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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It is hard to evaluate Audley Harrison either as a fighter or an individual. I don’t know the man, I shook hands with him once and I worked for his website for a while but I don’t really know him. As a fighter he has failed to live up to his claims or supposed potential. Not even the most vehement Audley supporter – and there are precious few of those remaining – could claim otherwise. Now, at the grand old age of 37, with a humiliating loss to Martin Rogan in his last appearance in front of a booing crowd, Harrison has sunk to digging up camp stories from 2006 in a bid to tempt David Haye into a marking-time fight. Aside from saying “Big Issue” on a street corner or entering the Big Brother house I don’t believe the once favourite son of British Boxing can fall further. 
