Surprisingly Tough Victories For All Time Greats In Their Prime

[keithmoonhangover]

They're an all time great, they still win the fight, but it was a lot harder than expected.

I'll start us off with Evander Holyfield's fight with Bert Cooper. Bert was a replacement for a replacement, but still, Holyfield should have dominated him.

What examples can you think of?

[gilgamesh]

Holmes with Mike Weaver
Lennox Lewis with Mavrovic
Floyd Mayweather with Castillo (both fights, especially the 1st)

[Expug]

There are lots of these for sure.
Pipino Cuevas - Randy Shields comes to mind.

[Ambling Alp II]

Yeah, there are a ton of the. A couple off of the top of my head:

Louis-Farr
Duran-Lampkin

[gilgamesh]

Andre Ward had a pretty tough go of it with Sakio Bika. He clearly won don't get me wrong, but it was one of his tougher fights at 168.

[gilgamesh]

Michael Spinks had a particularly tough go of it with Eddie Davis

[Controversial]

I done a similar thread very recently

viewtopic.php?t=271322

[gilgamesh]

I done a similar thread very recently

viewtopic.php?t=271322

I remembered that one. I'll combine the 2 if you want. It's basically the same subject.

[Caractacus]

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