Johnny Famechon v Fighting Harada II 6 January 1970 Tokyo,Japan

Johnny Famechon (ジョニー・ファメション) 126 lbs 51-4-6 vs Fighting Harada (ファイティング原田) 124¾ lbs 54-5-0 for the WBC World Featherweight Title.
Metropolitan Gym, Tokyo, Japan
Famechon wins by KO at 1:09 in Round 14 of 15
Referee: Nick Pope 61-58
Judge: Hiroyuki Tezaki 60-59
Judge: Ernie Christensen 62-54
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[@vernonwhite4660]

John great fight Im over 80 now cannot believe I had not seen this fight 54 years ago

[@billwhite9703]

Wow! I can't believe virtually no-one has watched this. This is the epitome of the power of the left jab.

[@sickbra23]

Fammo was all class.beautiful to watch when he let his hands go

[@lindsaylamont8292]

Actually met him after his accident.fantastic man.thanks john

[@ElCondor2Pasa]

日本ボクシング界のレジェンド、ファイティング原田氏のラストファイトですね。

[@CamiloHPNunes]

Its very unique the way Jhohnny held his gloves up leaving the right side of his face and chin almost unprotected

[@skinrule1]

Amazing how clear the video is compared to other video's from that era. That old Japanese technology

[@UntouchableBreakdowns]

Japan for some reason are just on other worldly levels of video quality. They had Hd before it was even invented 🤣

[@joshuabelmonte12]

I wonder if whomever gave this or put it out on the internet has the master tape and took care of it? Only way that can explain the crispness of the footage. Most dpnt take care of their videos correctly

[@jesusapolicarpio-delacruz3851]

Very true and very clear!! That"s Nippon Technolovy!! That's why studied and learned their language!!!

[@patrickverona387]

Good fight. I will say this. If championship fights had been 12 rounds back then, Harada would have been boxings first three division champion as he was clearly ahead after 12 rounds. It shows what a difference the extra 3 rounds really does make.

[@alfarabi73]

He got jobbed in one of the worst decisions I've seen in their first fight. So he should've been a three division champion regardless. He wouldn't have been the "first" though.

[@californiaswimteam]

Armstrong

[@patrickverona3098]

@@alfarabi73 agreed

[@patrickverona3098]

@@californiaswimteam you are absolutely correct. Cannot believe I forgot about him.

[@pattheslut]

@@alfarabi73 Had the super-flyweight and super-bantamweight divisions existed then,Harada would have been champ in four different weight divisions.

[@LimitedNewsCorp]

Famechon was fabulous

[@mollylemonk]

Fancy being in there with Harada... Tough Gear

[@pattheslut]

Harada was a real buzzsaw.

[@RRRRapify]

Famechon looked so sharp, those uppercuts during clinches were sneaky and effective. There should have been a knockdown on the 5th round for famechon and 10th for harada.

[@munezawa1981]

This fighting is so COOOOOOL.

[@Noah-pc6wq]

It's really annoying that the only Harada fights that are in colour and have good quality are the ones where he loses.

[@imranmahmud1640]

Harada was built like a tank

[@stevejones9483]

Good on ya Fammo.

[@russellcampbell9198]

Loved Johnny when I was a kid. Great sense of humour and proportion and one of the great defensive boxers.

[@MM-bl3bd]

負けても男らしいですね原田会長‥。

[@brettmartin8920]

U have the best foot work famo an it showed in that fight knocked him clean through the ropes u r the champion with out a dought that's why u r in the hall of fame ,famo

[@williamboney7371]

Great Man,Great Champ.RIP Champ.

