FIGHTLINE
BUCHANAN TKO 6 ORTIZ SEPT. 20, 1972
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FEENEY W 8 BUCHANAN JAN. 25, 1982
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PACQUIAO TKO 8 DE LA HOYA DEC. 6, 2008
MANCINI UD 10 FEENEY FEB. 6, 1983
DE LA HOYA UD 12 CAMACHO SEPT. 13, 1997
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CAMACHO SD 12 MANCINI MARCH 6, 1989
PACQUIAO UD 12 VARGAS NOV. 5, 2016
MARTIN MD 10 GARCIA OCT. 16, 2021
LOPEZ SD 10 MARTIN DEC. 10, 2022
GARCIA UD 12 VARGAS FEB. 29, 2020
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F ights only last a matter of minutes, but fighters are connected to each other by chains that extend for decades – even centuries – into the past. Their bond is a lineage built face-to-face: A young prospect struggles with the skills of an aging veteran whose nose was once broken by a fighter now enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In that way, muscle memory carries knowledge and boxers face a piece of everyone their opponent has fought, everyone those people fought, and so on. This month we’re linking one of the best fighters of the 1960s, Carlos Ortiz, with one of the most talented boxers of the current generation, Teofimo Lopez, who, like the
underrated Puerto Rican hall of famer, is a two-division champ. Both wore the lightweight and junior welterweight crowns. There are multiple paths linking the crafty boxer-punchers whose primes are separated by 60 years, but we’ve selected this nine-boxer Fightline. There’s at least one way to get there faster. Can you find it? If so, or if you have another Fightline you’d like to submit, send it to comeoutwriting@gmail.com. And remember, some fighters can be linked on paper by jumping forward and backward in time, but to be a true lineage the fights must come in chronological order.
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