Fenech gets inside of Olivares' looping punches and breaks him down, the way Raf Herrera did to him TWICE. Fenech by mid- or late-round stoppage.
Hmmm....I would not take that Olivares into this fight vs. Fenech; by the Herrera fights (hell by '71 and the Pascualito fight) Olivares was getting sloppy, undisciplined. Gimme the '68 version. I agree Fenech wins, but this is one fight where he's getting rocked and likely dropped once or twice before he does the job. Olivares could box and use his legs very well when he wanted to...and do it neatly. But if there was a style that was the antidote to Olivares' boxing skill and crunching power, and that could draw Ruben in to BRAWL, it was Fenech's mauling, swarming, relentless attack.....with fast hands. That's the key, because it has to be a top-notch swarmer who can outspeed Olivares and beat him to the punch. And yeah, Ruben's penchant for looping more than he had to hurts him here. And Fenech was the bigger man at bantam in both height and "mass" if you will. This is a fight, however, where Fenech cannot simply ignore or bull through the incoming fire...and Olivares would be moving then stopping to deliver those big counter punches and moving again...and taking all those opportunities Fenech offers to hit him big. I think Olivares' uppercuts do a job too. Would have been a hell of a firefight. Fenech late or by decision. Peace.
