Yea vargas was a special dude I was just watching an old rerun of Tuesday night fights and they had vargas on there, it was against Romallis Ellis who was an olympic Bronze medalist and title challenger with a record of 24-3-17 KOs...Vargas facing dude in like his 10th fight
and got him out in two
sadly most folks remember him only by those losses to Tito and ODH, and the shane mosley/Mayorga mess...but he was a top notch dude
Dude gave him hell(Tito/ODH) till he got his soul taken both times...Prime vargas was done for,those fights took years off dude and he wasnt even in his late 20s yet..
and was probably embarrassed so he got on that super tough guy shyt said like you said, and got away from his boxing (Which he was pretty good at for a power puncher)