Sanchez broke barriers for lighter-weight fighters, earning millions of dollars. Now I care nothing for the world. A movie and several exciting projects are in the planning stages as well. Sanchezâs widow, Teresa, recalled that he told her, âIâm going to put a hurting on this guy,â and when the fight was over, Gomez was left with a fractured cheekbone and both eyes swollen shut. Now the phone would not stop ringing.
The great Alexis Arguello is the greatest to have come out of Nicaragua, and is best known for his famous fights with Aaron Pryor. Wanting to stay active, Sanchez took a tune-up non-title fight against Nicky Perez just five weeks before he was scheduled to face Gomez.
However, the HBO broadcast picked up Aaron’s corner calling for ‘the special mix’ in between rounds, creating doubt around the purity of Pryor’s win. $59.95. Arroyo challenged for a flyweight world title two fights ago in Thailand in September 2014. IRS claims and creditors' bills stacked up for months in a small mountain of unopened letters. For two years he tried it. First it had been by his fatherland. I don't want to poison the world.". "Too many temptations. A month later, he was doing cable TV color commentary for a junior middleweight bout in Detroit between David Braxton and Reggie Miller. © Christian Giudice | Website provided by Woland Web.
As a youngster, Sanchez was a fan of wrestling, which was very popular in Mexico, but his closest friend, José Sosa, brought him to a boxing gym and he soon fell in love with the sport. His legs cannot stop jiggling, his hand keeps shooting out to ground him on the arm of his visitor. One loss, even one awkward win, will terminate his comeback. The rebels greeted him like a hero, then said, man, what are you doing here? Arguello left the officer. I'll monitor it more closely—I'll stop a fight quick if I have to.". I know who I am.
One night years ago, when he was 27, Arguello was hunting in Nicaragua with a friend and a flashlight. "Please, don't make me fight.". He could not bring himself to shoot. How?". Your cars—gone. I'm telling the kids on the street how important their lives are, and I'm killing myself.". When: Saturday And what about his brother Eduardo? All-time featherweight great Willie Pep was in attendance that night and was impressed with Sanchez, saying, âIâm glad he wasnât around in my era.â. He became one of eight men in history to win world championships in three weight divisions—featherweight, junior lightweight and lightweight—and the only one of those eight never to lose any of his titles in the ring. Another day in Spittler's office he had dropped to his knees and clutched the lawyer's hand. So much seemed incomprehensible. I don't trust myself. Arguello’s popularity was increasing, and so too was his belt collection. Over 50 times, he pushed a videotape button and watched it happen to him again. "I tried to put money in places where he wouldn't touch it," he says. Everything a man needed to believe in in order to feel secure, life could rub his face again and again until he understood its opposite might also be true. 1 pound-for-pound fighter is a great honor.
Arguello was inspired to box, after Eduardo purchased him his first set of gloves. The job that had once been his escape from contradiction, his one chance to feel clean, had become as complicated as the rest of his life.
Arguello laid down the gun. He felt that all the guilt that came from the distance between him and his barefoot past would thus be erased, all the hollow materialism of his present life would be redeemed. On Aug. 12, 1982, at the age of 23, Sanchezâs life was tragically cut short when he was killed in an automobile accident, while heading home from a night out with close friends alone in his Porsche 928S. She and their little boy moved out. One night Arguello reached for the drug when A.J. Braxton, far more experienced, was tattooing Miller, but the kid had the crowd roaring with his ability to respond.
In the 1983 rematch, there was little doubt about this result. We are important! Joe Louis could not regain a title after coming back from retirement, nor Willie Pep, Jim Jeffries, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Benny Leonard or Sugar Ray Leonard. "You owe the IRS $580,000," he told him. Then his chest heaved and he opened his eyes and groaned. Wildly torn, he wildly pursued opposites. Dec 12, 2015 - Explore Allan Cohen's board "ALEXIS ARGUELLO CHAMPIONSHIP BOXER", followed by 148 people on Pinterest. This was the last gym workout for Argguello prior to meeting junior-welter weight champion Aaron Pryor at the Orange Bowl November 12th.
His life was torn between the need to escape his reality and the desire to stay and fight it. It turned out to be the toughest fight of Sanchezâs career, but he was able to stop Nelson in the 15th round. The opponent crumpled. He formed a corporation to promote boxing matches and to start his own stable of fighters. After Sanchez halted Castanon in 10 rounds, negotiations began to set up a mega fight with knockout artist Wilfredo Gomez, who, to this day, is widely considered the best Puerto Rican boxer of all time. He thought his son was asleep, but the boy came out of his room. Was nothing clean? "You are important!
I have accepted I am a weak person. The world offered him a chair on a rope.
Suddenly they were spotted; bullets were zinging the air near his ears, plumes of dirt jumping from the ground near his feet. After defeating the fan-friendly brawler Danny âLittle Redâ Lopez for the title by 13th-round TKO in what was considered a big upset, Sanchez defended it against Ruben Castillo, 48-1 (26); Lopez in a rematch; the undefeated, 15-0 (10), freakishly tall at 6â1â Patrick Ford; the tough Juan LaPorte, who went on to become a champion; the number one contender and European champion, Roberto Castanon, 43-1 (24); the undefeated knockout artist, Wilfredo Gomez, 32-0-1 (32); Pat Cowdell; Jorge Garcia; and the future three-time champion, Azumah Nelson.
Here, he thought—here at last was something clean and final.
No, he cried—as long as he held this gun to his head, one resolution was possible. You will have to sell everything to pay off the IRS. After the verdict was announced, Gomez entered the ring and got into a little shoving match with Sanchez to help promote their fight. I didn't gain control of my life until I lost everything.
He felt himself living on the edge again, between hunger for battle and fear of its consequences; it was an aliveness he had not felt since retiring. Your yacht—gone.
It was Pryor who prevented the Nicaraguan from winning a title in a fourth division. Surely, he told himself, there must be something more to this life he had denied himself during those 16 years of fighting. I am ready, he hollered up.
His public relations firm and a close friend began dropping hints that he should get another divorce, he says. His eyes were dark and frightening. "Your houses—gone. "It's history, man. And this was how the Sandinistas rewarded Arguello? IRS agents.
Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs) will make his fourth title defense when he faces Puerto Rico’s Arroyo (16-2, 14 KOs) on April 23 (HBO, 10 p.m. ET/PT) at The Forum in Inglewood, California. "When I quit," he had said, "I'm not going to come back one year later like some other guys. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. "Don't make me fight again," he sobbed.
The roof and walls in the room where Arguello normally slept collapsed upon the empty bed. Pryor shelled him with 23 consecutive punches before Arguello collapsed. What happened to Arguello's money is not an easy thing to pinpoint, for the story is buried beneath a cross fire of accusations. I know how to work hard. To demonstrate just how highly respected Sanchez was as a fighter, he shared âFighter of the Yearâ honors with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1981âthe year Leonard knocked out Tommy Hearns.
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