I found the date. I hadn't discovered Roberto Duran or his greatness yet. I was just becoming a boxing fan, at age 13. I was often bullied then and would be over the next few years, so I took out my helpless frustration by watching boxing matches and (sort of) yelling for blood. In fact, I'd say things like "Beat that guy, beat him good," and my mom would say "Are you bloodthirsty." I didn't think I was going over the line saying what I did. Watching boxing matches got this blind man through a lot of tough years. I was a fan from around 1977 until the year DAZN raised its prices beyond the reach of people like me. That was it for me with modern boxing. I still bring up the old matches like this one on YouTube. I bless every person who puts up a fight, no matter how old, no matter in what condition as long as I can understand what the announcer is saying.--Don
I was at this fight and at the time I was training for Golden Gloves at the old Erie's Boxing Center on west 7th street Erie, Pa.. Duran came to Erie prior to the fight and he trained at EBC,. I was there watching him train and work out. He brought all his sparing partners with him and they were all Light Heavies or Hevi's. Even though they wore protective head gear and cups, he destroyed them to the point that he didn't have anyone left to spar with. A few of us, were offered the opportunity to spar with him but we all declined. His workouts were brutal and I've never seen anyone as fast on the speed bag or skip rope. Lou had zero chance of winning but hung in there on his bicycle until the 14th. At which point Duran caught up with him and finished him off. Tjere was a lot of booing going on during the fight because Lou rode his bike the whole night, hence there wasn't tons of action. Asked in later years if Duran remembered the fight and he said he had no recollection of it. Lou looked like 5 miles of bad road after the fight.