2-20-1999 Felix 'Tito' Trinidad vs Pernell Whitaker

I grew up watching all these fights on free TV. It's nice to relive the memories. God be with you , Southpaw Sweet Pea.

The intro Buffer made for pernell was beautiful! R. i. p.

I've said this before....this is Pernell's One and only real loss... All his other losses were fixed against him..past his prime and too small for a gunslinger like Trinidad R.I.P Sweet Pea Such a privilege to grow up in your era...even got to see you live in NYC when you fought McGirt Spectacular Defence

Thanks to all people that put the date of the events on the videos it helps put it in historical order

Pernell. Great fighter GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL BROTHER.

RIP Pernell you were an inspiration to many boxers who wanted to know the Sweet Science of a lefty God bless

R.i.p sweet p one of the best ever

I'm a huge Pernell fan! one of the greatest fighters ever!!! RIP Sir!!!!!

Sweet memories of sweepea R.I.P. Even though he lost this fight he put on a very very good show and let Tito knows that he wasn't going quitely! Thanks for the memories Pernell,you were great!!! Your brilliant performance against the then unbeaten Julio Chavez will always be a real boxing treat to all boxing fans!

me encanta el boxeo de toda la vida...gracias por ofrecernos este espectáculo

I attended this fight. This was Whitaker's first true loss. Over the hill, and fighting his personal demons, he brought FURY to a young champ. RIP Pete. Thanks for giving me a lifetime memory that night. I remember your walk from the ring when you stopped and shouted out to your fans before going into the underpass. I remember it like it was yesterday. I'll never forget that moment. Thank you.

Once a fighter always a fighter...keep your head and hands up bro...R.I.P.

R.I.P Mr. Whitaker 🙌☝🙏

Pernell fought EVERYONE, its insane!

It's so hard for me to accept that Pernell is no longer with us. Very hard to believe. RIP Pernell Whitaker, you were a great fighter and you have fans who will never forget you.

R.I.P Brother

Shocked and saddened by the passing of one of the greats ever... Pernell Whitaker.

Tito loved the lights 🇵🇷

Rest In Peace Champ you'll always be remembered Pernell "Sweetpea" Withaker .

RIP young man, you were one of the absolute best.

If I only had all the money I spent on PPV fights back, I would never be able to replace the memories of th 1990's fights. Viva!

.....I ACTUALLY feel like I lost a family member.....RIP champ

R.I.P Champ you are one of the greatest to ever lace them up.👊🙏.

RIP Champ!You will be greatly missed!Thanks for memories🙏

RIP champ......A true 757 Legend

R.I P Sweet Pea. Favorite Boxer 🙏

Rip Pernell Sweet Pea Whitaker he was past his prime when this fight happen

Pernell Sweat pea Whitaker pound for pound top 5 ever, came off the streets and went 12 with one of the most feared fighters of the era

Rip champ love you Whitaker favorite fighter of all time

This fights were good. Not like today no body wants to fight no body. RIP 1990 flash

Whitaker was 35 here, but he still showed a lot of flashes. But I think Tito's height and reach, and underrated hand speed would always be problematic for Sweet Pea. Whitaker's best days were actually BELOW 147 lbs. At 135 and 140, he enjoyed his best moments. Would have been a close fight between these 2 at any other time a 147.

Pernell had to change his style for this fight being past his peak at 35 and still did well. Not to mention he was the smaller fighter looking like he was fighting someone in a higher weight class. I give Pernell his due. Good career and went out pretty well.

Tito Trinidad was to strong and tall at 146 -154 I don’t think he ever lost at that weight class

de mis favoritos boxeadores entre los mejores de la historia, Gran Tito Trinidad 👍🏻✌🏻👏🏻

One of the greatest of all time. You proved your talent and heart years before the Trinidad fight. REST IN POWER AND PARADISE PERNELL "SWEET PEA" WHITAKER

So much respect for Mr. Whittaker RIP NEVER FORGET YOU!

Who else is watching old Sweet Pea fights tonight?

Sweet pea was much funner to watch than mayweather. He was one brave warior.

Mis respeto tito desde panama fuiste uno de los mejores,buena persona le callaste la boca a muchos

My all time favorite fighter, Sweet Pea!

Tito had one of the meanest left hooks in the game. 👊

Truly one of the best boxers ever to put the Gloves on. Bless

I was there, good memories. RIP Champ

RIP sweet pea what a great fighter.

Descanse en paz Pernell Whitaker . Magnifico boxeador, uno de los mejores campeones que dio el boxeo.

14 1/2 years for PW after winning Gold Medal in LA Olympic Games , RIP/DEP Tito beat three Gold medal winners in his career; PW, ODLH and DR, amazing Champion from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

RIP Mr. Sweet Pea, you are one of all time best.

