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Just been looking at his record, man he was matched tough. No wonder he finished with a 8-15-1 record

Debut against a 15-0 fighter
7th fight against James Kitchen who was 33-0-1
8th fight against Mark Holmes who was 29-0
9th fight against Michael Nunn who was 9-0
12th fight against Milton McCrory who was 29-1-1
14th fight against Iran Barkley who was 21-3
15th fight against Lindell Holmes who was 33-5
18th fight against Nigel Benn who was 22-1

Only ever stopped twice, once by retirement and the other time in his last fight against Julio Cesar Gonzalez (24-0) and then he was subsequently retired by the California Commission.

In the Benn fight, Amparo was well behind thru 8 when Benn hurt his ankle and had some anxious moments as Amparo went on the attack. At least that's the way I seem to remember it.

A very useful fighter.today for sure he would be in the top ten and challenge for one of the middleweight title.quality trialhorse who fought in the divisions toughest era post monzon days

Seamus wrote:In the Benn fight, Amparo was well behind thru 8 when Benn hurt his ankle and had some anxious moments as Amparo went on the attack. At least that's the way I seem to remember it.

Yes sounds familiar

I remember this bloke.

The only true stoppage on his record was against Brent Kosolofski (the other happened when he was 46 and against the excellent Julio Cesar Gonzalez - didn't he die in a car crash?).

So the big question is..... how f*cking good was Brent Kosolofski?

I've never heard of the bloke & I was a record hound back then. So I had a look & saw that he beat Michael Gale for the Commonwealth Title (Brent Kosolofski was Canadian) which hhe never defended. In fact, two months after beat Gale - who was undefeated at the time - he fought a bloke who was 0-25(19)-0. Yes, that is correct. He'd lost all of his 25 fights & been stopped in 19 of them & fought the new Commonwealth Champion

Kosolofski followed this up with two further wins in 1986, both against losing fighters then suddenly stopped fighting.

I HAVE to find out more