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Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 14:18
by VG_Addict
What were some examples?
I say Jones-Toney
Jones-Hopkins
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 14:32
by Baby Face Finster
Whitaker - Chavez
Hearns - Duran
Forrest - Mosley
Pacquiao - DLH
Pacquiao - Barrera
Mayweather - Gatti
Ward - Kessler & Froch
Hopkins - Pavlik
Kovalev - Hopkins
Calzaghe - Lacy
Foreman - Frazier I & II
Those are the ones that came to mind.
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 14:45
by Syntax Error
Baby Face Finster wrote:Whitaker - Chavez
Hearns - Duran
Forrest - Mosley
Pacquiao - DLH
Pacquiao - Barrera
Mayweather - Gatti
Ward - Kessler & Froch
Hopkins - Pavlik
Kovalev - Hopkins
Calzaghe - Lacy
Foreman - Frazier I & II
Those are the ones that came to mind.
Good list.
They were so one sided that you'd never believe that both opponents were world class.
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 14:50
by Syntax Error
Lennox Lewis -v- David Tua.
Lennox Lewis -v- Donovan Razor Ruddock.
Mike Tyson -v- Michael Spinks.
Mike Tyson -v- Trevor Berbick.
Prince Naseem Hamed -v- Tom Johnson.
Wladimir Klitschko -v- David Haye.
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 16:50
by Rexob
Mayweather against all of the fighters he has boxed the last 5 years.
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 16:50
by Rexob
Prince Naseem Hamed vs Belcastro
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 17:30
by Boxing Writer
Chris Byrd - David Tua
Bernard Hopkins - Antonio Tarver
Barrera - Hamed
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 17:52
by Rexob
Khan vs Barrera
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 18:03
by littlepug
Hero graham v Julian Jackson for a bit.....
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 18:09
by digzee
Rigo v Donaire.
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 19:40
by ClivePatrickLyons
Pacman you listening elmersalsa when moving up in weight
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 23:40
by Lackeos
Winky Wright vs Felix Trinidad
Ali vs Liston
Ali vs Foreman
Trout - Cotto
Mayweather - Marquez
Ward - Kessler
Kovalev - Hopkins
Re: Fighters making top opponents look ordinary.
Posted: 02 Sep 2015, 08:17
by PredatorHayds
Baby Face Finster wrote:Whitaker - Chavez
Hearns - Duran
Forrest - Mosley
Pacquiao - DLH
Pacquiao - Barrera
Mayweather - Gatti
Ward - Kessler & Froch
Hopkins - Pavlik
Kovalev - Hopkins
Calzaghe - Lacy
Foreman - Frazier I & II
Those are the ones that came to mind.
I'm still in shock with the Hopkins-Pavlik one now.
Looking back his heavy drinking might of started around that time.