Long live the defensive wizard

R.I.P to one of the greatest Pernell! 🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥇🥇🥇🥇🎖🎖🎖🎖🏆🏆

Wow when I hear buffer introduce Tito it gives me chills. epic.

Whitaker was a true gladiator he fought EVERYONE!!! Didn't hand pick no fight!!! Dudes got talent and Balls!!!

RIP Sweet Pea! Truly one of the greatest boxers ever! And the best defense for sure. Insane defense!

R.I.P. Whitaker 🥊🌠🙏💐

Sweet Pea one of the most underrated boxers of all time

I notice how Tito kept stepping on Pernnells feet. Nothing cheap just interesting clash of sytles

The Great Sweet Pee Whitaker was the BEAST, in his hay day!

That wasn't no blow Pernell. At 35, he took the younger knockout artist the distance!!! And make no mistake Tito was GOING FOR THE KNOCKOUT!!! At 35, Sweet Pea more than HELD HIS OWN!!! LOVE YOU CHAMP...NO ONE STILL NEVER REALLY BEAT YOU, AGE JUST CAUGHT UP TO YOU. NO FIGHTER WILL ESCAPE THE RAVAGES OF TIME!!! Rest up Champ, and thanks for giving us a beautiful ride on the Boxing Road!!!

The creator of a crafty boxer, Good pivot movement , Foot work was amazing💯💪

I cheered for Tito back then. Great fight.

I love Tito but Whitaker in his prime would of gave him way more trouble 💯💯

In my opinion, this is the only fight that Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker ever lost in his boxing career. PERIOD!

here is a 35 year old lightweight fighting a prime 26 year old explosive & one of the hardest hitting welterweights in history. For Pernell to fight this well showed just how great of a fighter he was. He had no superior punching power, yet he would stay in the pocket with much bigger fighters. He just was doing a little too much going against sledgehammer tito.

Tito el mejor Campeón de Puerto Rico, enfrentó a muchos boxeadores de elite en sus mejores momentos.

This will always be one of my favorite pernell fights. Its the only fight where he was in with someone better, and he therefore got to display 100% of his heart. Tito was bigger, younger, faster, with a deadly punch AND was in his prime, and pernell went right after him from the start , then fought with a broken jaw for half the fight, and even then, he was still swinging for the fences trying to win. He took his beating like a man, just like all the greats before him did. And tito still couldnt knock him out. He knocked out middleweights. He knocked out yory boy campos, fernando vargas, and william joppy. De la hoya stayed on his bicycle for all 12 rounds to avoid titos power. And heres pernell, willingly engaging in a firefight with one of the deadliest punchers of that era, and he still finished. Hats off to sweet pea. R.i.p., pete.

Trindad will be inducted into the hall of fame this year ! YAY! Boricua!

I love how Larry Merchant and George Foreman go at it. Sometimes the stuff that comes out of George's mouth is ridiculous. And sometimes Larry sounds pompous. They worked great together.

So much respect for Whitaker for how he hung in during this fight. We never saw what an incredibly tough SOB he was before because nobody could touch him, but he showed it this night, and gave prime Tito some real competition.

Whittaker was fighting dirty the entire after tito dropped sweet pea in the 2nd round. Whittaker didn't want no part of tito's power shots. Whittaker basically took pages out of chavez 's Sr cheat book. Every time Whittaker knelt down or sat down it should of been a knock down. And the time tito went down ( it was Whittaker jumping over a off balanced tito to try and land a body shot and push tito down. But Whittaker body punch actually landed on tito's leg. I like Whittaker though , and he did give tito a good challenging fight. Tito did make a lot of mistakes in this fight. IF tito's corner would of actually pointed out the corrections needing to be made then I believe tito may have been about to get a knockout. JUST my opinion though. Anyways ... This was a good fight to watch.

Tito en ese peso era imparable. Boricua Power! Sin embargo, me gustaba mucho ver pelear a whitaker en el peak de su carrera.

The best defensive and slickest boxer i ever had the pleasure to watch. It was a crime he wasn't appreciated compared to blood and guts guys (moneymakers etc) RIP

Isn't it something how a YOUNG, PRIME Fernando Vargas got knocked out by Trinidad and an old, junkie Whitaker made it to the final bell? You have to give Pernell credit for that...

Props to Whitaker for his skills...but bottom line is that he was one of the shadiest, sneaky, low-blow, dirty fighters that ever got in the ring

One of the Greatest🙏🏽 RIP and prayers to your family

One thing I'm know about this dude Parnell Withaker .....dude never ducked anyone. He fought who ever was in front of him. And TiTo........what can we say, Boxers Feard Trinidad back then..I remember it like if it was yesterday

My favorite American fighter and Puerto Rican fighter

R.I.P. Sweet Pea! VA's own!!

Now that is à fight worth paying for wat happen To boxing u hardly see fights like this

I love that adjustment Tito made in round 2, Pernell wasn't moving his head so he threw a straight right upstairs, downstairs then threw it right down the middle...boom!

