By David Martinez / dmboxing.com
This edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece on four title fights which was published in the Santa Barbara News Press on May 19, 1983.
The quadruple Las Vegas fight card is – Larry Holmes vs. Tim Weatherspoon / WBC Heavyweight Championship … Michael Dokes vs. Mike Weaver / WBA Heavyweight Championship … Greg Page vs. Renaldo Snipes / USBA Heavyweight Championship … Ossie Ocasio vs. Randy Stephens / WBA Junior-Cruiserweight Championship.
Many of my viewers today don’t know that back in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, I was a boxing beat free lance writer for my local newspaper, the Santa Barbara News Press, doing boxing fight predictions and other boxing related news.
It was such a wonderful blessing during that time of my life, as I experienced the whole journalism field, and it propelled me to be the best that I can be in producing my dmboxing.com website.
I had Spoon v Holmes dead even. This Spoon, in shape, before King screwed him was a challenge for any HW champion in history imho.