Everything unseen from the fight Maravilla Martínez waited his whole life and didn’t last a round

The bell was heard Sergio Martinez cornered John Tehran Against the ropes, he managed to wink to ringside into a hold and then knocked him out. Ready. The fight in the place that Marvelous dreamed, he playgroundIt didn’t last a round. You would have to watch the video for just over a minute to discover an attempt by the Colombian. “The coup existed” count, before I ask clarionone of the judges who had the fight, the legendary Hugo Vainesmann.

The evening had everything the others have and their differences as well. Nobody paid for the ticket, because they didn’t go on sale: the capacity was completed with the invitations. The main excuse was first premier From “Ringo. Glory and Death”, a series that Star Plus premieres on March 24, but which has anticipated its first chapter for those who have attended the Luna Park. The setting for the preview of the first episode is interesting, with the actor who plays Oscar Bonavena in the biographical series, Girolamo Bosiaplaying the role live loaded into the ring and merging the images on the giant screen.

After the first chapter, the spectators who were not “from the box”, but actors, actresses and producers from the world of entertainment, left Luna Park and there the evening was like the others. The audience watching boxing is silent. You can hear shots in the ring or in the chicken coop. There are those who scream, those who give advice they deem appropriate, but it’s incredible how silence leaves room for those contractions of boxers when they take a punch, something similar to that bellow of tennis players when they make an effort in a breath.

At least at the Luna Park it is possible to leave the place to go to the bathroom, come back and find it together with the personal effects that marked the territory in physiological absence. Perhaps it responds to the logic of the show itself: two people exchanging blows but after the last round embrace each other.

The three fights in the background were attractive. In the bantamweight category, the Cuban and the rookie Damiano Arce batted on runs a Sebastiano Castillo (7-2-1) by unanimous decision. Then Brian Arregui (8-2-0, 1 KO) defeated Matthias Galucci (8-3-0) by sixth-round TKO e Andrew the little car bland (15-2-0, 8 KOs.) prevailed They graduate Dynamite Sciuto (11-1-0, 7 KOs.) and finished with his undefeated. At that point they arrived punctually at the appointed time, three hours had passed between the fights and the installment of the series.

The wait for Maravilla and its staging with a playback of owinexponent of urban music, in an allegorical clip on the boxer, fueled the climate. What everyone present expected was about to happen. and that’s why the audience lit up. Before retirement or after his return, Martínez enjoys a charisma that resonates with people, pay or not the entrance. Parakeet Perez, Juanse, evagatic, Gabriel Rolon and celebrities from television followed the evening with a special energy, equal to or greater than the number of boxers in attendance.

Hymns through and with the singular locution – an affected accent of Latin dubbing – with which each fight was presented, the Chino Maidan -in his role as promoter- he settled down to see how the evening, like the parcels, ended with a bow. Seconds out and bell for the first of 10 rounds agreed for Maravilla’s first fight in Argentina since his return to activity.

The first hand into which Tehran, which was already on the ropes, was enough to end the wait. Maravilla measured him first with a right jab and with a thin left, he left him on the ground. At the Luna Park for the only time he had a reaction from the audience in unison. An orgasmic release as Martínez celebrated and his rival couldn’t get up. Everything was applause, even if he didn’t complete the first round and the remaining nine were archived.

About 30 years ago, for a fleeting show of Jerry Lee Lewis the public thought they were burning the Great Rex to ashes. But, it has been said, the boxer is a peaceful spectator and also very orderly to evacuate the stadium and then leave: in a handful of minutes, Corrientes and Bouchard no longer even had the light. What are rock assistants left to do when they leave the same place?

“I will not stop until the world title”

knock out completed, Maravilla clarified what his return is all about. “I’ll tell you what: don’t make yourself believe that 48 years is a long time: they can’t make you believe you’re done, because I’m not done. From now to the World Cup, I won’t stop, motherfuckin’, was the first thing he said, after they officially gave him the win, the sixth since his return: four in Spain, one in the United States and that of Tuesday.

“Thanks to that insanity (that I have), God bless it, I’m above the ring and training with 18 or 20 year olds even peers. I want to train hard and hard because I want to fight for the World Cup. Life is about challenging big things. I don’t like to say: tomorrow I will get up to feed the pigeons. No, let me get up to take the reins,” he told her, still naked for the cameras that broadcast the fight.

“Half an hour ago I was not the same person I am now, much less after a knock out in the first round”, Maravilla closed the same evening in which they presented the Bonavena series and in which he seems to be writing one of his fictions.