GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com


11 OCTOBER 1984 I COVERED MY FIRST LAS VEGAS FIGHT....AT THE RIVIERA LAS VEGS STRIP...15 ROUNDER LARRY HOLMES AND BONECRUSHER SMITH.....IT WENT 12 WITH HOLMES SCORING A 12 ROUND KO....LAST RARE CHANCE TO SEE A 15 ROUNDER.


LAST NIGHT I GOT OUT MY 6 MAY 1995 CAESARS PALACE T SHIRT FROM THE OSCAR DE LA HOYA-RAFAEL RUELAS FIGHT TO COMMEMORATE OSCAR'S AND MY LAS VEGAS FIGHT HISTORY...OSCAR SCORED A SECOND ROUND TKO.


LAST NIGHT OSCARS GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS HAD 5 BOUT CLUB CARD AT THE HARD ROCK LAS VEGAS FOR FOX TV....I WAS THERE FOR THIS TOO...LOTS HAS CHANGED...HARDLY ANY BIG NAME FIGHTERS....LOTS OF TV WAIT TIME...LOTS OF AWFUL RAP MUSIC BETWEEN EVENTS AND OF COURSE MY AGE......AGAIN OSCAR AND I WERE THERE !


MY INTEREST...... IS A COMPETITIVE EVENT AND TO SEE SOME SKILLED BOXING.....WE SUCCEEDED.


10 PRETTY MUCH NAMELESS FIGHTERS (8 FEATHERWEIGHTS-120ISH POUNDS)  BUT FOUR REALLY CAME TO FIGHT...


JOSEPH DIAZ JR 11-1 AND RAMIRO ROBLES 12-1-1 WENT 10 ROUNDS AND REALLY BOXED...OF COURSE ALL DIAZ FANS DID NOT THINK HE LOST FOR THE FIRST TIME.


ALFONSO GOMEZ 24-6-2 AND ED PAREDES (JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHTS) WENT 10 ROUNDS...THIS THE FIGHT I REALIZED I CAME TO SEE....BOTH SHOWED EXPIERENCE...SKILLS AND WERE IN GREAT SHAPE.....GOMEZ WAS KNOCKED DOWN TWICE AND STILL GOT A UNANAMOUS DEFINITIVE DECISION SURPRISING ME AND JUDGE JERRY ROTH WHO WAS ALSO AT THE HOLMES AND DE LA HOYA FIGHTS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED.....HERE THE GREATEST BOXING JUDGE IN HISTORY AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE STILL COVER FIGHTS...TO MET PEOPLE LIKE THIS...GREAT TO SEE YOU JERRY.


THANKS TO GOLDEN BOY FOR THIS NICE CARD AT THIS NICE VENUE...THEY DO THIS TO PROMOTE FUTURE EVENTS....EVENTS UNAVAILABLE TO MOST.


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