Article first appeared at Roundtable Boxing

It is 43 years since Bobby Chacon won the WBC Super-Featherweight title against arch rival, Rafael Limon. Their fourth meeting proved the most poignant as it came in the same year Chacon had contemplated suicide following the suicide of his wife Valerie, who had wanted Chacon to quit boxing.

Back in the Winter of 1982, boxing, the great harborer of lost souls, raconteurs and those scrambling from past or place had yet another of her famous stories to tell.

It wasn’t the silver screen redemption arc of Rocky Balboa in the third instalment  of his Rocky franchise which enjoyed a long run at the cinema and its title track Eye of the Tiger had clung to US Billboard number 1 until the end of the summer too. In the charts of Limon’s Mexico the youngster Luis Miguel was riding high, with Directo al corazon, broadly translated as Right to the Heart.

The the story of Bobby Chacon, the tumult of his life, particularly during this period are as infamous and incredible as anything conjured for the big screen.  

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