Living with a legend – Adam Smith goes behind the scenes with Marco Antonio Barrera

By Adam Smith

Mexico is a most proud nation. The people are patriotic, the families are huge and tight-knit; their boxers seemingly born to fight.

The list of Mexican greats reads like a who’s who in the history of the sport: Salvador Sanchez, Vicente Saldivar, Miguel Canto, Ruben Olivares, Carlos Zarate, Pipino Cuevas, Julio Cesar Chavez, Humberto ‘Chiquita’ Gonzalez, Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez – who was never beaten – and of course the amazing Julio Cesar Chavez. read more

Filed under: Carlos Zarate, Erik "El Terrible" Morales, Julio Cezar Chavez, Marco Antonio "The Baby-Faced Assassin" Barrera, Salvador Sanchez

IF WE HAD MORE STARS LIKE PACQUIAO, WOULD BOXING BE BIG TODAY?

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by Pedro Fernandez

DREAMS OF THE LAST GOLDEN ERA PERSIST!

San Francisco, CA- Rarely does a day go by where I don’t think a bit about the last golden era of boxing, that being the late 1970s to the late 1980s, just before the light began to dim circa 1991-92. This time period had Roberto Duran, Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes, Thomas Hearns, Mike McCallum, Aaron Pryor, Alexis Arguello, Salvador Sanchez, Carlos Zarate, and of course Mike Tyson, these were just some of the leading actors. With supporting cast members like Davey Moore, Pipino Cuevas, Wilfred Benitez, Gerry Cooney, Wilfred Benitez, Alfonso Zamora, Lupe Pintor, Alfredo Escalera, and Donald Curry, “superfights” were often the rule and not the exception! read more

Filed under: Aaron Pryor, Alexis Arguello, Carlos Zarate, Larry Holmes, Manny Pacquiao, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Salvador Sanchez, Thomas Hearns, Wilfred Benitez