Hypothetical Match-Up Game

[harrygreb]

you got it

[Goodnight, Irene]

Poor Pryor can't take a trick. He loses a fairly wide decision to Ross, any day of the week.

Main Event: Azumah Nelson vs. Joel Casamayor. 12 Rounds at Lightweight.

Undercard: Ray Mancini & Jose Luis Castillo, in another 135lb. contest, lock horns over 12 rounds.

[harrygreb]

nelson is nonplussed for a couple of rounds against the tricky joel, but by the third he decides he has too much sheer power for him and wings in a left that stuns casamayor azumah follows up with a right to the chest and another left ends the argument. nelson KO 3

mancini and castillo go at it for 5 round of intense trading but ray dents the defences of castillo with a great flurry that breaks castillo's resolve. he comes out for the 6th but ray can sense he has little left and the ref agrees with mancini.
mancini TKO 6

pryor chances his arm against underated thug al tribuani - welter 12 rounds

[allworld80]

Wildly entertaining, foul filled affair that sees neither fighter willing to clinch. Fought in a phone booth, and Pryor eventually gets his man. Pryor TKO 11.

Nassem Hamed decides to skip the Baby Faced Assassin, and instead takes on Erik Morales @ 126

[My2Sense]

Nassem Hamed decides to skip the Baby Faced Assassin, and instead take on Erik Morales @ 126

It gets him nowhere. Morales shuts him down and outboxes him all the same, and wins a decision.


Next up: Henry Armstrong vs. Carmen Basilio.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Wow. Just wow. Armstrong strong-arms his way to a decision in a match which features everything under the sun. Rounds one-through-four seemed like a continuous highlight reel, much to the appreciation of the 25,000+ strong crowd. Armstrong wins a competitive UD.

Main Event: 15 rounds between Gene Tunney & Joe Walcott. The boxing brain non-pareil against the elaborate hot-foot shuffler...

Undercard: Jeff Fenech & Joel Casamayor over twelve rounds at Super-Bantamweight.

[harrygreb]

fenech has never been better in this bout against ring wizard casamayor and deserves the decision. not allowing joel to pepper him with jabs by moving intelligently and not staying in front, jeff uses quick attacks to unsettle his foe. it was always going to be close but fenech makes it on a narrow MD

gene finds joe a tricky customer and is behind early on but starts to work well and by the 8th has the beating of walcott on the inside. walcott steps it up himself and opens a cut on the bridge of tunneys nose. by the 15th its even but tunneys face is a mess. the doctor takes a look and allows the final round to commence but walcott finds a powerful left right combo that floors the exhausted marine. he gets up but the referee has seen enough and leads gene back to his corner.

walcott TKO 15

middleweight contest;
bobo olsen v stanley ketchell

[Goodnight, Irene]

Ketchel flattens Olson in the ninth with a herculean right hand. Olson is up at eight, but is not the same fighter. He eventually succumbs to a Ketchel barrage in the thirteenth, behind on all cards.

12 Rounds at LW --- "Vita" DeJesus vs. "Chico" Corrales...

[Datsue]

Ketchel flattens Olson in the ninth with a herculean right hand. Olson is up at eight, but is not the same fighter. He eventually succumbs to a Ketchel barrage in the thirteenth, behind on all cards.

12 Rounds at LW --- "Vita" DeJesus vs. "Chico" Corrales...

DeJesus climbs off the canvas to outbox Chico, pasting him with counters & flurries; ref stops a swollen bloody Corrales -- protesting bitterly, natch -- in the tenth.

Vinny Pazienza vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, 15 rounds, lightweight.

[AngryGoon38]

Ketchel flattens Olson in the ninth with a herculean right hand. Olson is up at eight, but is not the same fighter. He eventually succumbs to a Ketchel barrage in the thirteenth, behind on all cards.

12 Rounds at LW --- "Vita" DeJesus vs. "Chico" Corrales...

DeJesus climbs off the canvas to outbox Chico, pasting him with counters & flurries; ref stops a swollen bloody Corrales -- protesting bitterly, natch -- in the tenth.

Vinny Pazienza vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, 15 rounds, lightweight.

Chavez by mercifull ref stoppage in round 11.
Quite competitive for a few rounds but Chavez finds the range and brutalizes Paz from rd's 4-10.
Ref waves it off just before the midway point of the following Round.Too much blood and swelling to bear.

Now,About Walcott-Tunney,as was answered but probably misunderstood as being Jersey Joe vs Tunney,as oppossed to the "Barbados Demon" version of much earlier years.I Think that this would be mostly a clinic in favor of Tunney.
The 5-1 Walcott decks Tunney for a flash Kd in round 1 but cant find much range from that point on and Tunney cruises his way to a lopsided decision win.

