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By the time he won the IBF lightweight championship in 1993, Freddie Pendleton already had 17 losses — the kiss of death for potential opponents who had a future to protect. No manager or promoter in boxing wanted to match his world-ranked hotshot with Pendleton, whose superb skills and lethal power belied his pockmarked record. What was the upside?
In an in-depth, wide-reaching interview, the 21-year ring veteran explains why he was routinely ducked by the biggest names in the sport — Julio Cesar Chavez and Shane Mosley among them — but somehow wound up fighting 78 times and nine world title bouts in three weight divisions against the likes of Pernell Whitaker, Ricky Hatton and Felix Trinidad.
Pendleton — always his own man — is currently compiling his memoirs for a pull-no-punches autobiography guaranteed to be jam-packed with fabulous stories like those he told on this week’s Ringside Boxing Show. You’re gonna love this interview.
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Dennis Taylor is host of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor-publisher ofย www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy,” currently on Amazon’s Bestsellers list.
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