Brothers fighting
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Boxing Prospect
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Brothers fighting
Earlier this week Japanese TV aired a repeat showing of Eguchi vs Eguchi (http://boxrec.com/bout/525285) and I'm just treating myself to watching it now...
I assumed that it would have been a tame affair with one guy simply beating his brother in a light spar type of thing...but fornicate me I was wrong, they went out their to beat the shit out of each other! Vicious leather from both guys. Only in round 3 but...wow
So the question, does the thought of brothers fighting seem a bit sick or are there other cases of brothers fighting?
I assumed that it would have been a tame affair with one guy simply beating his brother in a light spar type of thing...but fornicate me I was wrong, they went out their to beat the shit out of each other! Vicious leather from both guys. Only in round 3 but...wow
So the question, does the thought of brothers fighting seem a bit sick or are there other cases of brothers fighting?
Re: Brothers fighting
Obviously, this puts one in mind of the K brothers.
If memory serves, they vowed never to fight for the official reason that their mother had asked them not to and they obviously wanted to honor that. But, I seem to recall that one of them said in an interview that another part of the reason that they didn't want to do it is that they KNEW that it would absolutely get very intense and that it wouldn't take much for them to go at it with everything they had. I remember that my first thought was along the same lines as you, so this was pretty interesting to hear.
If memory serves, they vowed never to fight for the official reason that their mother had asked them not to and they obviously wanted to honor that. But, I seem to recall that one of them said in an interview that another part of the reason that they didn't want to do it is that they KNEW that it would absolutely get very intense and that it wouldn't take much for them to go at it with everything they had. I remember that my first thought was along the same lines as you, so this was pretty interesting to hear.
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watsupdoc87
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Re: Brothers fighting
The winner defended the Jap belt afew times. Way more important than fighting your bro as a grown man. Although they were minimum weights so doubt anyone got hurt 
Re: Brothers fighting
I've seen MANY brothers in this game... the Klitschko brothers... Travis and Tarvis Sims... Dirrell brothers... Spinks brothers... Ali brothers... Patterson brothers... Gibbons brothers... Fullmer brothers... Cotto brothers... Jeffries brothers... Baer brothers
But none of them fought each other EVER!!! WHY??? ... I always knew it would happen at some point -- because why not??? ... It's money.
But none of them fought each other EVER!!! WHY??? ... I always knew it would happen at some point -- because why not??? ... It's money.
Re: Brothers fighting
yeah cos those guys couldn't possibly hurt each other could they ?watsupdoc87 wrote:The winner defended the Jap belt afew times. Way more important than fighting your bro as a grown man. Although they were minimum weights so doubt anyone got hurt
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Boxing Prospect
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Re: Brothers fighting
Videoa been uploaded!
http://www.asianboxing.info/videos/kusu ... aki-eguchi
http://www.asianboxing.info/videos/kusu ... aki-eguchi
Re: Brothers fighting
The winner won by KOwatsupdoc87 wrote:The winner defended the Jap belt afew times. Way more important than fighting your bro as a grown man. Although they were minimum weights so doubt anyone got hurt
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Roars Like Me
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Re: Brothers fighting
I think we can all agree that Eguchi takes this one.
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watsupdoc87
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Re: Brothers fighting
Minimumweightlittlepug wrote:yeah cos those guys couldn't possibly hurt each other could they ?watsupdoc87 wrote:The winner defended the Jap belt afew times. Way more important than fighting your bro as a grown man. Although they were minimum weights so doubt anyone got hurtstill professional boxers dude
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PsychoGamerTwo
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Re: Brothers fighting
Don't most people die or get injured badly in lower weights?
Re: Brothers fighting
Didn't Marty and Eric Jakubowski fight each other (although not too intense)?
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Re: Brothers fighting
A lot have. You have to really love the game to be a lower weight boxer, the brilliant thing about those low weight divisions is it gives a chance to everyone to be a champ, those little dudes that aren't big enough to compete in popular team sports have a chance to shine in a cool sport and be part of somethingPsychoGamerTwo wrote:Don't most people die or get injured badly in lower weights?
Re: Brothers fighting
They're only half brothers, and are at different career stages and slightly different weights, so a fight is unlikely...
But I reckon Conor Benn and Eubank jrs half brothers would definitely not shy away from fighting them
But I reckon Conor Benn and Eubank jrs half brothers would definitely not shy away from fighting them
Re: Brothers fighting
I thought he lostRoars Like Me wrote:I think we can all agree that Eguchi takes this one.