nbajr2003 wrote:
Uchiha_Nivri wrote:
nbajr2003 wrote:
sorry about that. how about sugar ray robinson?
haven't heard of any asian middleweight contenders during the 40's either (except for Ceferino Garcia, who lost to Henry Armstrong, who, in turn, lost to Ray Robinson)...
i read at boxrec that he fought a filipino by the name of bernard docusen, most likely a fil-am and at welterwight though.
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... r&pageID=2" The fastest and most exciting battle seen in a Chicago ring since the Rocky Graziano-Tony Zale battle in the Stadium a year before..Docusen proved a foeman worthy of Robinson's keenest steel..The flashy Filipino was not daunted in the least by Robinson's reputation...For ten rounds Docusen fought Robinson on fairly even terms, and there was little to choose..Robinson pulled his waning forces together at the start of the eleventh." Docusen was dazed by the attack and then Robinson caught him with a left hook that put him down for a nine count. Robinson "had fought himself out in the previous flurry and lacked the power to finish his reeling opponent. For the remainder of the fight Robinson had the upper hand." (quotes from report by Gene Engel in The Ring, September 1948, page 33.
i see.. nice dig bro...
anyway... if boxing greats like Robinson, Ali, Hagler, Leonard, Hearns, et. al., had the opportunity to fight boxers from every major continent, I would bet most of them (if not all of them) could have done the same.. that's probably why that's not considered as a spectacular achievement for manny...
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