BoxRec

the title says it all - what fight have you just watched and what did you think of it?


Duran-kobyashi

1 sided beat down with durn showing his excelent 20 year old self against a super feather moving up

Last night -- Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao I

Weird because it is both El Terrible's Last Hurrah & his best night. Fantastic, fantastic fight. Showed A) the way to beat Manny (stay away from him at all costs, don't go looking for him unless you're completely sure you can hit him without being done yourself, when he misses he throws himself off-balance a little & then you can close with him & score when he almost doesn't expect it, fvcking glue that right glove to the side of your jaw, jab him really flipping hard 'cos it breaks up his rhythm) & B) that to beat him you have to literally go through Hell.

Great great fight all around really - skill, punching power, guts, swings of fortune. If I was Erik I'd have retired after that & gone back to eating burritos & smoking those fat cohibas (never forget the shot of him ringside at Corrales-Castillo I). But I'm not Erik.

Two nights ago --- Vazquez-Marquez II. Excellent, enthralling stoush, & worthy of its Fight Of The Year mantle for 2007. Still, the end bothers me. I thought it was premature then, I think it was premature now.

Jack Johnson - Jim flyn

Flyn constantly fouls and the ref doesnt care - johnson gives him a beat down and wins

2 nights ago pacman vs marquez 2...............still think pacman won...114-113 , only knockdown won him the fight


last week....

frazier vs ali 1..............frazier 8-7 but wins by 2 points with the knockdown

leonard vs duran 1..........only 2nd time i have watched the fight.....9-6 duran

Last night I watched Victor Rabanales-Joe Tatsuyoshi I-II, pretty decent fights, Rabanales reminds me a lot of Bazooka Limon and he outworks and stops the brave Japanese fighter in the first fight. I didn't watch the second one to closely because I was occupied with a plate of leftovers but it seemed to me from what I saw it looked like Rabanales was contolling the majority of the fight on the inside with angles and volume. But then again I tuned out for large chunks of the fight so I probably missed quite a bit.

Today I think I am going to watch Fenech-Nelson I if I have the time.

Last Night Mayweather vs De La Hoya and then Mayweather vs Hatton and im going to watch a few more Pac fights to come to my decision about there fight

Datsue wrote:Last night -- Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao I

Weird because it is both El Terrible's Last Hurrah & his best night. Fantastic, fantastic fight. Showed A) the way to beat Manny (stay away from him at all costs, don't go looking for him unless you're completely sure you can hit him without being done yourself, when he misses he throws himself off-balance a little & then you can close with him & score when he almost doesn't expect it, fvcking glue that right glove to the side of your jaw, jab him really flipping hard 'cos it breaks up his rhythm) & B) that to beat him you have to literally go through Hell.

Great great fight all around really - skill, punching power, guts, swings of fortune. If I was Erik I'd have retired after that & gone back to eating burritos & smoking those fat cohibas (never forget the shot of him ringside at Corrales-Castillo I). But I'm not Erik.

watched the same fight the other night. morales' last win. what a fight. damn morales was good!

Robinson/Fullmer...part of an all day boxing marathon on ESPN classic.

^^^Ummm, little help? There were four of 'em, ya know

It was the third installment

Foreman vs Chuvalo 1970.
Literally just finished watching it when I saw this thread! :)

Robinson wrote:Foreman vs Chuvalo 1970.
Literally just finished watching it when I saw this thread! :)

"...It's an awesome battering Chuvalo is taking. He is now spitting blood..."

Prince Charles Williams vs Merqui "My Nickname Should've Been Waters" Sosa I.

Absolutely fecking incredible phone-booth slugfest. Almost too vicious to watch; Alan Sugar (on the apparent advice of the ring doctor & Larry Hazzard) stops it after seven because they're both taking too much punishment, so it's a Technical Draw. Sosa's face is deformed (right eye/cheekbone a solid mass of swelling, swollen left eye, busted nose, cut over & under both eyes), Williams has a two-inch gash above his left eye. Sosa was pounding Williams with huge crude bombs to head & body in the seventh, but the ref had been to his corner several times & I think after the sixth told them both "One more round."

No complaints as to the stoppage from me, because that fight was something else. The kind of fight where both guys go at it like they've been told they'll be disqualified if they jab (or block a punch).

i saw that on ITV midweek sports special at the time, amazing stuff. the second one's probably just as good. actually i think it may have been the second one I saw at the time.

Frank Bruno v Jumbo Cummings, v Witherspoon and v Lewis.

Never liked Bruno as a fighter, never had a good thing to say about him. But I will give him his due, having rewatched these and with the benefit of hindsight, he was a bloody good fighter while his tank was full. Just seemed to literally run into a brick wall at a certain point.
His performance against Lewis looks very good now (good performance pre-fight too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKyuVd2JoAo - no way Lewis was going to get under Frank's skin!). Maybe if he came in lighter....................................................................... he would have hit the wall later in the fight!

Leonard vs Hearns 2 I had it even it was a very close fight, with the great Reg Gutteridge commentating comparing hitting Leonard to watching Bambi's mum dying

Small vs McDonagh, 4th time today, gets better and better each time

Toney v Nunn. Really hated to see Nunn blow it late.

Just finished Camacho-Rosario and am watching Fenech-Nelson I at the moment.

Ali Vs Liston I - Came away thinking Liston was vastly overrated...and had no heart whatsoever. The fight was stopped after the 6th round and Liston had a small cut and was busted up slightly (at the most). Ali landed hardly anything of note in the final 6th round to make someone quit.

You'd probably draw the same conclusion if you just watched Duran's effort against Leonard.

A career is a long thing, & funny things can happen on any given night. Liston had some real heart in several of his bouts. For whatever reason (let's not get into it, folkes), he quit that night. Doesn't mean he was a quitter by definition.

meade95 wrote:Ali Vs Liston I - Came away thinking Liston was vastly overrated...and had no heart whatsoever. The fight was stopped after the 6th round and Liston had a small cut and was busted up slightly (at the most). Ali landed hardly anything of note in the final 6th round to make someone quit.

6 rounds of getting bashed up by a younger, faster, more motivated fighter will do that to many guys.

Liston was an excellent fighter. No need to run the guy down. He belongs up there in the pantheon of champions.

(Jeez, I hope i used that word pantheon correctly or that pudendum Carlos The Jackass will rip me a new arsehole!)

Collins2000 wrote: (Jeez, I hope i used that word pantheon correctly or that pudendum Carlos The Jackass will rip me a new arsehole!)

Carlos-Wigan wrote:

Collins2000 wrote: (Jeez, I hope i used that word pantheon correctly or that pudendum Carlos The Jackass will rip me a new arsehole!)

Phew!

(This junior dictionary I bought already paid for itself!)