Classic fights I've watched recently

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John David Jackson vs Reggie Johnson

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Jorge Castro vs Reggie Johnson 1

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Julius Francis vs Muppet Street thug....

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Roy Jones Jr vs Reggie Johnson

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Jim McDonnell vs Clyde Ruan

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Jim McDonnell vs Clyde Ruan

I always find a lot of interest in seeing the fights you watch. I see you do a series on a specific fighter and other times pick specific bouts like this one. Would love for you to write a bit of a review of why you selected the fight and what you thought, if you would be so kind.

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Jim McDonnell vs Clyde Ruan

I always find a lot of interest in seeing the fights you watch. I see you do a series on a specific fighter and other times pick specific bouts like this one. Would love for you to write a bit of a review of why you selected the fight and what you thought, if you would be so kind.

Nice one mate, it basically started off with me going though some list of top 100 fights but whereas for instance Ali/Frazier 3 was No1 I watched all three fights and I done that all way through the list so I must've watched well over 200 fights by end of it, then I went through some A-Z of fighters of a book I had although I skipped the guys I never knew or heard much of, now I'm basically going through the fighters in the thread but not breaking the fights down like I used to mainly because I can't be bothered

I'm on page 12 in the thread and that's at the time when Horse done his 52 fights of the year so there's a lot of lesser guys popping up now and again, hence the Ruan fight, his fight with McGuigan was in Horse's thing, I've already been through McGuigan's career so watched Ruan but the McDonnell fight is all there is really

Next up is Carl Thompson, I've seen his fights with Eubank, Haye, Nelson and Sellers so I'm gonna watch the Nicky Piper fight today

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Carl Thompson vs Nicky Piper

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Jim McDonnell vs Clyde Ruan

I always find a lot of interest in seeing the fights you watch. I see you do a series on a specific fighter and other times pick specific bouts like this one. Would love for you to write a bit of a review of why you selected the fight and what you thought, if you would be so kind.

Nice one mate, it basically started off with me going though some list of top 100 fights but whereas for instance Ali/Frazier 3 was No1 I watched all three fights and I done that all way through the list so I must've watched well over 200 fights by end of it, then I went through some A-Z of fighters of a book I had although I skipped the guys I never knew or heard much of, now I'm basically going through the fighters in the thread but not breaking the fights down like I used to mainly because I can't be bothered

I'm on page 12 in the thread and that's at the time when Horse done his 52 fights of the year so there's a lot of lesser guys popping up now and again, hence the Ruan fight, his fight with McGuigan was in Horse's thing, I've already been through McGuigan's career so watched Ruan but the McDonnell fight is all there is really

Next up is Carl Thompson, I've seen his fights with Eubank, Haye, Nelson and Sellers so I'm gonna watch the Nicky Piper fight today

Very cool!

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Carl Thompson vs Ralf Rocchigiani 1+2

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James Toney vs Reggie Johnson

Just six weeks after beating Nunn. Good fight.

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James Toney vs Reggie Johnson

Just six weeks after beating Nunn. Good fight.

Yeh that's right mate, commentary mentioned that, Johnson dropped Toney as well early doors

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James Toney vs Reggie Johnson

Just six weeks after beating Nunn. Good fight.

yeah, you get the impression Toney's handlers back then really didn't want him having layoffs; keeping him busy was keeping him in shape i guess, his matchmaking back in those days has all the signs of a fighter who was *hungry* 9in the right way)

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James Toney vs Reggie Johnson

Just six weeks after beating Nunn. Good fight.

yeah, you get the impression Toney's handlers back then really didn't want him having layoffs; keeping him busy was keeping him in shape i guess, his matchmaking back in those days has all the signs of a fighter who was *hungry* 9in the right way)

Jackie Kallen was hungry, nearly as hungry as big James.

As an aside, when folk go on about guys like Langford going up and therefore the heavyweights of his time being shit, Toney getting dropped heavily by Johnson is a good example of how anomalies like Langford can compete with top guys who well outweigh them.

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ha, yeah Jackie sure looked like she had some sharp elbows on her.

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Is it possible for a boxer to "de-evole' ?

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1976- (38th pro fight)

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James Toney vs Reggie Johnson

Just six weeks after beating Nunn. Good fight.

I’m just having a look at this now, I’m sure I must have seen it but it was a good while back. Wow Toney looks crude next to Johnson at times.

Johnson is always such a good watch with that smoothness. A fight between him and Herol Graham would have been a real clash of the fast southpaws.

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Man, this was a brutal fight.

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Carl Thompson vs Sebastiaan Rothmann

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Danny Lopez vs Roberto Castanon

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Salvador Sanchez vs Roberto Castanon

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John Tate vs Gerrie Coetzee

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Trevor Berbick vs John Tate

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Scott Harrison vs Tracy Harris Patterson

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Trevor Berbick vs John Tate

Big John is high value.