20 Years Ago Today: When Wild Man Ricardo Mayorga Upset Vernon Forrest
Rewind to January of 2003, and Vernon Forrest was one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world. The unbeaten welterweight had stunned Sugar Shane Mosley to win the WBC title, and “The Viper” had proven how his dominant decision win (with two knockdowns making the scores that much wider in Forrest’s favor) was no fluke, this by defeating Mosley in the return fight.