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Over forty five years ago one of my closest friends and I would check all the weekend TV for boxing matches.
ABC Wild World of Sports and CBS Sports Spectacular used to show championship fights especially weights under the heavyweight class.
Duran versus DeJesus. Danny Red Lopez. Carlos Monzon. Halgler. Hearns. Alexis Arguello. We would never miss anything.
Later as closed circuit started we would take any big fight day off. We were crazy for boxing. Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, Norton. We were all in. We always made the big fights a special event. It was a blast.
Irwin my buddy later became a boxing judge. He did a few big HBO fights. He traveled around and judged a lot of small fights. He did some undercards of big fights. We were really close friends. He got me autographs of Ali, Duran, and Holmes.
He passed away in 2020. Last night made me think of him. I texted another guy who was part of our boxing buddies last night. I told him a fight day always made me think of Irwin.
When Irwin got into judging I could have done it with him but I was married with kids and was way too busy.
Outside of Canelo Alvarez there is nobody that I would care to watch. Although I am sure there are some great young guys coming up.
I don't care for MMA etc.
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