Barry McGuigan was expected to defeat Steve Cruz with ease in 1986, but the Irishman was not accustomed to fighting in the baking heat of the desert
By Paul Gibson for The Balls of Wrath, part of the Guardian Sport Network
Everything was a little off on that igneous day in Las Vegas. The location, the climate, the opponent, Barry McGuigan himself: nothing felt quite right. Belfast and London had hosted the vast majority of McGuigan’s glory nights, but after his historic victory over the legendary Eusebio Pedroza, the newly crowned featherweight champion of the world understandably craved the prestige and universal recognition that meaningful triumphs on US soil guaranteed.
By the 1980s, a late night under the bright lights of Las Vegas Boulevard was top of every boxer’s bucket list and the Clones Cyclone was no different. His reality, however, a smouldering summer evening under a merciless sun in a Nevada desert carpark, was more nightmarish incubus than fulfilling dream.
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