Underrated Great Fights

[gilgamesh]

I personally thought the first 3 rounds of the Vitali vs Sanders fight was entertaining, and the rest was tough to watch as Sanders took a serious beating from rounds 4 thru 8.

Morales vs Chavez was memorable because of the 2 knockdowns for Morales in the 2nd and the fact that Chavez fought from about round 3 or 4 onward as basically a one-armed fighter when his right shoulder was severely injured, but he hung in all the way and made a pretty good fight of it with his left.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Bowe-Golota II. Wow.

Not a bad shout.

It was just naked courage from Bowe, against a man who ought to have been able to eat him for breakfast by that point.

I hate it when people say ''oh, he ducked Lewis like a bitch'' or ''Golota hammered him'' - well, the Lewis point is probably fair enough, but it was Bowe's ability to stay in the Golota fights that forced the nutter to basically quit/foul himself out.

Ive made that point myself before.

[dempseyfire]

2 more, featuring the criminally under-rated Henry Hank:

Hank-Dick Tiger

Hank-Mauro Mina

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Michael Moorer -v- Bert Cooper

Leotis Martin -v- Sonny Liston

Mark Kaylor -v- Errol Christie

Thomas Hearns -v- Juan Roldan

4 great battles that don't get mentioned enough amongst the pantheon of great fights.

[dempseyfire]

Erik Morales-In Chin Chi

Ray Robinson-Bobby Dykes

And 2 knockdown-filled wars featuring a fighter who was made for TV, big punching but glass jawed Ezra Sellers, who also had decent offensive skills but a porous defense:

Carl Thompson-Ezra Sellers

Ezra Sellers-Alex Stewart

[tommo100]

dave mcauley vs fidel bassa 1
one of the last ever 15 round fights

[llabwons]

Dave McAuley v Fidel Bassa stands out for me

[elmersalsa]

Mike McCallum vs James Toney...A great fight of high skill level.

[thunderfromdownunder]

Cotto V Mosley, what a great fight. It was overshadowed by Hatton V Mayweather and De La Hoya V Mayweather, but IMO it was a far better fight than both. Though I did somewhat enjoy watching Floyd dismantle Ricky.
An all Aussie affair, Geale V Mundine was very good viewing, had everything, close fight, fast pace, good skills and some controversy over the decision. I encourage anyone who hasn't seen this fight to get on YouTube and check it out

[witherspoon]

Tony Lopez and Freddie Pendleton had a pretty entertaining scrap in '95 which seems to be forgotten.

[Tomasino]

O'Neil Bell KO Jean Marc Mormeck
Ken Buchannan vs Ismael Laguna
Vince Phillips v Kostya Tszyu