There are simply SO many brilliant and remarkable souls who walked the path of the professional exponent of the Sweet Science that I would not even know where to start regarding my respect and praise thereof. Max respect to them, one and all.

For all the people that thinks Trinidad would have beaten a prime Whitaker, consider this. Whitaker fought this fight the only way he could consider his reflexes was gone, his footwork was gone, his handspeed a couple steps slower. He stood right in front of Trinidad for twelve rounds, showed that he had a warriors heart, and refused to give in despite his best skills: his movement, defense and reflexes was gone. In Whitakers prime he would have used his great footwork, and make trinidad follow him, avoiding punches with his relexes and counter time after time. It would have looked like Winky vs Trinidad. There is a reason Trinidad never faced Whitaker around 1994 or 1995 or even 1997. Because he still had very good footwork, handspeed, reflexes and was not a sitting duck like in 1999. Or do really people thnik that Trinidad would land 55% of his punches against a prime Whitaker ?? That he would stand still and fight Trinidad for 12 rounds without movement ?? Unlike Roy Jones, around the same age, with his skills and speed, eroded, Whitaker fought his heart out and showed he was a warrior, with a great chin and refused to give in, despite beeing knocked down fighting with a broken jaw. How people can say that he is so boring, and then praise a fighter like Mayweather for his style is pathetic. Whitaker fought with a much higher pace in his fights, then Mayweather ever did, throwing betweeen 700-1000 punches in his fights.Fought a prime Oscar when he was past his prime at 33, not like the 34 year old Oscar that Floyd fought in 2007 that only had stamina for 6-7 rounds. Whitaker was in his prime one of the pound for pound very best, best fighter of the 90s for sure. Had better quality of opponnents then Roy or any other fighter for that matter. Didnt avoid anyone, fought them all. Yes, he could get dropped sometimes in his fight, but thats natural when you throw as many punches as him and is as offensive as he was in his prime. Age and a coke habit was the only thing that beat him, if you dony count lousy judges and wbc Jose Suliman and his "love" for Whitaker and his style. Even if you dont like his style, or him as person, he still should be very high on everybodys pound for pound list. No fighter i have ever seen could handle pressure fighters as good as Whitaker could in his prime, allways fighting bigger and stronger fighters, despite lack of power. He found a way to beat them for 12 rounds.

Pernell was excellent in staying in the line of fire and making other fighters miss while he landed his shots

Trinidad was a beast! Nobody beat Parnell like this. Nevertheless, this is the way I wanted to see Pernell fight early and throughout his career.

Boricua!!! I like pernell because of his skills, RIP its very Hard to knock pernell Down mad love to both fighters

Stone cold CLASSIC fight. I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often in discussions of, say, the best fights of the past 20-30-40 years . . .

Rest In Peace Champ.

Sweat pea thanks for training me for awhile i love you and i want to say that you are my favorite fighter in the world i will miss you champ

Thank You Pernell, I am a Nureorican from the Bronx, you are a great champion, I have the utmost respect for you brother, always enjpyed your fights, no dancing just boxing, RIP, we'll miss you.

If Sweet Pea was a little younger and hadn't come of a suspension for cocaine use, he'd box circles around Tito. Good fight though. I think Floyd saw how elicit drug use could adversely affect reflexes so that's why abstained from using them.

RIP...IMO this was his only true loss.

i was down in north carolina a couple summers ago when i heard about him passing away .. it tripped me out cause we were just down the coast from it .. still trips me out

That was the hardest punch I've ever seen Whitaker take from any of his opponents, that uppercut with 7 seconds left in round 8 was the deadliest punch in the hold fight, & I believe that was the punch that had broken Whitaker's jaw because of the way it sounded & the way Whitaker's head snapped back after it landed & you could literally hear the crack of that uppercut on Whitaker's jaw & watch how he reacted when round 8 was over by going to Trinidad's corner when the 8th round was over, lucky for Whitaker he didn't have 20 more seconds left in round 8 or he would have gotten KO by Trinidad cause he was out on his feet.

I am doing it watching in memory of thid grear boxer

This was the first time Whitaker was actually beaten in a fight in the ring and on the score cards, and it took a much bigger and younger fighter; not to mention, a great fighter in Trinidad. Pete fought him like a champ despite recognizing midway that he was clearly outmatched in strength and age.

Such great fighters in this era. Days of the Sweet Science are long gone.

One of Lou Duvas henchman.... Pernell was a beast!!!

TITO TRINIDAD ES UNO DE LOS MEJORES BOXEADORES DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS

Great fight two great champs wow.

Totally Informative ! !

Michael Buffer introducing Felix 'Tito' Trinidad is the stuff of legends

Tito was a hell of a fighter...extreme power in both hands, legs always moving, great physical condition...