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Sids wrote:Mickey Ward in the first Arturo Gatti fight.

Yeah, he got to a film in made in his honour because of the fights with Gatti and they didn't even show them in the film :P

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Moorer v Mario Melo

Hamed v Said Lawal

Herol Graham -v- Rod Douglas

Sergey Kovalev -v- Bernard Hopkins

Thomas Hearns -v- Roberto Duran

Syntax Error wrote:Herol Graham -v- Rod Douglas

Sergey Kovalev -v- Bernard Hopkins

Thomas Hearns -v- Roberto Duran

I Remember watching that, it was supposed to be quite a test for Herol but he just bamboozled Douglas all night and a sad ending to Douglas career.

Rod Douglas was a big hitter and a very good fighter.

Herol had a few God like performances; Kaylor was a great win - for a boxer as game as Kaylor to quit because he couldn't hit Herol is something - almost like Ray Leonard v Duran 2.

The Herol v Chris Johnson bout I watched through my fingers, fearing the worst but Bomber was amazing.

I'll be very cheeky and add the first 3 rounds of the Jackson bout; Herol boxed like a ATG until that missile landed and reminded us all he was human.

Toney vs Barkley
Mayweather vs Gatti
Ali vs Williams

Rexob wrote:Ali vs Foreman. Ali won a fight he shouldn't have "inspired God like" performance. Just wish they had another camera, when he was doing his Ali shuffle after the knockdown.

Funny I think of that fight as one of worst performances ever by a heavy weight champ ,foreman was unbelievably bad and Ali did nothing till the end

Ali v Cleveland Williams......no one ever beats him that night
Ali v Foreman......Who could have done that :??
Duran v Davey Moore......It was cruel the worst ref in boxing
Leonard v Hagler.......Famous Victory Cemented his legacy

stevedoc wrote:

Rexob wrote:Ali vs Foreman. Ali won a fight he shouldn't have "inspired God like" performance. Just wish they had another camera, when he was doing his Ali shuffle after the knockdown.

Funny I think of that fight as one of worst performances ever by a heavy weight champ ,foreman was unbelievably bad and Ali did nothing till the end

I'd watch that again. The right crosses weren't nothing, and neither were the body punches Ali somehow took.

Tony1244 wrote:

stevedoc wrote:

Rexob wrote:Ali vs Foreman. Ali won a fight he shouldn't have "inspired God like" performance. Just wish they had another camera, when he was doing his Ali shuffle after the knockdown.

Funny I think of that fight as one of worst performances ever by a heavy weight champ ,foreman was unbelievably bad and Ali did nothing till the end

I'd watch that again. The right crosses weren't nothing, and neither were the body punches Ali somehow took.

Yeah, Ali took some really heavy punches, up and down. When you think about the tough men who Foreman haadwrecked with similar punches it really does show how very tough and strong minded Ali was; I imagine other men would have gone to the floor if they weren't knocked there. In retrospect, Ali took too much in that bout, in the Thomas Hauser biography on Ali I am sure Foreman said he landed the hardest punch he ever threw on Ali and was utterly amazed it hadn't folded him.

Tony1244 wrote:

stevedoc wrote:

Rexob wrote:Ali vs Foreman. Ali won a fight he shouldn't have "inspired God like" performance. Just wish they had another camera, when he was doing his Ali shuffle after the knockdown.

Funny I think of that fight as one of worst performances ever by a heavy weight champ ,foreman was unbelievably bad and Ali did nothing till the end

I'd watch that again. The right crosses weren't nothing, and neither were the body punches Ali somehow took.

I haven't seen it decades to be fair .

stevedoc wrote:

Rexob wrote:Ali vs Foreman. Ali won a fight he shouldn't have "inspired God like" performance. Just wish they had another camera, when he was doing his Ali shuffle after the knockdown.

Funny I think of that fight as one of worst performances ever by a heavy weight champ ,foreman was unbelievably bad and Ali did nothing till the end

The old "Rope a Dope" trick worked beautiful.

A relatively new one, Inoue vs Narvaez. The Monster went up 2 divisions and absolutely demolished a true veteran who had never come close to being stopped, was sensational

Jones-Griffin II
Matthysse-Peterson
Mayorga-Forrest I
Froch-Bute
Hopkins-Trinidad/Tarver
Pacman-Hatton
Calzaghe-Lacy

Ezzard Charles vs Joe Louis

johnswan1 wrote:Jones-Griffin II
Matthysse-Peterson
Mayorga-Forrest I
Froch-Bute
Hopkins-Trinidad/Tarver
Pacman-Hatton
Calzaghe-Lacy

I'd forgotten Jone:s rematch with Griffin - he was absolutely superb and destructive that night.

Sergio for 11 rounds vs. Chavez Jr.

Bradley for 11 rounds vs. Provodnikov

Tommy Hearns for 11 rounds vs. Sugar Ray Leonard in first fight

Meldrick Tayor for 11 rounds vs. Chavez

Johnny Greaves vs Dan Carr

palooka wrote: Hamed v Said Lawal

Didn't that fight last about 15 seconds?

Boxerbeetle wrote:

palooka wrote: Hamed v Said Lawal

Didn't that fight last about 15 seconds?

that's the one, have you seen it?

palooka wrote:

Boxerbeetle wrote:

palooka wrote: Hamed v Said Lawal

Didn't that fight last about 15 seconds?

that's the one, have you seen it?

Yeah I watched it live on TV - it must have been one of Hamed's last ITV performances?

Shane Mosley Vs Antonio Margarito


Pure destruction from a fighter thought completely shot at the time. I still love watching this!!

littlepug wrote:

Rexob wrote:Douglas vs Tyson

x2, Douglas looked like he could've beaten any heavyweight in history that night.

No he didn't. That's a crock of shite.

He almost got sparked out by Tyson don't forget.

Mike was listless and slow of hand and foot that night, you could see from his ring walk all was not well, I remember Frank Bruno in commentary saying how lifeless he looked during the pre fight announcement.

Beating a demotivated Tyson, does not qualify you to beat 'anyone in history.'

Douglas fought out of his skin, no doubt, but that's a very hyperbolic exaggeration to say the least.

Jones Vs Hill - one of his very best performances.

Ali vs Cleveland Williams.

Foreman v Frazier 1 and 2. Utter annihilation.

Three that spring to mind.