SHOWTIME Boxing Analyst And Historian Gives Wish List Of Top Mythical Matchups Spanning Generations
НЬЮ-ЙОРК (September 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, September 18, just three days after Muhammad Ali regained the heavyweight title vs. Leon Spinks on Friday, September 15.
After launching KO Magazine дар 1980 and serving as editor-in-chief of The Ринг Magazine for nearly a decade, Farhood joined SHOWTIME in 2001 and has been a staple on the ShoBox: The насли нав series since its inception more than 17 соли гузашта.
Over the past 40 сол, Farhood has nearly seen it all in the Sweet Science. Ҳозир, as he prepares for consecutive Fridays of ShoBox 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 (гаронвазн): The ultimate dream fight. No jabs allowed.
Roberto Duran-Alexis Arguello (қабул намояд): They were both 135-pounders, just not at the same time.
Sugar Ray Robinson-Sugar Ray Leonard (welterweight): 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. (welterweight): The best fighter I’ve ever covered versus the best fighter of this generation.
Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano (гаронвазн): Boxing’s big men were smaller back in the day, but pound-for-pound, nobody hit harder than these two.
Marvin Hagler-Carlos Monzon (middleweight): 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 (featherweights): 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 ShoBox: The насли нав, top undefeated super featherweight prospect Jon Fernandez (16-0, 14 KOs) will clash with O’Shaquie Foster (13-2, 8 KOs) in the 10-round main event of a four-fight card featuring eight fighters with a combined record of 81-2-1 аз 56 knockouts.
Next Friday, September 28, ShoBox returns for a tripleheader headlined by 19-year-old blue-chip prospect Devin Haney (19-0, 13 KOs) taking on former three-time world title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos (33-2-2, 21 KOs).
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Дар бораи ShoBox: The насли нав
Аз марҳилаи оғозини худ дар моҳи июли 2001, ба интиқодӣ ки мисолҳои Бадр силсилаи бокс, ShoBox: The насли нав истеъдоди ҷавон тавсиф кардааст, мувофиқ кунонида пуртазоди. The ShoBox фалсафа аст, ки ба televise шавқовар, анбӯҳи писандида ва гӯгирд рақобат дар ҳоле, таъмини заминаи исбот барои дурнамои тайёр муайян ба мубориза барои унвони ҷаҳон. Баъзе аз рӯйхати парвариши аз 77 ҷангиён, ки дар бораи пайдо кардаанд ShoBox ва пешқадам барои овард унвонҳои ҷаҳон мегирад: Errol Spence Jr., Андре Ward, Deontay Wilder, Erislandy Лара, Shawn Портер, Гари Расселл Джр, Ламонт Петерсон, Гилермо Rigondeaux, Nonito Donaire, Девон Александр, Карл Froch, Роберт Герреро, Тимотиюс Брэдли, Jessie Варгас, Хуан Мануэл Лопес, Чад Доусон, Paulie Malignaggi, Рики Хаттон, Келли Pavlik, Павлус Williams ва бештар.