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Title: Bobby Chacon vs Rafael "Bazooka" Limon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Papaleo, Ken
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Pacoima's Bobby Chacon (left) never ducked an opponent or a punch. One of the gutsiest Mexican-American champs, the junior lightweight fought the best--including Danny "Little Red" Lopez. Ruben Olivares, and Alexis Arguello; the finale of Chacon's epic four-fight set with Rafael "Bazooka" Limon (shown here during their third fight) is remembered as one of the great brawls in boxing history. Like Quarry, Chacon absorbed much punishment in the ring and suffers from damage to the brain. Photo dated: March 22, 1980.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049077
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Boxing.
CARL0000052860
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17291
Subject: Chacon, Bobby
Limon, Rafael
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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