43 years ago today….
July 13, 1980
Matthew Saad Muhammad 🇺🇸 stops Alvaro Lopez 🇲🇽 in round 14 of rematch.
@ringmagazine Fight Of The Year & Round Of The Year (8)
Say what you want; criticize as you will; But the fact of the mater is; Mike Tyson was the most spectacular athlete I have ever seen.Power & speed like someone from another planet.All other sports were put on back burner.when fought
Lew Jenkins, hard-punching lightweight from Sweetwater, Texas known as the "Sweetwater Swatter" who held the championship from 1940 to 1941. Jenkins won the title from Lou Ambers and lost it to Sammy Angott.
#OnThisDay in 1996, Riddick Bowe was declared the winner in 7 rounds when Andrew Golota was disqualified for repeated low blows at Madison Square Garden in New York.
We covered both Bowe-Golota fiascos on our boxing history podcast
➡️ https://t.co/qklXv0FgAO
(📸 John Iacono)