BIG FIGHT MONDAY

Each week I am going to search Youtube and see if I can't find some GREAT fights that we don't talk about like we should. This time we are traveling to Mexico City in January 1968!

The referee for this contest! From New York City! The legendary Arthur Mercante!

In THIS corner, the capable challenger, wearing black trunks. He has an excellent record of 46 wins, four defeats and a draw with 29 knockouts. Weighing in at one hundred eleven and half, from Guadalajara, Mexico, the number one flyweight challenger in the world!!!!!! El Alacran! Efren Torres!!!!!!!!!!!!

And in THIS corner the defending champion. Wearing white with black trim. With a record of 46 wins, 10 defeats and two draws with twenty nine wins by way of knockout! Weighing one eleven and three-quarters, from Bankok, Thailand the undisputed flyweight champion of the world!!!!!!!!! Chartchai Chionoi!!!!!!!!!

Tale of the Tape-Champion Chionoi has a two inch height advantage and similar reach advantage. They are both in their mid-twenties.

How did they get here? Challenger El Alacran Torres is coming off a win over ranked banatamweight Jose Medel. Champion Chionoi is in the third defense of the linear flyweight title which he won from Walter McGowan a year before.

How good was this fight? Ring Magazine named in the 20th best title fight of all-time in 1996. It is one of the all-time great bloodbaths and it is even when it is finally stopped. FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS!