By David Martinez / Boxing Historian / dmboxing.com
In this edition of “Pages From The Scrapbook” features my pre-fight article piece – that was published in the Santa Barbara News Press on May 6, 1982 for viewing – regarding the Arturo Frias vs. Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini WBA Lightweight Championship fight.
Many of my current readers don’t know that back in the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, I was a boxing beat writer for my local daily newspaper, the Santa Barbara News Press.
I learned lots about the journalism field in those early years that has truly propelled me to be that best I can be today in producing my own website, www.dmboxing.com … AND – it is simply such a pleasure to serve!
What a wonderful article! Irs magical, how as I read each line of this account and prediction and I can start to feel the energy and excitement about boxing that I felt during that era as a young teenager. It’s bittersweet reading about Sanchez successes and the future of a fight with legend, Alexis Arguello, and knowing in hind sight, just how and why that fight never happened. Happy new year and looking forward to another solid year of legendary boxing updates from the people that make dmboxing.com possible.
Very well said Joel.