Classic fights I've watched recently

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Pavlik- Taylor.


Taylor started sharp. Put Pavlik down but went for broke. Pavlik weathered the storm, walked him down and brutally finished him.

Holmes- Norton

One of the best Heavyweight fights ever. One of the best 15th rounds ever.
I agree with the decision. I thought Holmes was the worthy winner. What a jab.

Holmes/Norton: RD 15 - greatest round without a knockdown I've ever seen.

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Pavlik- Taylor.


Taylor started sharp. Put Pavlik down but went for broke. Pavlik weathered the storm, walked him down and brutally finished him.

Holmes- Norton

One of the best Heavyweight fights ever. One of the best 15th rounds ever.
I agree with the decision. I thought Holmes was the worthy winner. What a jab.

Agree about Holmes's jab, a thing of fistic beauty.

Just to think, he busted his bicep in this fight, but still managed to put on that performance.

[Ambling Alp II]

In the Norton-Holmes fight, all three judges had the fight dead even going into the 15th round. I had Holmes up by two points.

In the last round, Norton was having a great round for the first two minutes or so. Then Holmes came on strong in the last minute and stole the round on two of the three judges' scorecards. Norton's comeback came up a little short. Great fight.

[DrDuke]

Norton should have started faster vs Holmes. No problem with the dec.

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Eddie Machen vs Doug Jones

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Frank Bruno vs Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings

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Greg Page vs Scott LeDoux

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Frank Bruno vs Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings

The cracks appeared for the first time.

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Frank Bruno vs Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings

The cracks appeared for the first time.

Yep Bruno out on his feet at the end of the 1st round, totally gone

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someone here mentioned it earlier , so I thought I would watch it. and it was good.

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Yeh great fight that, it was first time I'd seen Pavlik, thought he was away early but rallied back and battered Taylor into defeat

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Frank Bruno vs Floyd "Jumbo" Cummings

A proper bearpit fight at the Albert Hall......Cummings only narrowly missed Bruno with the same bingo punch about five times in the second and that really would've been good night Vienna/Wandsworth for Frank.

If Cummings had only been a bit more patient....but then again why be patient in those kind of circumstances?

Still not sure how Lawless and Tibbs got Bruno out for the second round or actually whether they should have......it is hard to think of any fighter more totally banjoed but somehow standing up. Almost a case of being too wrecked to hit the deck

Weirdly there are signs in that contest that Bruno knew how to protect himself in this early fight, the big clinch and walking himself out of a corner, but it would take a different training team and some painful defeats to sort this out.

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Gerrie Coetzee vs Scott LeDoux

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Gerrie Coetzee vs Scott LeDoux

A timely reminder that the sadly, recently passed Coetzee was a proper fighter and one of the very few non-Americans to be a major player in the HW scene at this juncture

Watched the fight - complete with some crazy Afrikaans commentary - and frankly, LeDoux was a headcase.

You're fighting a bloke who can properly bang, move way better than you and its in Jo'burg and at altitude so you ain't going to outwork him either......LeDoux just ploughs forward and jeez, his hands are low against someone like Coetzee.

LeDoux was brave, strong and potentially dangerous with some big overhand shots.....but I am guessing he could not actually deliver a Plan B or was such a pure-outright brawler that he could not be bothered with that stuff.

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Tommy Morrison vs James Tillis

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Moorer against Bert Cooper.

One of the best Heavyweight slugfests of all time.

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Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison

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Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison

Morrison looked great early on, only to fall victim to the most ferocious KO I think I've ever seen.

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Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison

Morrison looked great early on, only to fall victim to the most ferocious KO I think I've ever seen.

Yeh I've seen the KO countless times before, I'd say it's the most ferocious I've seen as well

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Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison

Morrison looked great early on, only to fall victim to the most ferocious KO I think I've ever seen.

Yeh I've seen the KO countless times before, I'd say it's the most ferocious I've seen as well

Crazy to think that Tony Perez refereed both Morrison-Mercer and Norton-Cooney.

[oogiebe]

Morrison looked great early on, only to fall victim to the most ferocious KO I think I've ever seen.

Yeh I've seen the KO countless times before, I'd say it's the most ferocious I've seen as well

Crazy to think that Tony Perez refereed both Morrison-Mercer and Norton-Cooney.

LOL!!! I hadn't realized that! Nice pickup. Tony "one (or four) time too many punches" Perez

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Michael Bentt vs Tommy Morrison

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Tommy Morrison vs Ross Puritty

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Henry Akinwande vs Axel Schulz 1+2

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Ray Mercer vs Francesco Damiani