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Here a very specific questions I don't think we've covered. What is the biggest turnaround in a fight? I don't mean biggest come from behind win necessarily (although that qualifies) but fighter A is getting his ass really kicked by fighter B and comes back and KO's him. I'm thinking Tate vs Weaver or Shavers vs Williams, that kind of thing.

Only one answer: Moore vs Durell

That's the lazurus boxing moment of a lifetime.

Castro/jackson

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Castro/jackson

I was coming in to suggest that one. Aside from winning every round up to that point Jackson also had Castro sliced to ribbons and swollen all to hell when Castro stormed back and got a miracle stoppage.

Hong-Carrasquilla

Hong down four times and getting a pasting in the second round, comes back to win by knockout in the third.

If an aussies have seen this fight....Danny Green vs Krzysztof Wlodarczyk. Green boxing behind his jab for 11 rounds, racking up points. Wlodarczyk walking him down but landing barely anything. Green ends up punching himself out with his stiff punches, plus Wlodarczyk's presence/pressure causes more stiffness in Danny and then bang, Wlodarczyk lands and Green is done.

I think Toney Nunn fits the catergory except I havnt seen the fight in ages. Also Jirov Toney, except Toney wasn't taking much punishment but being out worked. Correct me if I'm wrong, i'm sure there are better examples. These just come to mind.

gilgamesh wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Castro/jackson

I was coming in to suggest that one. Aside from winning every round up to that point Jackson also had Castro sliced to ribbons and swollen all to hell when Castro stormed back and got a miracle stoppage.

Just watched both their fights last week,1st one was a classic

Also Carbajal/Gonzalez 1

Gonzalez vs that Thai is an even bigger turnaround

The first Romeo Anaya-Arnold Taylor fight. Taylor down 4 times and unleashes a right hand in the 14th that takes Anaya out.

Iran Barkley v Thomas Hearns 1.

Hearns was cutting Barkley to ribbons & creasing him with body shots & it looked like Iran wasn't going to be able to continue, until Barkley levelled him.

Syntax Error wrote:Iran Barkley v Thomas Hearns 1.

Hearns was cutting Barkley to ribbons & creasing him with body shots & it looked like Iran wasn't going to be able to continue, until Barkley levelled him.

Hmm, I'll have to go back and have a look at that, I read somewhere on a very good boxing forum, (from an expert no less) That Barkley handled Tommy with ease before effortlessly knocking him out.

Watch the fight and judge his 'expertise' accordingly

Fidel Bassa vs Dave "Boy" McCaulley I...Bassa came back after a serial of knockdowns. What a fight.

Whitaker/hurtado was fantastically violent.

I'm going for Eubank/Watson 2. Watson was winning and decked Eubank and Chris got up and threw that desperation uppercut that decked Watson. Of course terrible how much Watson was hurt by this encounter but rarely have I seen such a dramatic turnaround in boxing.

Carl Thompson was beat up by David Haye before savagely finishing Haye in a fight that always brings a smile to my face.

Lamon Brewster's coming back to stop Wladimir Klitschko in the 5th after an awful shellacking through the first 4 rounds is worth a mention.

Antonio Margarito was getting a boxing lesson the first 5 rounds against Miguel Cotto. After round 6, it was all Margarito's!

crusader wrote:Hong-Carrasquilla

Hong down four times and getting a pasting in the second round, comes back to win by knockout in the third.

I never tire of watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDhxjdDbgc

Ya, I've matched it several times myself.

Jozef Nagy-Zack Mwekassa is another fight where one guy was down a bunch of times but came back to win. In Nagy's case he was dropped five times across I believe three rounds, but he was persistent, Mwekassa gassed, and Nagy was able to finish him in the sixth. Despite all the knockdowns Nagy was actually fairly competitive throughout (he'd repeatedly have good moments, only to get dropped at the end of a series of exchanges), so it's not as big of a turnaround as most others mentioned.

cfang wrote:I'm going for Eubank/Watson 2. Watson was winning and decked Eubank and Chris got up and threw that desperation uppercut that decked Watson. Of course terrible how much Watson was hurt by this encounter but rarely have I seen such a dramatic turnaround in boxing.

This is a good one. Unfortunate about the consequences. This same thing was close to happening in Collins Eubank 1 and 2. Eubank, such a frustrating fighter to watch at times. Didn't like pressure.

Both of the first two Zale-Graziano fights were huge turnarounds.
In the first fight, Zale did knock Graziano in the first round, but after that Graziano was all over him until Zale came back out of nowhere.
The 2nd fight it was all Zale for a while until Graziano charged back.

Benn vs mcClellan
Foreman vs Moorer

Thompson/Rothmann and to a lesser extent, Rothmann/Bell

To a lesser extent mormeck-bell 1? Bell was about 6/7 pts down on the cards IIRC