He fought but once in April 1981, kayoing journeyman Tony Tris (TKO 4). Rosario actually didn’t fight in that certain pre-70’s era of the very riveting New York’s Felt Forum, as we’ve known it. Not when you’re a Three-time Lightweight sensation, and a One-time junior welterweight champion, like Edwin “El Chapo” Rosario, 47-6, 41 KO’s, been. And lesser had the kind of potent punch to annihilate oppositions in engaging efforts to outbox them before taking them out. Golden gloves, and a necessity to signing bonuses turning pro as a sixteen year old for an opportunity to escape hardships which hadn’t happen to many kids. In the boxing sense of the word he was a loner, fighting for his livelihood, beloved homeland, and potentialities that lay before any pragmatic roots took over being planned along the way, however, there was nothing mistaken about him in the Lightweight division where he made havoc a household name.ĭidn’t need to wait till age 20 to make the 1984 Olympic games set in LA, not already having won 28 amateur fights of 30, the junior Olympics and the P.R. However, Mike and Edwin have been stablemates for roughly six years together under managers Cayton and Jacobs. His work pads at the gymnasium took more battering, very often ruining them.īenitez’s contract came much later on when his father Gregorio sold it to Jacobs for $75,000. His right hand had the kinds of anonymity to it to cancel, and yet he fought very grounded stock in his speed and lateral movement. And when he hit you with his right cross, it most assuredly came after you having gotten several welts from a predisposed body beating. The three were Wilfred Benitez, Mike Tyson, with the third chap called “El Chapo”. It’s been already ten years since his demise, but what the late film collector Jimmy Jacobs and managerial expert, and confidant, the late Bill Cayton, found in three individuals in the form of the Bronx, Brownsville, Brooklyn, and Puerto Rico, perceived about as fundamentally sound as getting a primal benediction from a Priest, with its flock receiving signs of the cross before taking communion wafers. When as a youngster he looked up and idolized his older brother who bled from the same substance abuse wounds in an impoverished barrio… the neighborhood streets of Toa Baja. It might have ended before it began for this fighter. ![]() ![]() 23-year old Featherweight great Salvador Sanchez’s life went much too quickly, about as sudden as a speeding car wreck could, and his life was snuffed out in the blink of an eye just as his love for fast cars once did.ĭeath, old and insensitive a necessary distinguishable thing is not a purgatory, any more then it’s not a willing and able circumstance once taken by surprise? There’s another one that approaches by candlelight vigil, yearly for ten years time now in the island of Puerto Rico. The beloved Middleweight Carlos Monzon met his untimely death on a weekend furlough hurriedly returning to a prison cell completing an old portion about his life to start another one with a new family. For some of those headstones not all of them get to realize before going through that light on its journey so willingly, whether merited, or terribly burdened by any conscious effort. The physicality and the soul in which men, women or child whose left that breath of life departed, has confounded most of us - to the damn near shaken exteriors reminding those who joined an other side that presumably holds court for eternal rests - reaching from beyond every partition as they go on occasion to speak, adhering for some of us to be listening beyond devises from the gravesites. What could be found are the circumstances surrounding divulged, with about as lengthy a history about the private demons battled which tells very little in manners of consequence other then proxy. Sometimes, given the chance, an immediacy to find a reason isn’t placed to reasonably get you to know as much as discovering whether it is by accident, design, or turned expedient assuming it was. ![]() ![]() An almost inconceivable regret and unapologetic manner in the ways some leave only to return in torment from beyond. It is with this in mind that December holds a special meaning amongst our boxing constituents from identical comfort zones, respects, and the lonesome restless ones who’ve gone before their time abruptly, without having the chance to be saying goodbye. That might strike something of a vital cord or two to the living, that there are dead who walk amongst us who don’t have a home whilst other ones are simply roaming for comfort in seeking rest. Death that arrives so suddenly, without warning, is to the Latin community about as desolate and lonely a tortured spirit taken to go elsewhere that there are special services held for the departed.
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