In the fifth round, the tide would change and Rosario was riding a surfboard right into the storm which was Camacho. On this night, the nickname “Macho” was truly put to the test, and Camacho earned every dime of his $500,000 paycheck.ĭuring the first two rounds, the fighters split them, winning two each. On paper, this fight had the makings of a “Super Fight.” By the attendance that evening at Madison Square Garden in New York, it lived up to the hype. Rosario had a record of 28-1 with 24 knockouts. Going into this fight, Camacho was at the top of his game with a perfect record of 29-0 with 16 knockouts. Camacho won by a 12 round unanimous decision, and Rosario was stopped in four by Ramirez. Rosario lost the title that Camacho held to Jose Luis Ramirez, who Camacho beat to win it ten months earlier. Camacho was defending against fellow Puerto Rican, and former WBC Lightweight Champion Edwin “Chapo” Rosario. That 24 year old champion was none other than Hector “Macho” Camacho. In the boxing world, the equivalent to a modern day “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya was defending his World Boxing Council Lightweight Championship (WBC) title for the first time.
Nintendo video games are introduced in the United States and sales sky rocket. Oprah Winfrey’s show hits the airwaves on national television. Barry Diller, head of News Corp., creates Fox, the fourth television network. So I could see it.Remember When: Hector Camacho Vs Edwin Rosario
Round that time you had Hagler, Michael Spinks, Thomas Hearns (at junior middle), Aaron Pryor, Larry Holmes (slightly post-peak but still the top heavyweight by a fair margin), Eusebio Pedroza and a few others (Don Curry, an ascending JC Chavez probably wasn’t quite there yet, Sot Chitalada, Carlos DeLeon … but cruisers weren’t held in high regard yet). Thanks for the shoutout but I couldn’t tell you his exactly P4P rating at any time, but it seems reasonable he broke the top 10 in that mythical category after beating Mancini twice … and perhaps could have been as high as No. I think he was a bit hard to buy into as a force because there were questions about whether Mancini’s heart and head were into it after the Kim death and Bramble didn’t stick around at the top long enough for people to say, ‘Well I guess he’s proven it enough against others.’ But for a short time he was one of the better in the game. It takes a lot of drilling to even come close to mastering … really good for points but not necessarily for power unless your guy just has natural pop because it’s more of a reflex counter than a set-up counter where you have time to shift weight. Very good defensively (not always recognized), he had an interesting technique that we studied and tried to apply a bit in our gym for a time - high guard and if you threw a left he’d block/deflect it with his right and shoot a right back quickly while your left was retreating to guard position likewise the same with his right if you threw a left. So I could see it.īramble was a shooting star who burned out pretty quickly after the Rosario bombing but was something at his peak.
Click to expand.Thanks for the shoutout but I couldn’t tell you his exactly P4P rating at any time, but it seems reasonable he broke the top 10 in that mythical category after beating Mancini twice … and perhaps could have been as high as No.
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