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Are in that rare category where you hesitate to pick a winner because, for some reason, you just cant picture the two guys sharing a ring? Something about the styles muddies your thinking.

Two, 'black spots,' for me are Pryor vs. De La Hoya and Liston vs. Holyfield.

..no problem with de la hoya vs. pryor...de la hoya wins. liston vs. holyfield? now there's one to keep you awake at night as you switch from one to the other. thanks. old friend, for the hours of sleep you now have me losing.

Jaclem wrote:..no problem with de la hoya vs. pryor...de la hoya wins. liston vs. holyfield? now there's one to keep you awake at night as you switch from one to the other. thanks. old friend, for the hours of sleep you now have me losing.

All the best for the new year, Jaclem.

Liston seems to be a weakness for me. I also struggle picturing him in a ring with Dempsey & Lewis, & picking winners there.

140 mightve been De La Hoya's most lethal division, but Pryor was the more experienced. I just have trouble with the styles.

Holyfield Liston....wow....that's a tangent for sure. I'm going with Liston, because at some point, somewhere along the line, Holyfield is going to "dummy up" and want to just plain do a gunslinging moment, he doesn't have it in him to avoid it..........and I don't see that working out well for Holy.

However after he loses his pride, and comes back with a plan..for Fight II.....I think he'd do rather well.

as for the other....DLH would own that bird, clean his cage, and ground all flight activity.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:Are in that rare category where you hesitate to pick a winner because, for some reason, you just cant picture the two guys sharing a ring? Something about the styles muddies your thinking.

Two, 'black spots,' for me are Pryor vs. De La Hoya and Liston vs. Holyfield.

Patterson-Charles---I know there was a recent thread on this one + I started one several years ago. I don't know what happens in this one and it seems an odd style match-up to me.

I would put Patterson-Tunney as another one that just does not have that natural match-up feel to me. Also hard to figure.

Archer-Giardello and prime Ali-Holmes also comes to mind.

Always thought Ellis-Quarry seemed kind of an awkward match-up of styles.

Saddler vs Arguello

Whitaker vs Meldrick Taylor

Whitaker vs Camacho (prime)

Monzon vs Hagler

Griffith vs Gavilan

theone wrote:Saddler vs Arguello

Whitaker vs Meldrick Taylor

Whitaker vs Camacho (prime)

Monzon vs Hagler

Whitaker might lose 5 rounds in those fights combined. He embarrassed Camacho sparring when he was still an amateur.