Next up:

Danny Romero vs Lupe Pintor @ 118 for 15 rd's

Ernie Shavers(77) vs Danny Williams(02) for 12 rounds

David Tua(97) vs Randy "Tex" Cobb(80) for 10 rounds

[harrygreb]

lupe pintor KO'S romero after a frustrating fight where he doesnt find his rhythm until round 8. the KO comes as danny appears to stick his head into pintors face. the ref seeing nothing wrong waves the fight to continue and lupe duly ends the contest with a scintillating short right hand that few in the crowd, and certainly not romero, see.

pintor KO 9

shavers has trouble with slick movers but williams does not belong in that category and meets the canvas for a prolonged length of time in round 3

shavers KO 3

tua at his best overpowers tex but takes 11 rounds to finish him in this one.

tua TKO 11

WELTERWEIGHT BATTLE OF THE COBRAS -
BOTH MEN IN SSSSSSSUPER SHAPE....

TOMMY HEARNS (the motor city cobra) V DONALD CURRY (the lone star cobra)

[allworld80]

Prime for prime, Hearns by a spectacular 6th round KO, in a fight he was losing! That long right bomb finds the chin of Curry not a moment too soon, as the fight was going Curry's way in a hurry. Hearns KO6.

Kostya Tszyu vs Roberto Duran @ 140. Be gentle.

[Goodnight, Irene]

No, I was indeed matching the Heavyweight Walcott against Tunney.

[HomicideHenry]

Sorry but Duran takes it and wins on a kayo around the 10th round, possibly before it.


Rinty Monagahn vs Benny Lynch, 15 rounds

[allworld80]

Monaghan takes a narrow, tactical decison. Lynch, trailing on all cards late, starts to press the action, and saves the last few rounds, but can't come all the way back. Monaghan UD.

A HW double dip

Joe Frazier vs Rocky Marciano

Jim Braddock vs Earnie Shavers

[AngryGoon38]

Monaghan takes a narrow, tactical decison. Lynch, trailing on all cards late, starts to press the action, and saves the last few rounds, but can't come all the way back. Monaghan UD.

A HW double dip

Joe Frazier vs Rocky Marciano

Jim Braddock vs Earnie Shavers

I think that Frazier wins by SD.Styles make fights.Rocky decks em early but doesnt quite have the ideal gameplan and cant do what needs to be done in time.Doesnt really start figuring out Frazier till the last two rounds and by then,Joe has built too much of a lead and holds on for the relatively narrow points win.

I think that Rocky would likely win a rematch by UD though.He has the Style of frazier for figured out and obviously there is a Strong Vengeance factor involved.Rocky is the type to really thrive on that type of energy.

Imo,Braddock and Shavers would look like a Draw but one or the other would get the narrow nod,depending on the style preference of the judges.I'll say most likely,Prime Shavers wins on favorable aggression by SD.Technically could go either way though.


Wilfredo Gomez vs Marco Antonio Barrera @ 122

Pipino Cuevas vs Miguel Cotto

Carlos Palomino vs Antonio Margarito

8)

[harrygreb]

gomez wins a tight decision over barrera. both men have their moments but gomez's KD of MAB in the last round wins it for him.

gomez UD

cuevas dominates for most of the fight and cotto is marked up but then pipino loses concentration and miguel seizes the opportunity. from total dominance cuevas finds himself on the floor and counted out in round 11.

cotto KO 11

palomino - slightly overated - is winning the fight when toni finds his best form and floors his man in round 10. palomino rises at 9 still leggy and only just makes it to the bell. next round palomino moves away nicely and margarito's moment is gone. palomino boxes well for the remainder of the contest and takes a UD

palomino UD

this duel is at lightheavy;

bob fitzsimmons v mickey walker

[Goodnight, Irene]

Bloody, messy fight. In the end, Walker doesn't come out for the final round. I absolutely love, love, love Mickey (I rank him as my third favourite fighter of all-time), but I certainly have a healthy respect for Fitzsimmons. Speaking of which...

Main Event: Dempsey vs. Fitzsimmons --- 15 rounds, prime-to-prime.

Undercard: 15 Rounds at Lightweight --- Esteban DeJesus & Ray Mancini.

[Djanders]

Bloody, messy fight. In the end, Walker doesn't come out for the final round. I absolutely love, love, love Mickey (I rank him as my third favourite fighter of all-time), but I certainly have a healthy respect for Fitzsimmons. Speaking of which...

