Chan Young Park vs Takuya Muguruma. One of the best bantamweight wars of the 80s. One of the most unseen wars of the 80s period. Also one of the best fights in the Japan vs South Korea rivalry, with the Korean (Park) coming on on top in the end.
I love the idea of these two vs McCullough or Rabanales just as much as I do Tatsuyoshi. BW has always given us incredible action, and so has SBW.
Without looking, I don't think the full fight is on YT. I think Park's loss to Khaosai is on YT. The one I've been looking for for years now is Park vs Vasquez. It must have been filmed. Not sure why it's never been posted.
Asian boxing doesn't have the Galaxy or Vasquez fights, and hasn't for a while since I looked for them last year. However, they do have the Oguma fight.
The Galaxy fight used to be YT, I remember it being there. I think it was in very shitty condition though. Asian Boxing has removed a ton of their fights. I actually emailed the guy who runs it to find out why. Seems they've fallen out with a Korean Network that owns the rights to a lot of these fights.
20 years ago, 25 even, Bantam and then Super Bantamweight was the place to be. 25 years ago....McCullough vs Bueno was a sort of a low-grade war but a great TV fight in any era and a fight which was a harbinger of what was to come at 122, both for McCullough and the others who would fight and hold the 122lb title. If Mac had won the 122lb WBC title vs Zaragoza that would have been the single most impressive achievement of a British or Irish fighter of my lifetime. Quarter of a century ago, I watched this fight for FREE with my father. Boxing would change a LOT in the next few years.
A Fenech vs McCullough matchup would have been fun. A vicious, one sided beating in favor of Fenech, but would have been fun.
Yeah, this was the last fight of Chandler's career. I think by this point, cocaine had taken its toll on him. Fair play to Sandoval though, he was very talented. Not the most dedicated trainer though, so he never fought at that level again.
This was McCullough's best performance. Overwhelming and beating Johnny Bredahl, who was a quality technician:
Bredahl went on to fight Paulie Ayala to the wire, beat him on a lot of peoples cards at 118lb That Ayala got a lot of luck. Twice vs Tapia
Type of fight that I'd find hard to watch except live and the type of stoppage I'd applaud. The outcome of that fight was never in doubt. Another 4 rounds of running around touching the ropes... No thanks.
Was it coke that was the issue with Chandler? I know he had bad eye problems and that's why he didn't come back but wasn't aware of a drug problem. Not saying there wasn't, just hadn't heard that before about Joltin Jeff. EDIT: just read about it. I'm such an innocent. He was busted as early as 1981 for possession!
McCullough was hired as a writer by secondsout after his career. Probably the worst boxing writer ever. Guy article were so bland and generic they seems to have been written by an algorithm
