Romeo Anaya vs. Rogelio Lara
vs. Enrique Pinder II
vs. Arnold Taylor I (highlights)
Fights on this DVD:
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Romeo Anaya, born 5 April, 1946, in Cahuare, Mexico, is a Mexican bantamweight boxer who from 20
January 1973 to 3 November 1973 was the World Boxing Association (WBA) World Bantamweight
Champion.
On 3 November 1973, Arnold Taylor met WBA World Bantamweight Champion Anaya in a match refereed
by Stanley Christodoulou in Johannesburg in South Africa. The 14 round fight is considered by many to be
one of boxing's classic fights. One South African sportswriter called it "the blooodiest fight in South African
boxing history". Taylor suffered a cut and was knocked down once in round five and three times in round
eight (the WBA has since adopted a rule where a fighter is automatically declared a knockout loser if he or
she is knocked down three times in the same round). Nevertheless, Taylor also cut the champion, and, in
round fourteen, he connected with a right hand to Anaya's jaw, sending him to the floor. Feeling that this
was his moment to become a world champion, Taylor screamed to his trainers: "He's gone!" from a neutral
corner. It took Anaya two minutes to get up, and Taylor won the WBA world Bantamweight title.
During his boxing career, which ran from 1967 to 1980, Anaya held the WBA Bantamweight Championship
of the World in 1973 and the Bantamweight Championship of Mexico in 1971.[1] His boxing record was won
46 (KO 38) and lost 19 (KO 14) and drew 1.[2]