriolic to judge or jump on the pulpit.

.....what I said was that I really loved my Argentine fighters and also their great rugby culture and that my views were perhaps much against the mainstream convention where there is a rivalry and some politics involved

I cheer Los Pumas on whenever they play a test match - they're one of one my favourite international sports teams - and I was the very first guy to celebrate that they had beaten The All Blacks in Rugby.

You brought up being 'British' about the reason why you shouldn't like Argentina xyz - and Antonio Martin rightly said whatever happened in 1982 had nothing more to do with you nor the ordinary people of Argentina and certainly not Juan Roldan - he wasn't at Mount Tumbledown and nor were you.

I am British and I love everything about Argentina - I wonder what that makes me.