Just two or three years earlier, an absolute dream match, but now a meeting of ex-champions, if not has-beens; two once proud warriors, both legendary, both now seemingly on their way to retirement. Had they clashed in 1979, they could have sold-out virtually any stadium in Latin America or the U.S. At that time they were among the most feared fighters in all of boxing, icons revered in their respective home nations of Panama and Mexico.