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Title Bout Championship Boxing, abbreviated as TBCB, is a text-based boxing simulation that offers historical and fictional play, as well as the ability to forecast upcoming bouts. It is based on the popular 1979 tabletop game of the same name, which was created by Jim and Tom Trunzo.
[30] [31] In doing so, he also became both the first Hispanic world Light-Heavyweight champion [32] and the first Afro-Puerto Rican to win a world boxing championship. The 1970s are generally considered the beginning of the golden era of boxing in Puerto Rico, an era that lasted until almost the 1990s, due to a number of factors.
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Graphically, the game won't astonish you but it will impart enough information and action to let you imagination fill in the gaps. Overall, this is the boxing game that gets the most play in my ring."
As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. [1] In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC, WBA, and lineal light-heavyweight championships. Torres trained with the legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato. In 1997, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
On 20 May 1983, Edwin Rosario outpoints Jose Luis Ramirez over 12 rounds by unanimous decision (three judges scoring the bout 115-113) to win the vacant World Boxing Council's Lightweight title, his first of three reigns as world Lightweight champion and four world championship reigns overall.
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born August 23, 1973) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2014. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from featherweight to light welterweight, including the lineal championship at lightweight.
A full-length version of a 19th-century title bout. The Gordon Sisters Boxing: 1901 Documentary Silent film The Joe Gans – Battling Nelson Fight: 1906 Archival footage Silent footage of most of the championship bout that lasted an astounding 48 rounds. The film company ran out of money – and film – in the 38th round and had to stop shooting
After losing his next bout, a ten round, non title bout against Tarcisio Gomez, on a decision, he went on to win 21 bouts in a row, including his first bout outside Mérida (a two round knockout of Pedro Martinez in Cansahcab, Mexico), and a win over Constantino Garcia on January 22, 1972, by twelve round decision, to claim the Mexican ...