By David Martinez / Boxing Historian / dmboxing.com

In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – dated January 29, 1982 – on the Wilfred Benitez vs. Roberto Duran WBC Junior Middleweight Championship fight – which was published in the Santa Barbara News Press on January 29, 1982.

Many of my current readers don’t know that back in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, I was a boxing beat writer for my local newspaper, the Santa Barbara News Press.

I learned quite a bit about the journalism field in those early years that has surely propelled me to be the best I can be today in producing my website, www.dmboxing.com … as it’s simply my pleasure to serve!