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Entries tagged with "Fighting+Harada":

• Lionel Rose vs. Fighting Harada – February 26th, 2019

  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…
  
  

• Johnny Famechon vs. Fighting Harada II – January 5th, 2019

  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…
  
  

• Fighting Harada vs. Pone Kingpetch – October 9th, 2018

  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...
  
  

• GGG & Chocolatito: Reputation vs. Reality – September 4th, 2016

  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?
  
  

• Walter McGowan: Scottish Boxing Master, Dies at 73 – February 17th, 2016

  How good was Wee Walter? At his best, and when luck was with him, his pure skill could take people’s breath away…
  
  

• Happy Trails: Boxing’s Swinging End to the Sixties – January 2nd, 2016

  Thank goodness for boxing, eh? Through it all, the ancient game did what it has always done for better or for worse…
  
  

• Kazuto Ioka Defends Flyweight Title – August 11th, 2015

  Gone the days, perhaps, when Fighting Harada stood alone atop the center pedestal in the pantheon of great Japanese fighters…
  
  

• The All-Time Bantamweight Tournament – July 1st, 2015

  The bantamweight who is generally considered the greatest of all time by boxing commentators faces the most unique bantamweight of all time…
  
  

• How Lionel Rose Inspired a Nation – January 7th, 2014

  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...
  
  

• Boxing Is My Passion, My Sanctuary – November 6th, 2013

  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…
  
  

• The Ill-Advised Comeback – August 7th, 2013

  The message here is crystal clear and harsh; most comebacks end up being an exercise in embarrassment and even ignominy. Most are ill-advised…
  
  

• My Top Ten Pound-for-Pound Fighters (Since 1945) – July 31st, 2013

  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…
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Seven: 40-31 – April 3rd, 2013

  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...
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Five: 60-51 – March 22nd, 2013

  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...
  
  

• Rest in Peace, Jesus “Chucho” Castillo – January 16th, 2013

  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...
  
  

• Number 19 Dream – October 20th, 2012

  
  
  

• Sandy Saddler: Devilishly Dangerous – July 10th, 2012

  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...
  
  

• Runaway Train: The Prime George Foreman – May 9th, 2012

  Those opponents who saw any light at the end of the tunnel were usually staring at Foreman’s oncoming train...
  
  

• Global Boxing Patterns – February 5th, 2012

  If there is one conclusion that stands out from the rest, it is that the entire global boxing landscape has become just that…
  
  

• The Boy from Brazil: Eder Jofre – January 8th, 2012

  There was always something to admire, something to cherish, something to make the blood tingle in Jofre's fights...
  
  

• Induct Fierce Eagle into the Hall – November 29th, 2011

  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…”