SHOWTIME Boxing Analyst And Historian Gives Wish List Of Top Mythical Matchups Spanning Generations
ЊУЈОРК (Септембар 18, 2018) – International Boxing Hall of Famer Steve Farhood celebrates four decades in boxing this Tuesday, exactly 40 years since he started working exclusively in the business in 1978.
Farhood began his career writing for various boxing publications at London Publishing on Monday, Септембар 18, just three days after Muhammad Ali regained the heavyweight title vs. Leon Spinks on Friday, Септембар 15.
After launching KO Magazine у 1980 and serving as editor-in-chief of Прстен Магазине for nearly a decade, Farhood joined SHOWTIME in 2001 and has been a staple on the СхоБок: Нова генерација series since its inception more than 17 пре неколико година.
Over the past 40 године, Farhood has nearly seen it all in the Sweet Science. Сада, as he prepares for consecutive Fridays of СхоБок telecasts, the lifelong New Yorker lists a handful of mythical matchups he’d love to see, regardless of the generation.
FARHOOD’S TOP MYTHICAL MATCHUPS:
Joe Frazier-Mike Tyson (тешка категорија): The ultimate dream fight. No jabs allowed.
Roberto Duran-Alexis Arguello (лак): They were both 135-pounders, just not at the same time.
Sugar Ray Robinson-Sugar Ray Leonard (велтер категорија): Biggest crime in boxing history: There’s no video of Robinson as a welter, when he was at his very best.
Sugar Ray Leonard-Floyd Mayweather Jr. (велтер категорија): The best fighter I’ve ever covered versus the best fighter of this generation.
Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano (тешка категорија): Boxing’s big men were smaller back in the day, but pound-for-pound, nobody hit harder than these two.
Marvin Hagler-Carlos Monzon (миддлевеигхт): All-timer vs. all-timer. My guess: Monzon’s style would be all wrong for Hagler. Match B-Hop (Бернард Хопкинс) with the winner.
Salvador Sanchez-Eusebio Pedroza (феатхервеигхтс): My opinion on this delicious matchup of Hall of Famers is an unpopular one: Pedroza wins on points.
Wilfredo Gomez-Manny Pacquiao (junior featherweights): In the early-‘80s, Gomez was as close to a perfect fighting machine as there was. But would his chin hold up vs. a 122-pound Manny?
This Friday on СхоБок: Нова генерација, top undefeated super featherweight prospect Jon Fernandez (16-0, 14 КОс) will clash with O’Shaquie Foster (13-2, 8 КОс) in the 10-round main event of a four-fight card featuring eight fighters with a combined record of 81-2-1 са 56 нокаута.
Следећа петак, Септембар 28, СхоБок returns for a tripleheader headlined by 19-year-old blue-chip prospect Devin Haney (19-0, 13 КОс) taking on former three-time world title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos (33-2-2, 21 КОс).
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Око СхоБок: Нова генерација
Од свог оснивања у јулу 2001, похвале критике СХОВТИМЕ бокс серије, СхоБок: Нова генерација начињен је млади таленат упарен тврд. The СхоБок филозофија је да емитовати преко телевизије узбудљиво, Публика-угодан и такмичарских мечева док пружају само полигон за вољних изгледима одлучни да се боре за светску титулу. Неки од растућој листи 77 борци који су се појавили на СхоБок и напредна како би придобио светске титуле укључује: Ерол Спенс Јр, Андре Вард, Деонтаи Вилдер, Ерисланди Лара, Шон Портер, Гари Расел Јр, Ламонт Петерсон, Гуиллермо Ригондеаук, Нонито Донаире, Девон Александар, Царл Фроцх, Роберт Гуерреро, Тимоти Бредли, Џеси Варгас, Хуан Мануел Лопез, Чад Досон, Поли Малигнагги, Рицки Хаттон, Кели Павлик, Пол Вилијамс и више.