Cristiano Espana and Victor Cordova - where are they now?

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

I know they boxed for Barney Eastwood and trained under Eddie Shaw over there in Belfast and I read somewhere they they both married Irish nurses and settled down in west Belfast? Do they still live there or did they go back to South America? I know Victor Cordova was trained Eammon Magee for his fight vs Hatton but I would like to know how they are doing now - I know someone on here will know!

[TerribleTerry]

Good shout Carlos - 2 cracking fighters - both world class in their own rights.

Didnt Cordova beat Tiozzo in France? A very good result in retrospect.

Would like to know what they are up to myself..

[Deserter]

x2.
Always thought Espana would have a longer time at the top as he was a formidable physical specimen - remember reading an interview where he revealed he used to run a marathon distance on his 'rest day'
He had the misfortune to meet a prime Ike Quartey though. Strange that he basically retired after that only defeat, especially as he was right in the fight until he got bombed out.
Eamonn Loughran's another one who just dropped off the scene at welter after losing one big bout around the same sort of time.

[TerribleTerry]

There was a 3rd south american import at that time in that very successful gym - Oscar Checa.

He had a real bang on him but lacked the chin or technique of his more successful contemporaries.

I think he was involved with training fighters once his career was over...

[bennie]

The Checas, Bernardo and Oscar, are still involved with training in John Breen's gym in Belfast. Espana and Cordoba - unlike the Checas - made it 'big' of course and I doubt they would have hung around in Belfast to hold a bucket for someone like Eamonn Magee.

[Syntax Error]

I remember Espana battering Meldrick Taylor (Taylor deserved to lose for those shorts he wore ).

I really thought he was going to become a decent champ, as someone has said previously, he was a tremendous physical specimen.

[bennie]

I remember Espana battering Meldrick Taylor (Taylor deserved to lose for those shorts he wore ).

I really thought he was going to become a decent champ, as someone has said previously, he was a tremendous physical specimen.

I watched him fight once, against Del Bryan at the Albert Hall in 1989. His body punching was vicious. He whipped in the uppercuts with those drainpipe arms of his. Bryan took them all without flinching and lost on points.

[DIRT SUGAR]

About 6'1 with a 100-inch wingspan and tough too. Quartey fight was a cracker if I remember.

Remember thinking now sad it was the way he battered a punched out Taylor, he really took him to pieces.

[Old bones Ian]

Its Crisanto Espana, Victor Cordoba

how pedantic am i

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Its Crisanto Espana, Victor Cordoba

how pedantic am i

Fair enough but I am pretty positive that Victor was always reported as Cordova??? I am sure Bennie will clear this up.

Edit: Yup, I thought so - my mind isn't going just quite yet - Victor was always known as Cordova at the time - God knows why they have changed it to 'Cordoba'

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