[@ericktellez7632]

Harada came out swinging from round 1

[@user-mp2mh1qw4s]

私は、 フェザー級のファイティング原田 が好きです。 一発必殺のパンチがありますから。 しかし、 この試合の原田は前回の誤審 への憤怒のままに、 ｢ぶっ倒してやる｣ と殺気が勝っており、 防御に気が回りませんでした。 フェザー級のパンチですから、 それでは一発で終わってしまいます。 勿体ない試合でした。

[@pakapolchotkiatkij2252]

Play by play announcer : Yukihasa Tsukuda (Fuji TV) Analyst : Kuniharu Hayashi (former OPBF Bantamweight Champion) and Sadao Yaoita (former OPBF and Japanese Flyweight champion) - 0:10 What's the name of ring announcer ?

[@unclevizzy]

herad kept smothering his own shot by going in too close

[@tulumize]

The austrailian keeps holding useing his elbow and and ribs and getting the other fighter frustraited Pretty funny how the green trunks falls out of the ring almost like WWF Well worth watching , thanks for uploading.

[@emeraldodin9037]

Old school class fighter jf

[@edwardjj8052]

Famechon fights so dirty

[@throwitinthebinUnt]

the epitome of short shorts

[@josevicentepereiraneto8910]

Se harada chegasse ao fim da luta provavelmente dariam a Vitória a êle roubariam como fizeram com Eder Jofre

[@warrentaylor6230]

Well Fammo won the boxing, but who won the wrestling? The ref?

[@russell192]

2:54 4:04 Harada is fast...

[@gilneybraz3813]

Harada sempre usando expedientes , muito clinche , cabeçadas , truncando a luta. Famechon com boxe superior.

[@Macoby42]

Usted no sabe de boxeo famechon recurre a golpes ilegales en la nuca, no es un gran defensivo, corre más que el diablo, lo que es un rival incómodo por su estilo de correr y amarrarse, harada si es una leyenda.

[@garrison968]

I think its the only time Harada was stopped.

[@hectorsalcido4106]

Nope, he was knocked out earlier in his career by Mexico's Jose Medel.

[@pattheslut]

@@hectorsalcido4106 Jose Medel was best-known for his two fights against Eder Jofre,both of them absolute wars.

[@Gertzy41]

Harada was too small to go to featherweight 😢😢😢

[@randquadrozzi5850]

Harada had legs like tree trunks

[@vancewilson9413]

You gotta be fkn kidding me

[@Renee2580]

harada was past his prime here

[@markmay184]

ST LOUIS FINEST yeah maybe, it wasn’t unknown for him to fade after the 10th round when up against a better fighter - his lose (when he was in his prime) to Lionel Rose is a case in point

[@alfarabi73]

@@markmay184 Famechon was not a "better fighter." What lunacy.

[@markmay184]

Of course he was the better fighter, he won. As was Lionel Rose (the better fighter against Harada) when he beat him as well, you clown 🤡

[@alfarabi73]

@@markmay184 I l wrote a lengthy reply to your troll post, but my browser ate it. So to be a bit more succinct: First, at best Harada and Famechon drew their two matches. Did you even watch the first fight? It is considered one of the worst boxing decisions of all-time, as Famechon went down three or four times and was dominated throughout. The decision was so putrid that Famechon's own countrymen in the stadium lustily booed it, and the local press decried it in outrage. If you think Famechon "won" that fight, then there is nothing much more needs to be said. Second, Famechon was the much bigger man, so it's difficult to argue that he was clearly the better fighter, even if he had clearly won both of their matches - which he emphatically did not. Harada was a natural flyweight - where he was virtually unbeatable, and where I would take him against any flyweight who ever lived in a hypothetical head-to-head. His only "loss" was his second match with Kingpatch - an all-time great at flyweight - where Kingpatch was battered and which most viewers, and the Western press, saw Kingpetch losing. (See a pattern here? Decisions in Asia over half a century ago are not the best barometer of who won the fights.) So no, Harada didn't have issues when he fought "better" fighters; he was inconsistent when he fought bigger fighters. He beat the likes of Jofre - who was greater than any he fought and even greater than himself - and he lost to not exactly luminaries like Esparza. Or perhaps you think Maxim was greater than Robinson? Third, even if someone wins cleanly, when they are both at their natural weights, that does not mean the winner is automatically the better fighter. Boxing, like all-combat sports, is about match-ups. Some styles work better against others. Heck, I once beat a national TKD champion in a practice sparring session. Was I better than him? Laugh. I was an unorthodox fighter, and he wasn't familiar with that style.