Main Event: Dempsey vs. Fitzsimmons --- 15 rounds, prime-to-prime.

Undercard: 15 Rounds at Lightweight --- Esteban DeJesus & Ray Mancini.

Undercard: A good fight! Esteban De Jesus defeats Ray Mancini by a close but unanimous 15 round decision.

Main Event: After a terrific battle, Jack Dempsey defeats Bob Fitzsimmons by a knockout in round 8.

In their primes, fighting under modern rules, 12 rounds: Jack Johnson vs. Rocky Marciano.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Marciano survives two bad cuts (one inside the mouth) & a lot of frustration as Johnson clinches the shit out of him to ultimately KO his man in the fourteenth round. A Suzie-Q not unlike the one which so spectacularly felled Walcott in '52 preceded a left-right combination which levelled Johnson for the count.

Things were fierce at the negotiating table for the up-coming Jim Jeffries-Joe Frazier bout. In the end, the two camps agreed on the following terms --- a twenty-five rounder (Jeffries' insistence) in exchange for modern, 70's-era, 10 oz. gloves. (Frazier's request).

On the undercard, Julio Cesar Chavez was matched with Erik Morales at 130, in a twelve-rounder.

How goes it?

[HomicideHenry]

Frazier-Jefferies is a great fight through and through, much like Stander-Frazier was or how Jefferies-Sharkey was. Two bulls slamming eachother with powerful shots, but Jefferies is the stronger, more conditioned of the two men, while Frazier is the faster fighter. Jefferies gets cut up early on, but fights through it, even managing to drop Frazier in the 10th. It goes to a decision, with it being a DRAW of all things! The crowd is disappointed that a winner wasnt decided, but who in the hell could say the fight wasnt great? A rematch is talked immediately afterwards.

In what was one of the most talked of fights in ring history, Erik Morales managed to hang with the greatest Latino fighter of all time for ten rounds, virtually even, before the legedary Juilio Cesar Chavez pulled a right hook from Mars and Morales hit the canvas with such an impact, the referee didn't even attempt to count on after "four", obvious that Erik Morales was stone cold out of it, in the 11th round. The fight was excellent through and through, again, a rematch was talked immediately afterwards, Morales claiming Chavez was just plain lucky!



Main Event:

Manny Pacquia vs Pancho Villa, 12 rounds

Under-Card:

Lew Jenkins vs Ricky Hatton, 12 rounds

[My2Sense]

Main Event:

Manny Pacquia vs Pancho Villa, 12 rounds

Under-Card:

Lew Jenkins vs Ricky Hatton, 12 rounds

First, Hatton is too big and strong for Jenkins, who is really a natural jr. lightweight, and bullies him to a late round stoppage.

In the main event, Pacquiao is too fragile and inexperienced at 112 to hold off Villa, and Villa stops him within 5 rounds.


Next: Nino Benvenuti vs. Winky Wright, at 154.

[Goodnight, Irene]

I have a bit of a soft spot for Wright. I was in my teens during the late 90's & early part of this decade, & I felt that amongst the big-name Welters & Jr. Middles sat a man receiving few plaudits & even fewer accolades, all the while quietly going about his business as a shockingly under-estimated fighter.

Under-estimated or not, he's losing to Benvenuti's class. No if's, &'s, or but's.

Main Event: 15 rounds of Jake LaMotta & Carmen Basilio at MW. 320lbs in that ring, & every ounce of it would be heart (with maybe a little spilled claret )...

Undercard: Yori Boy Campas & Julio Cesar Vasquez at 154...

[HomicideHenry]

LaMotta-Basilio would be a thrilling fight through and through. Basilio the faster, more skilled of the two, imo, while LaMotta was the stronger. Robinson always said LaMotta was his toughest foe, but I think Basilio takes a decision over LaMotta, though a rather narrow one.

Campas loses a decision to Vasquez


Bob Fitzsimmons, vs, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, 20 rounds

[harrygreb]

some really great bouts lately gentlemen, superb work lets keep it up

ruby robert gives philly jack a thorough pasting in this one. for the 4 rounds it lasts o'brien is down 3 times in the second, twice in the 3rd (in which he sustains a broken jaw) and is finally decked for the full count in the first minute of the 4th with a perfect example of an uppercut to the heart which leaves philly jack in a crumpled heap. (the punch could and maybe will be used in boxing club videos to teach youngsters how to deliver that punch with bob's feet in an exemplary position for maximum power).

lew jenkins - this time at his best fighting weight (135lbs) - takes on the gifted scotsman ken buchanan for the vacant lightweight world title. (neither man has yet to be crowned champion of the world)