A Boxer’s Courage: Al Seeger
Reader Steven Dean posted a comment about the July 19 Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Al Seeger fight that was shown on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. The comment was so good that it deserved a post of its own.
Boxers so often, as Mr. Dean explains, take fights at an incredibly short notice. Seeger took the Gamboa fight on just five day’s notice, a ridiculous prospect given Gamboa’s unorthodox and incredibly difficult style. Below is Mr. Dean’s post and here is a link to Al Seeger’s career record. Thanks for reading and we hope to see Seeger back in the ring sometime soon.
Tags: Al Seeger, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, Yuriorkis GamboaWhat most commentators regarding this bout fail to mention is that Mr. Seeger had a maximum 3-5 day notice of substitution for this bout. Mr. Seeger had absolutely no time to prepare mentally or physically for the boxing style that a Gamboa employs, or to study the videos. Again, his was a last minute sub situation when the scheduled boxer, Jose Rojas, backed out of the engagement.
In my mind this makes Al Seeger even more courageous than he is, and has always been throughout his boxing career. This kid, maybe not a household name to some boxing fans, is a phenomenal athlete, and a world class boxer. His reach, his poetry of movement and his record of defeat by knockout of the majority of his world-class opponents speaks volumes for his talents.
Go back and review Al Seeger, both as an amateur, and as a professional, and one would be unable to find anything to disqualify him from world-class status. The kid is a wonder, and a beauty to behold. The results of this bout for Al Seeger, while disappointing, are short-term, but I guarantee that he has learned a heck of a lot from the experience.
Al never talks trash like many other boxers, is humble, a great man, and overall, a boxing professional, like the former greats. I cannot recall another like him. I have no doubt that the boxing world has not heard the last of this young fantastic boxer. Mr. Gamboa may have won this fight, but even in the results of this night’s engagement, Al Seeger is still a champ.
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