Talk:Nicolino Locche

Skills

Along with the noted excellent spatial awareness, Locche also had terrific blocking skills. Also, it's not said, though it may be implied, but a lot of his ability to dodge shots so well came from good head-movement; that's a point that needs to be noted. And, as his record suggests, Locche wasn't skilled as a puncher. Even though he countered well, he didn't amass many knockouts - even against low-level competition - because he was feather-fisted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 165.190.100.44 (talk) 02:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

Section removed: The Master Piece of "El Intocable"

I removed the entire section titled The Master Piece of "El Intocable", as it is not encyclopedic and violates NPOV. Some of this information can probably be readded to the article in the "Boxing career" section if it is well sourced.

A lot of this content is also likely plagiarized/copied directly from the Spanish language sources.

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On December 12, 1968, he reached the peak of his sporting career and became world champion by defeating Takeshi Fuji in Tokyo, Japan. That fight with Fuji was a work of art. The Japanese, then champion, faced an extremely uncomfortable opponent such as the Argentine, owner of a style based on a prodigious waist.

It was night and raining heavily in Japan's capital. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, it was also raining in a good part of Argentina and the morning work activity was practically paralyzed in the main cities so that people could follow by radio the alternatives of the fight that would take place in the Kuramae Sumo stadium. In the absence of satellite transmissions – they would only begin in 1969 – the only means to follow the alternatives of combat was radio. The popular Buenos Aires radio station LS5 Radio Rivadavia had sent to Tokyo the team made up of Osvaldo Caffarelli as rapporteur, Ernesto Cherquis Bialo as commentator and Jorge "Cacho" Fontana as commercial announcer. The morning before the fight, Locche surprised Cacho Fontana in the hotel bar by reviewing a script for the end of the broadcast, for a possible victory for him, and another in case he lost. "Give me that," Locche said, taking the piece of paper that alluded to the eventual defeat and, tearing it into a thousand pieces, clarified: "You're not going to need this one." Such was the confidence he had in himself, that that night he would surprise his companions: after a massage session, he fell peacefully asleep on a stretcher in the stadium's locker room while the preliminary fights were taking place in the ring. None of those who were part of his small entourage could believe it: coach Francisco "Paco" Bermudez, promoter Juan Carlos "Tito" Lectoure, sparring partner Juan Aguilar and Luna Park announcer Roberto Fiorentino.

It was a true exhibition, with nine rounds in which the Mendoza native dodged everything his opponent threw, while hitting fairly. A full Locche who showed that, trained, he could do anything he wanted in the ring: have fun as he did in Buenos Aires, or fight as he won against a world championship. Dejected and psychologically destroyed, with eye injuries, the Hawaiian-born Japanese man did not come out in the tenth round and left the title in the hands of his rival, who became Argentina's third world champion. Nick Pope, the same referee who had proclaimed flyweight winner Horacio Accavallo as world champion two years earlier, raised his right hand to Locche. And, just as it had happened with flyweights Pascual Pérez (in 1954 against Yoshio Shirai) and Horacio Accavallo (in 1966 against Katsugoshi Takayama), Nicolino's consecration also occurred in Tokyo. "Sensei, Sensei!" (master in Japanese), chanted the Japanese audience, surrendered and admired before such a boxing lecture by that colossus of the ring.

- IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 12:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

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