Attention boxing fans: check out another great story written by Ted Sares about underrated boxer Mickey Goodwin.
He struggled with his weight in the early 1980s, but was still labeled the “best natural puncher” Emanuel Steward had ever worked with. Short and compact and the owner of a paralyzing left hook, he was one of my personal favorites. For those of us who followed him for the short period between 1977-1984 and 1993-1994, he will forever remain in our memory banks as one of the most devastating hookers to ever enter a ring. Indeed, he had what amounted to a cult-like following of aficionados and I was one of them.