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Entries tagged with "Rodrigo+Valdez":

• Carlos Monzon vs. Rodrigo Valdez – August 12th, 2011

  The Argentinean Carlos Monzon was one of the greatest middleweights of all time. He was smart fighter. He was a tough fighter. And he was as handsome as he was rugged. When he fought Rodrigo Valdez in Monte Carlo on June 26, 1976, Monzon was 34 and his best years were behind him. It was his 100th bout, and he hadn't lost a fight in 12 years, but Monzon had grown bored with boxing and wanted to be a movie star. But when he had to fight, he knew what he had to do...
  
  

• One Tough Cat: Dick Tiger – October 18th, 2011

  The need to call upon my golden memories becomes ever greater in order to ward off despair...
  
  

• Father, Fighter, and Play – November 21st, 2011

  Cassidy’s gift at describing the emotions he felt watching his father fight is the same gift he brings to his playwriting...
  
  

• Rodrigo Valdes vs. Bennie Briscoe II – March 26th, 2012

  Rodrigo Valdez and Bennie Briscoe fought three times in the 1970s. Their second fight, on May 25, 1974, at Stade Louis II in Monte Carlo, Monaco, for the vacant WBC middleweight title, was one of the great middleweight fights in history. Valdez, hailing from Colombia, was 50-4-2 going in. Briscoe, a quintessential Philly fighter, was 49-12-1. Both men were notoriously hard punchers. But one man's punches were notoriously harder in Monte Carlo...