Entries tagged with "Fighting+Harada":
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On February 27, 1968, at Nihon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, WBC/WBA bantamweight champion Fighting Harada, from Tokyo, Japan, defended his title against Australian bantamweight champion Lionel Rose, from Warragul, Victoria, Australia. Harada was 50-3 coming in. Rose was 27-2. The fight was scheduled for…
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On January 6, 1970 at Metropolitan Gym in Tokyo, Japan, WBC featherweight champion Johnny Famechon, from Melbourne, Australia via Paris, France, fought former WBC/WBA bantamweight champion Fighting Harada from Tokyo, Japan a second time. Their first fight was five months earlier at Sydney Stadium in…
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On October 10, 1962 at Kokugikan, Tokyo, Fighting Harada, from Tokyo, Japan, fought Pone Kingpetch, from Hua Hin, Thailand, for the WBA World flyweight title in the first of their two fights. Harada was 26-1 coming in. Kingpetch was 24-3. The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds...
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At what cost is the Kazakh willing to wait for his shot at a man who has already relinquished his belt and clearly gets his rocks off at being in control?
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How good was Wee Walter? At his best, and when luck was with him, his pure skill could take people’s breath away…
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Thank goodness for boxing, eh? Through it all, the ancient game did what it has always done for better or for worse…
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Gone the days, perhaps, when Fighting Harada stood alone atop the center pedestal in the pantheon of great Japanese fighters…
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The bantamweight who is generally considered the greatest of all time by boxing commentators faces the most unique bantamweight of all time…
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Rose was named Australian of the year in 1968 following his world title and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire...
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Boxing in the ring is genuine, but outside it can be harsh, for it has never been all that stringent in its application of scruples or morality…
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The message here is crystal clear and harsh; most comebacks end up being an exercise in embarrassment and even ignominy. Most are ill-advised…
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I analyzed their records, style, chin, KO percentages, skill-sets, entire body of work, quality of opposition, and especially the era in which they fought…
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These men can be “argued” higher, but can the men still to come be seen to be lower? Welcome to the annals of the forty greatest boxers in history...
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The more the game changes, the more it stays the same: knock the other guy out. Bring home the bacon. Hit and don’t get hit...
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Perhaps never a great champion, he might have been the greatest contender in bantamweight history. The boxing community is poorer today than it was yesterday...
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He was the ugly duckling of the game, the powerful and sometimes ungainly brute who gatecrashed the party and kicked sand in everyone’s face...
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Those opponents who saw any light at the end of the tunnel were usually staring at Foreman’s oncoming train...
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If there is one conclusion that stands out from the rest, it is that the entire global boxing landscape has become just that…
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There was always something to admire, something to cherish, something to make the blood tingle in Jofre's fights...
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Masaki Kanehira, Japan’s most renowned trainer and known as the maker of Japanese champions, called him “A genius who appears once every 100 years…”