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This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article on three fights – dated June 23, 1986.
The Las Vegas triple-header card is – Thomas Hearns vs. Mark Medal / WBC Super Welterweight Championship, Barry McGuigan vs. Steve Cruz / WBA Featherweight Championship, and Roberto Duran vs. Robbie Sims / 10 Round Middleweight Bout.
By David Martinez / dmboxing.com
This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article on two heavyweight fights – dated November 1, 1981. As the original article is damaged and unreadable, this is the file copy piece prior to publication.
The heavyweight doubleheader featured Larry Holmes vs. Renaldo Snipes for the WBC heavyweight championship, and also the co-feature Michael Dokes vs. George Chaplin.
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This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features two article pieces – my pre-fight (dated: November 9, 1981) on the Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Duran for the “undisputed” middleweight championship … and, a post-fight (dated: November 11, 1983) by Dave Kohl, Sports Editor / Santa Barbara News Press, on the large gathering we held at my home to watch the fight.
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This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – dated June 11, 1981 – on two world championship fights … Larry Holmes vs. Leon Spinks for the WBC Heavyweight title, and Marvin Hagler vs. Vito Antuofermo for the WBA/WBC Middleweight title.
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This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – dated December 6, 1985 – on the Donald Curry vs. Milton McCrory WBA/IBF/WBC Welterweight “unification” Championship Fight.
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In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – dated March 18, 1983 – on Michael Spinks vs. Dwight (Braxton) Muhammad Qawi for the WBA/WBC Light Heavyweight Championship.
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In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – dated September 7, 1983 – on the Aaron Pryor vs. Alexis Arguello “rematch” for the WBA Junior Welterweight Championship.
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By David Martinez / dmboxing.com
In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my letter to the sports editor of the Santa Barbara (California) News Press – dated January 6, 1999 – regarding the passing of Jerry Quarry.
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This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my article titled “The Time is Now for Reunification” – dated April 23, 1998 – regarding the need in boxing for single champions in every division, especially heavyweight.
As we know it today, boxing has certainly not bought into that concept due to promoters and the various governing organizations solely controlling their own champions.
By David Martinez / dmboxing.com
In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” is a featured column that ran on August 25, 1982. It was written by Dave Kohl, Sports Editor of the Santa Barbara, California, News Press on my behalf saying THANK YOU to a fan that sent me the original June 13, 1938 issue of Liberty Magazine which featured Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.
