Bruce Seldon was beating Tony Tucker for the vacant WBA fight. Terry Norris was disqualified for the second junior middleweight title fight in a row with Luis Santana. Chavez was beating Giovanni Parisi of Italy. Trinidad knocked out a legitimate welterweight contender, Roger Turner, in the second round and the result wound up on the cutting-room floor of the New York Daily News, my employers at the time. Trinidad has been escaping overshadows ever since, though his father, trainer and manager, Don Felix Sr., has twice tried to run from King, twice been talked into staying loyal.
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Tito is somewhat of an acquired taste. There is nothing dazzling about him, no combinations that make you think of Sugar Shane Mosley or Roy Jones Jr., his only two rivals now for best fighter in the world. His punches are hard and accurate, not fancy. He has been troubled by movement. He gets knocked down.