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Coco wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 08:03

Damn!

You went there..

THEBUTCH wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025, 18:21 Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Could be because it was on the undercard of Marvin Hagler's out & out war with John Mugabi.

Hearns didn't show any ill effects of his defeat to Hagler. Shuler went down like he'd been taken out with a shot gun !!

Coco wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 08:03

You knew before the bell rang who was going to get knocked out there.

Deserter wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 09:12

THEBUTCH wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025, 18:21 Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

First fight I ever watched was Bruno stopping Jesse Furgeson in 1.

Two the felt shocking at the time: Michael Jennings KO’ing the hard as nails Jimmy Vincent in the first and Kiko Martinez seeming to come from nowhere to stop the highly touted Bernard Dunne in front of a home crowd.

Best one round fight I can remember would be Ricardo Torres vs Kendall Holt.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 08:25

Coco wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 08:03

Damn!

You went there..

Shouldn't have been there, but had the balls to do it

MasterG wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 07:13 Mike Tyson v Marvis Frazier.

i kinda feel for marvis, he was a solid fighter (world am champ, several decent wins) but only remembered for his brutal ko losses. he was better than a lot of cruiser world champs and couldve done well there.

Coco wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 08:03

wow! big upset. love did well to get through those early torrid moments as the heavy hands of homicide henry came down on him

MasterG wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 09:58

Deserter wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 09:12

THEBUTCH wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025, 18:21 Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

Those body shots were brutal

Considering the bout lasted a mere 60 seconds the Hitman dished out a lot of punishment !

paultom wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 13:32

MasterG wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 09:58

Deserter wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 09:12
Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

Those body shots were brutal

Such a tall fella, with such long arms, and whipped them in with such speed

Imagine what Tommy would do to the middleweight division now

THEBUTCH wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 17:56 Imagine what Tommy would do to the middleweight division now

Sadly it would suck just as much. No point having one top tier guy plowing through the rest of them.
Middleweight was always good because there were three or four fantastic fighters at any one time who fought each other, often repeatedly.

Azumah Nelson v Pat Cowdell.

Azumah Nelson is often underrated but what a boxer-puncher.

MasterG wrote: ↑03 Jun 2025, 05:35 Azumah Nelson v Pat Cowdell.

That one actually shocked me at the time

Maskaev McCall

Tua v Ruiz

Scary knockout

Jon Thaxton vs Scap iron Ryan.....

Jimmy2025 wrote: ↑03 Jun 2025, 09:16

Tua v Ruiz

Scary knockout

Came here to post this. Legendary

was that the end of john ruiz the box and mover, and the birth of john ruiz the hugger

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 00:03 was that the end of john ruiz the box and mover, and the birth of john ruiz the hugger

To some extent, yes. I always had a lot of respect for Ruiz for bouncing back from that knockout. Not many could come back from that and still achieve plenty. He adapted. Not a pretty style, of course.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 12:36

MasterG wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025, 07:13 Mike Tyson v Marvis Frazier.

i kinda feel for marvis, he was a solid fighter (world am champ, several decent wins) but only remembered for his brutal ko losses. he was better than a lot of cruiser world champs and couldve done well there.

Agreed.

I also believe that his father mismanaged him.

Marvis was a decent boxer, but Smokin Joe tried to turn him into a mini me.

Probably didn't want his son fighting like Muhammad Ali.