[@pattheslut]

@@alfarabi73 Jofre was considered P4P the best fighter in the world when Harada beat him, and as a boy,I vaguely remember the outrage in Australia when the first fight was judged a draw, in fact,in one of the Aussie newspapers the headline read "MR.PEP,YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING",a reference to referee Willie Pep.

[@unclevizzy]

lol why they allow him to drink alcohol in the corner?

[@kostakagiaros8116]

Vale

[@davesmith6624]

Ruben Olivares would have pounded both these fighters on the same afternoon.

[@Renee2580]

Dave Smith that's a fact zarate would to

[@paulfamechon]

Olivares wouldn’t have got a glove on Famechon

[@glenncook56]

That's a big call Harada was the only fighter to beat the great Eder Jofre and he did it twice. As for Fammo a very under rated fighter Olivares would have had his work cut out tagging him.

[@GG-kc6ie]

Nah, Olivares was too busy getting his ass flogged by Herrera, during that time Fammo kept winning world titles.

[@marknorris1381]

I doubt it. Olivares was nowhere near as effective as a featherweight as he was bantam. He held both featherweight belts at different times (for five minutes) but lost each belt on his first defence. And the same applies to the comment about Zarate. Exposed when he moved up to Super Bantam. If you are looking for a name from Mexico that would have done the job on all of them at Featherweight (Zarate & Olivares included) try Salvador Sanchez. If anything if Sanchez and Olivares had met in the ring Olivares would have had his face rearranged, he and Zarate would have fared the worst against Sanchez, Sanchez loved taking apart knockout speciailsts refer the terrible beatings he handed to Danny Lopez and Wilfredo Gomez, Danny having already handed Olivares a KO defeat, and Gomez having handed Zarate a bad KO defeat.

[@ryoiguchi2710]

試合後に物を投げるって、マナーがなってないな・・・

[@joh331]

本当に失礼で悔しい事ですね

[@DavidSmith-oh3re]

Ruben Olivares would have knocked out both of these fighters.

[@marknorris1381]

He would have had to land on Famechon, which was highly unlikely. Famechon's strength was his uncanny defense. Olivares would have been flat out landing any power punches on him, no one barely did. He was never stopped in 67 pro fights, Saldivar couldn't do the job on him, their fight went 15, and Saldivar would be more highly rated at featherweight than Olivares. Look up lists of the greatest featherweights, you'll usually find Saldivar on any top ten greatest, Olivares won't be in there at that weight.

[@kufujitsu]

Olivares fought all comers, but it's not as if he was knocking everybody out - have a good look at his record. Famechon had good recovery skills & a chin on him to go with his defensive ability - never been stopped as Mark Norris said - Olivares might have knocked Famechon down, but I doubt he would have knocked him out.

[@mirriulahmirriulah1319]

But he didn't

[@tonycostanzo4276]

Rose beat Harada in his prime

[@johnmerton3630]

Might have been good boxers but lacked any power in their punches- was the same in the Rose fight. 15 rounds and not a mark on either boxer.

[@dennisdobin8640]

Wrong about Rose,he had a left hook that was lethal.

[@markmay184]

Exactly, these guys knew how box - the sweet science 🥊

[@8888rionts]

イカサマ試合だな（笑）レフェリーがクソだ

[@user-pj6jf3tc2o]

第一戦はな。

[@user-qj6wy2zr7n]

@@user-pj6jf3tc2o 文句なしのレジェンドとは言え、レフェリーとしてはズブの素人ですよねｗこういっちゃなんですけど地元判定はよくある事、プロのレフェリーならあり得ない凡ミスのロングカウントが非難されるべき。