Name: Lucien Rodriguez
European Heavyweight Champion (Twice) 1977 & 1981-84
- Fought Larry Holmes for Heavyweight Title (L 12).
- Defeated Alfredo Evangelista (W 12).
- Defeated Jean Pierre Coopman (W 12).
- Defeated Lorenzo Zanon (W 8).
- Rodriguez played himself in the French feature movie "Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres".
- won 39 (KO 21) + lost 12 (KO 5) + drawn 1 = 52
rounds boxed 349 : KO% 40.38
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndhVPqYusU
Favorite Book: "The Art of Boxing" by Georges Carpentier
"I'm from Casablanca, Morocco, so one of my boyhood idols is the great Moroccan middleweight, Marcel Cerdan. And I also read everything I can find on Georges Carpentier, the great French fighter who fought Dempsey and Tunney." |
