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The Trinidad versus Mayorga fight was a boxing event pitting former world champions Felix Tito Trinidad and Ricardo Mayorga. The fight took place on October 2, 2004, under the promotion of Don King, at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
The fight involved no world titles, but that did not prevent it from being a large boxing event: With Bernard Hopkins's knockout of Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones Jr.'s knockout defeat weeks before, there were no more immediate big fights in the future, and both boxers had impressive knockout records.
The behind the scenes storylines involving this fight helped build up fan interest too: Mayorga, nicknamed "El Matador" ("The Killer"), had been active for the two previous years, settling for a technical draw and a knockout win (in a rematch) against Andrew Lewis , then defeating Vernon Forrest twice before losing to Cory Spinks , all in world title fights. He had also won one fight at the Middleweight division. Mayorga, who prides himself in living a "wild style" type of life, had been arrested by the Nicaraguan government one month before the fight, stemming from charges of raping a woman. During the weight-in the day before the fight, Mayorga, feeling taunted by Trinidad's fans, responded by grabbing his private parts towards those fans. For the Trinidad fight, Mayorga dyed his hair redRed is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. Red light has a wavelength of roughly 700 nm. Oxygenated blood is red due to the presence of hemoglobin. Red light is the first to be absorbed by sea water, so that many fish. Asked why he did that, he answered that he dyed his hair just because he felt like it.
Trinidad, for his part, had not been active for two years. He lost his motivation, according to him, after Hopkins refused to give him a rematch of their September 28September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). There are 94 days remaining. Events 480 BC The battle of Salamis is fought between the Persian and Greek navies exact date uncertain 48 BC Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King, 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap bout, in which Hopkins unified the WBA, WBC, and IBFInternational Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of several boxing organisations. The IBF''s first world champion was cruiserweight Marvin Camel. International Basketball Federation (FIBA) governs basketball worldwide. titles by knocking Trinidad out in twelve rounds. After a four round knockout win against Hassine Charifi in four rounds in 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, Trinidad retired. Felix Trinidad reportedly reached a weight of 200 pounds during his retirement.
Because of those cirmscunstances, many experts predicted that this fight would be like the fight between Joe LouisJoseph Louis Barrow ( May 13, 1914 April 12, 1981), better known in the boxing world as Joe Louis and nicknamed The Brown Bomber was a native of Lexington, Alabama who became World Heavyweight Champion. The son of a cotton picker and a homemaker, Louis be and Rocky Marciano or the one between Larry Holmes and Muhammad Ali: A former great who had been out of the ring for a considerable amount of time taking on an opponent who was, on the other hand, very good, but not to be considered as good as the retired champion ever was, therefore, many predicted Trinidad's doom at the hands of a man like Mayorga, who had won a world title and proven himself against some of the best boxers available while Trinidad was away from boxing.
The fight was telecast on HBO's Pay Per View, and commented by Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant. The fact it was held in New York guaranteed that many fans from both countries, specially Puerto Ricans, would come to cheer for their boxer.