Lionel Rose vs Fighting Harada - Highlights (LEGENDARY CLASSIC)
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February 27th 1968. 2 legends of 2 different continents clashed for the Undisputed World Bantamweight Championship; the Australian challenger Lionel Rose and the Japanese champion Masashiko “Fighting” Harada defending his WBA, WBC and The Ring Bantamweight Titles.
This fight was held in Harada’s hometown of Tokyo, Japan and scored based on the 5-point must system by the referee and 2 judges.
Prefight records; Rose 27(8)-1, Harada 50(19)-3.
In May 1965, Harada garnered the WBA, WBC and The Ring Bantamweight Titles via SD15 over the “Golden Bantam” Eder Jofre to become Japan’s first ever Undisputed World Bantamweight Champion.
Note: Harada was the inaugural WBA Flyweight Champion and former The Ring Flyweight Champion. He won those titles by defeating Thai legend Pone Kingpetch via KO11 in October 1962.
Between November 1965 and July 1967, he successfully defended his titles 4 times and for his 5th defense he was up against Rose who was of the Gunditjmara indigenous tribe.
Entering his first world title opportunity, the 19 year old Rose had defeated top oppositions such as Kamara Diop, Rocky Gattellari & Ray Perez (2x) while the 24 year old Harada held notable wins over Edmundo Esparza, Hiroyuki Ebihara, Jose Medel, Alan Rudkin, Pone Kingpetch, Katsutoshi Aoki, Bernardo Caraballo & Eder Jofre (2x).
It was an intense, high speed chess match where the champion continuously pressed the action while the challenger moved and countered on his back foot for the most part to produce a close and competitive fight.
From rounds 1 to 8, both fighters were tactically competitive at near equal measure and arguably won 4 rounds apiece.
In round 9, Rose scored a flash knockdown with a right cross and slipped to the canvas just after flooring Harada.
In round 10, Harada’s head was rocked back with a sharp jab.
In round 11, Rose was hurt thrice with body punches but came back later in the round to connect with a right hook that knocked Harada off balance.
In round 12, Harada connected with a sharp right hand but lost his footing just as he was about to follow up thus allowing Rose to get in position to defend himself with about 10 seconds left to the bell.
In round 14, Rose wobbled Harada with an overhand right and later moved him backwards with a stiff jab.
In the final round, Harada stormed into action just after the bell sounded (as he did in the opening round) to rally for a knockout as he sensed he was behind on points resulting in an explosive exchange of body blows by both fighters. They were visibly exhausted from the ferocious pace as they made it to the final bell to the thunderous applause of the appreciative 10,000 Japanese fans gathered in Nippon Budokan to support their hometown hero.
After 45 minutes of tremendous tactical action, referee Ko Toyama and judges Ken Morita & Hiroyuki Tezaki scored the bout 72-71, 72-70 & 72-69 in favor of Rose who became the new Undisputed World Bantamweight Champion and the first indigenous Australian to win a world title.
Upon his return to Australia with his newfound glory and a samurai sword, Rose was greeted by more than 100,000 of his fellow countrymen outside of Melbourne’s Town Hall where he was hailed as a national hero.
Later in the year, Rose became the first indigenous Australian to be named Australian of the Year.
Enjoy this highlight of a LEGENDARY CLASSIC and remember to to SUBSCRIBE for boxing goodness! - Sport
I remember sitting in the front seat of the AP6 Valiant listening to this fight on the wireless with Dad. Good times.
Harada.. BONSAI!! MY FAVORITE
Is a monster
clean beautiful boxing, textbook loose punching displayed. Something that todays fighters are often missing.
Lionel rose was an underrated weapon
What a fight!
I noticed this about Harrada when I watched here the second fight against Famechon that he had. the an had no defense. No wonder he retured in his late 20
s, and is still thanifully alive today.
Lionel rose was my uncle
my great uncle
Can you make more videos on more modern fights? The video quality makes such a big difference in being able to see so many details of the fight that you might miss on the poorer quality video types 😊
My next upload will be and it's coming up soon! Thanks Adam!
@@jeffjacksonboxing you’re welcome and thank you to you too 🙂
Thanks Jeff for throwing up this one, would very much appreciate it if you could do something involving another Aussie - Jeff 'the hitman' Harding and Dennis Andries
Indeed. Love those fights. The Harding vs Andries is one of the greatest trilogies and so many people have never seen it!
Fight #1 WBC 175 pound title on the line, Andries first defense, in Atlantic City FOTY contender - behind on the cards Harding gets the 12th round stoppage. Fight #2... Andries regains the WBC 175 title with Harding losing the belt and his 'O' in his 3rd defense by 7th round KO - in Melbourne and another great fight! After 6 rounds it was 3 rounds each on 1 judge card, 4-2 Hardings way on the other 2 cards!
in fight #3 this time it was Andries 3rd defense of the WBC 175 title in England (so that's 3 title fights in 3 different countries!!!) and another absolute ripper of a fight. Harding becomes a 2 time WBC 175 pound champion this time by Majority Decision 114-114,115-114 & 115-113!!!!!
And hardly anyone knows about this trilogy!
So come on Jeff Jackson - and thank you to my compatriot Gary KingFrog for making the request - bring some shine on this most deserving of trilogies.
And to Jeff The Hitman Harding in general, a truly great Aussie fighter. Went on to lose the belt (after 18months out of the ring) in a competitive UD loss to HOF legend Mike The Body Snatcher McCallum in once more his 3rd defense of the WBC 175pound title - in Hardings last fight ending his career 2 time WBC light heavy champ 23-2 w17ko's
thanks for the li’l wrap,@@raxmanbox 🙏🙏🙏💯👏 you’re right not many people remember how close that trilogy was, especially with the 3 judges in the 3rd joint, with a draw, 1 & 2 points difference.
‘Hitty’ came back here an even bigger legend than before he left for England, years later Jeff’s memory is still sharp as a razor. 🤣 If an old fan sees him & says “I remember seeing you at so n so Vs such n such & Jeff will ask them something like “what colour shorts did I wear “ or “who’s the referee”? He’s a great storyteller too.!!
@JeffJackson, once again can you please do us subscribers a “personal request” for the Jeff Hitman Harding Vs Dennis Andries trilogy 🙏💯 thanking you in advance for this small consideration 💯🙏
You're welcome Gary!
I have been thinking of making highlights of their trilogy for some time now. Perhaps, I am looking for the best quality I can find. Hopefully soon enough!
@@jeffjacksonboxing Fantastic! Thanks mate! One of my great regrets was throwing out the old VHS tape collection. Between myself and my old man we had loads of the 80s &90s fights - a great era for Aussie Boxing - along with Jeff Harding there was Barry Michael, and of course Jeff Fenech - but there were also some almost good enough contenders who at a local level gave great fights but just weren't at the highest level - Troy Waters who pops up in a lot of greatest round compilations for his title challenge vs Terry Norris, and his older brother Guy who lost to Andries before #3 of the harding trilogy! Their dysfunctional family is one of the great tragic stories of OZ sport as oldest brother Heavyweight Dean Waters murdered their coach and fathers wife on instruction from father Cec Waters. Dean beat the charge at trial when it was revealed their childhood was so horrible Dean had no choice but to do the murder... but I digress