Great Champions
Great Champions
Germany. Of those years I recall he afro hair, the disco music, and the high school where I played football, my favorite sport at the time. I played football, I didn ' t box, I remember my team remained undefeated for two years. Later we returned to the United States, where a couple of years later, and after making a few small minor jobs, I enrolled in the Richmond Academy, before joining the Army. I loved being in the military. Life was hard, you had to exert yourself, get up early, marching, cleaning, work out, it was hard but I liked it. I owe much to my time in the Army. At that stage I was assigned to Germany, and it was there that I joined the boxing team, in which I was the only heavyweight. I started training with the team, I was taught the fundamentals of the blows, positions, feints, everything, and I soon began to fight. In that year in Germany participated in 13 fights, and got a record of 13 wins and 0 losses, it was a great time, I loved to box and many people liked to come to see me fight, I learned a lot, and I had some great coaches, some of them were to me as a father figure. I paid attention to whatever they said to me, I even followed his advice outside the ring, that ' s one of the things that made me champion.
B. I.: What has been your toughest fight?
RM: My toughest fight was against Bert Cooper, it was a 12 round fight which left me a lot of sequels: I suffered a cut lip, multiple face injuries, I broke some jaw veins which made me bleed profusely... I have a picture in my mind after the fight in which Bert Cooper and I were at the infirmary healing the wounds of the bout. I remember two days after the match I had to go to hospital because I felt very weak and I had a fever, I was also very dehydrated not only because of the fight but also the hard preparation I had undertaken, a strategy which consisted in trying to return 3 blows per each one received, and I had to work hard in order to carry it out. It