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Tomorrow marks 42 years of the fight between Antonio Gomez and Shozo Saijo

I close my eyes and in a hard memory exercise, I seem to have fixed in my retinal the image of the Korakuen Gym (known as Metropolitan Gym) a sort of Tokyo boxing temple in the 70’s, filled to the top of expectant fans, a very small group of Venezuelan, no more than 14 or 15 - I also see Antonio Gomez when he throws his first blow, a long explosive and accurate jab that lands in the chin of the featherweight champion Shozo Saijo (o Saijyo), whose head shudders and wobbles as if he were a string puppet.

 

Venezuela fue una fiesta

Cierro los ojos y en un nada fácil ejercicio de memoria me parece tener congelada en la retina la imagen del Gimnasio Korakuen (conocido también como Metropolitan Gym), suerte de templo boxístico del Tokio de los años 70, repleto hasta el tope de expectantes espectadores, un minúsculo grupito de venezolanos entre ellos -no más de doce o quince- y veo también a Antonio Gómez cuando lanza, agazapado, su primer golpe, un largo, explosivo y certero jab que impacta en la barbilla al rey mundial de los plumas Shozo Saijo (o Saijyo), cuya cabeza se estremece y bambolea como si de un muñeco de cuerda se tratase.

 

 

 

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