Remember him? Van Horn for a short time put boxing in Kentucky on the map, gaining the IBF Middleweight title and having a host of fights that gained national attention. Back in the days when networks showed boxing matches for free, Van Horn fought on NBC, often in his home state, in fights that generated attention across the sports world.
Van Horn won the championship twice and finished his career with a record. But he is often forgotten as a Kentucky sports legend.
Here is a video of one of his fights Read Now. They were like or [record] fighters, but they were men and they had that man strength. A lot of my fights, afterwards I was black and blue. My face would swell right up. I train kids today at the local gym, and I tell them all the time that they have to put the hard work in, that if they work as hard as they can, they will become the type of fighter people talk about, as having so much gas in the tank and the ability to fight hard.
You will eventually meet someone who is more skilful than you, so you have to have the gas to be able to get that fight inside you. Q: You speak very clearly, which is not the case with too many fighters who had a lot of fights, as you had with over 50 pro outings.
A lot of times you hear the brain damage. But I graduated college, so with that, people have the perception that you must be halfway intelligent to start with. But I boxed and stayed on my toes. I was in great shape and on the top of my game. We worked in camp on how to beat him. Q: You then met your bogeyman, I guess you could say, in Gianfranco Rosi , who out-pointed you twice?
In the very first round, with his very first punch, he knocked me down. He caught me with a perfect shot. I was totally out. My dad tapped me on the shoulder and it was only then that I came to! I was on autopilot the whole way through. So then, I was so desperate to fight the guy again. I was saying I was gonna kill him. To have gone all rounds just on auto-pilot, I badly wanted to get him again. Back at the time of the first fight, I was walking around at or The limit is of course, and to have sweated down from was so hard.
I was much bigger by this time, at age I had no fat on me, so losing weight was tough. And it was so hot in that auditorium in Italy.
The fight was dead even after seven-rounds, but after that I lost every round. And then, six low-key fights later, Van Horn was retired — at age Still a baby in fighting terms. But did Van Horn have the million dollars? Take a guess if you like. Retiring at 30 , having been stopped only by the rampaging Barkley, Van Horn must today take a look at that old issue of Ring Magazine and wonder what went wrong. He was no hype job, but Darrin Van Horn was not to become a superstar.
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