On This Day: Bobby Chacon’s Last Great Fight
40 years ago today, astonishing ring warrior Bobby Chacon, a blood and guts warrior of the highest order, a man who was seemingly never in a boring fight, gave us his final great one.
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Long After The Fans Stop Cheering: Fighters Who Paid The Ultimate Price For Being Warriors
Bobby Chacon, Meldrick Taylor, Wilfred Benitez…..Muhammad Ali.
These are just four of the most famous cases of ring casualties we can list; fighters who thrilled millions yet left the sport (far too late) as seriously damaged human beings.
Bobby Chacon: Perhaps The Most Exciting Ring Warrior Ever
If he had lived, as he so fully deserved to; living into early old age like fellow greats, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman and Larry Holmes, Bobby Chacon would soon be turning 70 today.