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What a difference eight years can make. Eight years ago we didn’t know that there was still frozen water on Mars or that it was even a strong possibility that life once existed on that now-dead planet. Eight years ago only a few had heard of a phenomenon known today as “global warming” and scarcely anyone outside of the royal Saudi family had even heard the name, Osama Bin Laden. Shoot, eight years ago, unless you lived in Texas, “W” was just the letter between “V” and “X” in the English alphabet.
Eight years is really not that long of a time in the great scheme of things; but a lot can happen over a span of eight years in the real world as well as in the ring world. For example, in 1998, there were three stars at Welterweight who had the boxing public reminiscing about the glory days of the early ‘80’s and frothing at the mouth for them to clash. These three undefeated scrapping young men were none other than the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Champion, Oscar De La Hoya, the IBF Welterweight Titlist who was into the fifth year of his reign, Felix Trinidad, and the much talked about WBA Welterweight Titlist, Ike “Bazooka” Quartey. Just as Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran had to collide, so did these three young champions; and the boxing world held it’s breath as they did. [details]
Eight years is really not that long of a time in the great scheme of things; but a lot can happen over a span of eight years in the real world as well as in the ring world. For example, in 1998, there were three stars at Welterweight who had the boxing public reminiscing about the glory days of the early ‘80’s and frothing at the mouth for them to clash. These three undefeated scrapping young men were none other than the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Champion, Oscar De La Hoya, the IBF Welterweight Titlist who was into the fifth year of his reign, Felix Trinidad, and the much talked about WBA Welterweight Titlist, Ike “Bazooka” Quartey. Just as Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran had to collide, so did these three young champions; and the boxing world held it’s breath as they did. [details]