2-time world champion “El Feroz” Fernando Vargas poses during the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame announcement of its 2020 class of inductees today at the Fernando Vargas Fighting Foundation in Las Vegas.
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Vargas inducted as a heavyweight. I would like to see an exhibition between Hamed and Vargas.
He looks good and healthy..looks like hes been doing some powerlifting….hopefully enjoying retirement. He had a great career cut shot by back issues. Big wins vs ike quartey and dominated winky Wright.. and a fight of the decade with Tito.
Dominated Winky? I think you watched a different fight
He’s a cool guy, very friendly. I met him on a few occasions at a boxing gym in Los Angeles. Real Mexican Warrior, not like Canelo who rather box than fight. He took a massive beating at the hands of Trinidad. After the Trinidad fight he was never close to the same but still had enough juice to give Oscar a decent fight.
That was a tit for tat fight that is rarely seen today. It was anyone’s fight until El Ferroz got caught. No shame in his game. He always came to fight.
Arturo I beg to differ on him being a nice guy. I had the opposite experience when I tried talking to him. He was very exciting to watch though.
Moved up far too quickly and it cost him and us as fans. Saw him spar at La Colonia when he was 15 or 16 and knew he was special then and told everybody I knew about him. But they threw him to the wolves and it ended up cutting his career short.
He needed another year or 2 for Tito fight and even then low blows were ridiculous and definitely played a roll in his defeat. Think if they had moved him slower he would’ve been better off but at same time they probably figured it was best to keep him in gym because his crew and his mentality was not conducive to avoiding trouble.
But he was someone who could’ve been an all time great if moved with more caution. The balls to the wall approach cost his career big time.
He looks like a bearded, tanned Peter Griffin.
I think the fight against Winky Wright should have been a wakeup call about how green Vargas was, it was ignored, just they avoid Wright for a possible rematch, by then he was just 22 with 17-0. If Vargas and his team have waited just one more year, he fight against Trinidad most likely would have never happened, and instead a better version of Vargas could have been in the ring agaisnt Oscar De LaHoya, possibly the biggest fight ever between two Mexican-American with Vargas still undefeated and not damaged good instead. A wrong decision changed drastically the course of Vargas boxing career