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Exclusive Interview by “Bad” Brad Berkwitt (Copyrighted Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime 2002)
Before I get into this interview, I want to tell you how, an interview that has eluded me for quite some time, came to be. Back in November 2000, I did an interview for the boxing website www.fightnews.com with former IBF Super Middleweight Champion Murray Sutherland who campaigned as Light Heavyweight before he dropped down to Super Middleweight. In that interview, I mentioned that Yaqui Lopez was also a boxer from Murray’s era who always came to fight, and if anyone had contact with Lopez, it would be honor for me to do an interview with him.
Fast Forward——June 2001, I receive an email from a wonderful young lady who read the Murray Sutherland interview when she found it by searching the internet when she typed in Yaqui’s name, which pulled up my interview with Sutherland. She was doing this for a tenth grade project she was working on. Well, that project happened to be on her Uncle who turned out to be Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez. The young lady turned out to be Ashley Lopez, Yaqui’s very sweet niece.
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The Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez story is a fascinating one which starts with his birth under a bull ring in the Plaza deToros San Pedro in Zacatecas, Mexico. He was raised for 14 years underneath the seats in an adobe garage of a famous Bullring in Zacatecas.
Young Lopez had dreams of becoming a Matador, but those dreams were shattered when in his teens, he got a shot at fighting a bull. After about four or five passes, the bull drove his horn into his ankle which shattered it. With that shattered ankle came shattered dreams of becoming a bullfighter.
Lopez always continued to dream about bigger and better things. Dreams turned to reality many years later when he met his soon to be father-in-law and manager, Jack Cruz. Cruz would take a young Lopez on a journey into boxing that few boxers ever will have a chance to experience.
It was a journey that saw Lopez challenge for the Light Heavyweight Title four times and the Crusierweight Title once. In three of those fights, many felt that Lopez should have won the belt against John Conteh and Victor Galindez (twice). All three of those bouts were lost by 15 round decisions and many as I said, felt the decisions should have gone to Lopez.
In his other attempt at a Light Heavyweight Title, he faced then Champion Matthew Saad Muhammad. The fight would go on to be the 1980 “Fight of the Year” by Ring Magazine. The first half of the fight was dominated by Lopez and in round eight (also named “Round of the Year”), Lopez pinned Saad Muhammad in a corner landing 20 consecutive blows. Muhammad somehow got out of that round, and stopped Lopez in the 14th round. If the fight would have been staged today, Lopez would have won by a TKO in the eighth round because they stop fights much sooner now, then back in his day.
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In fact, one old guy took us to an old Filipino healer. We had to take a fifth of whiskey to him, and he drank some combined with some other stuff he mixed, and spit it on Yaqui's leg while rubbing it with some type of powder.
Such was my total admiration that I loaded my 1962 “Philippine Contemporary Literature” with Joaquin: “May Day Eve” and “The Legend of the Virgin's Jewels,” the first scene of “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” (which I saw first staged within the
Flash Elorde (pictured above) was the greatest ever Filipino fighter not named Pacquiao. He beat world featherweight champion Sandy Saddler in a non-title fight in 1956. He was ahead on points against Saddler in the rematch when he lost on a cut.
Aside from the high-stakes, world-saving, and even adrenaline-inducing work she's done in a mental and virtual capacity from her wheelchair, the character has also used her extensive training in Eskrima—a Filipino martial art requiring a disciplined
A fan of Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, Fichter cites a Filipino dish of goat cooked in bile as the weirdest thing he's ever put into his mouth. “It looks horrible—like scrambled green eggs,” he says of the dish,
Ambeth Ocampo « Traveler on Foot
Former National Historical Institute chair Ambeth R. Ocampo shares to us how he deals with writer’s block, his pet peeves, his favorite hangout, being a stand-up comic, and things that only a few people know about the most popular and accessible Filipino historian of our generation.
Traveler on Foot: Is Ambeth a nickname?
Ambeth: AMBETH is a nickname that I have used all my life and the name I have used professionally thus I am better known under this than my baptismal name . I am seriously considering a change of name so my passport will carry Ambeth Ocampo.
Traveler on Foot: Your followers admire you for your writings. We all know that you were influenced by great Filipino historians (Teodoro Agoncillo, Carmen Guererro-Nakpil and Nick Joaquin) and were taught by equally great teachers like Prof. Doreen Fernandez. However, what we do not know is how your interest in history all started. Can you please tell us about your childhood? What were your favorite toys?
Ambeth: I don’t remember much of my childhood toys but I grew up in a house with books. My father was a reader and the deal was that I would never be refused a book I wanted. If I asked for a toy he could say no. I was always interested in history and that became stronger when I had BAD teachers, maybe I became a historian because I didn’t like the way I was taught. Or maybe I became a historian because of the Folger Shakespeare we used in high school that had the play on the left side of the book and all the most obscure notes on the right.
Traveler on Foot: Why did you decide to enter the Benedictine Abbey in Mendiola? Can you describe your life as Dom Ignacio Ma. Ocampo, OSB? Why did you leave the Abbey?
Ambeth: Benedictine life was the bedrock of my life, I’d think it was to balance my Jesuit upbringing (hence the name Ignacio Ma. for Ignatius Loyola). Monastic life appealed to me because of the history of the order that was a light in the dark ages, monks copying out and annotating manuscripts was a very strong image, but most importantly it was a READING order, we read all the time and when you were too lazy to read they read to us during meals and during the Divine Office. (for a glimpse into my life there see Mabini’s Ghost) it was the happiest and most productive time of my life and I often entertain thoughts of returning but I do have to finish all the work I have to do outside the cloister.
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