BoxRec

Inspired by the Off-Topic film thread of the same premise. Name the last fight you watched, in its entirety, from start-to-finish.

Me = Carbajal-Gonzalez I

Define entirety. Does it count if you missed a few seconds at the beginning of a round when you went to take a leak?

Just watched a 1989 scrap between Matthew Hilton and Tim Williams. Hilton moving up from 154 after losing is IBF title to Robert Hines and trying to come back at 160. He gasses out early like he did against Hines, doesn't throw a meaningfull punch in rounds 6-7-8-9 and is behind on points entering the 10th against journeyman Williams, whose best scraps were a draw with Robbie Simms and a win over Alex Ramos.
He rocks and knocks down Williams who gets up but wobbles all over the place. Richard Steele stops the fight without looking at him in the eyes. Williams complains, but just like Zab Judah would later learn, chicken dancing doesn't impress referees. TKO 10 for Matthew Hilton in a boring affair.

Watched Holyfield/Qawi I and II a few days ago on ESPN. Great stuff.

Andries v Harding I - very under rated fight

Emerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:Andries v Harding I - very under rated fight

top fight that one harding is one tuff bloke

Holyfield-Foreman. Women involved with boxing

Lenny McLean V Roy Shaw

Saw some debate between Goodnight Irene and Evander on the greatest performance of all time thread so downloaded Jones Jr v Pazienza to my ipod and watched today at work.
Technically a brilliant performance by Jones, but against a man who started at LW?
As good as Jones looked, can't help thinking it would have been even better if it was a legitimate SM in the other corner (although Paz looked pretty strong physically).
Was this the fight were Paz used the 'Cappuccino high' excuse?

Berto-Collazo

dajuggernaut wrote:Berto-Collazo

Who won, as you saw it?

bollox wrote:Lenny McLean V Roy Shaw

Was it the one where he stomped him out afterwards?

tzyuforever wrote:

bollox wrote:Lenny McLean V Roy Shaw

Was it the one where he stomped him out afterwards?

No, this was (I think) their third fight where McLean Ko'd Shaw inside a round. Shaw took a massive number of clean hit at the end

I've seen bouts of both McLean and Shaw against separate opponents where they stomped their opponents. McLean was headbutted by one opponent during the instructions to a fight so he pummeled him with both fists and feet. The Shaw stomping was unprovoked. He was severely fired up and KO'd the guy in about 20 seconds and just kept going. Not pretty to watch

Larry Holmes V Mike Weaver, 1979.
Great scrap. Enjoyed every minute.

Calzahge-Lacy a few days ago.8)

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john murry - lee mcallister

Casamayor-Marquez. Great job from the former Featherweight king, working his way through Casamayor's forest of trickery & defense to outclass, & then stop, the veteran champion.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

dajuggernaut wrote:Berto-Collazo

Who won, as you saw it?

I didn't score it but just by the looks I think Collazo edged him. Have no problem with giving it to Berto though. I seen people calling it a robbery on the current scene. That word is thrown around way too much.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:Casamayor-Marquez. Great job from the former Featherweight king, working his way through Casamayor's forest of trickery & defense to outclass, & then stop, the veteran champion.

--- Stoppage being relative to the ref in charge of keeping the money in play.

If you just watched the fight, must of had your eyes closed to miss the concern that the fight was so close that there would be yet another scoring travesty as is becoming the rule in boxing. 2 legit KDs with seconds left in the late round don't equate to legit KO. Marquez has pop, but not enough to KO Casa in any fair contest. Casa was pinned down by the ref to prevent his beating the count.

Santa Cruz did 10X the job on Casa but lacks power and the legacy of going against Manny, so we won't hold our breath waiting for you to promote Santa since he looks like Frankenstein, pays like Jack Benny, and will never be in the queue to fight Manny.

In the interest of staying on topic, I last watched Alexeev/Ramirez thanks to a forum member providing the link. Alexeev says his trainer stopped the bout he had a shutout in save the last minute. Interesting if true since he didn't protest, but boxing funny that way.

Uh-huh. I believe it was your words regarding the Holmes-Esch knockdown which so pointedly spelled out the situation --- "Deal with it." Marquez stopped Casamayor, outclassing him in the second half of the fight, & finishing the dazed champion off in the eleventh. Three words, m'man

Goodnight, Irene wrote:Uh-huh. I believe it was your words regarding the Holmes-Esch knockdown which so pointedly spelled out the situation --- "Deal with it." Marquez stopped Casamayor, outclassing him in the second half of the fight, & finishing the dazed champion off in the eleventh. Three words, m'man

--- Actually, that was Manny stopping Marquez in the 2nd fight, outclassing him midrounds, & finishing the dazed champion off.

Tony Weeks bullrushed the defenseless Marquez and smothered him after he rose from the KD to be knocked hanging from the ropes with seconds left in the round.........lessee, gotta get that time, so hang on........here it comes..............wait, that ain't 250lb Weeks in there........why it's Skinny Kenny Bayless and he let's Marquez finish the rd without calling the KD and let's him wobble his way around the ring back to his corner!

Whoa.......now I gotta rewrite history........wait.......history already rewritten at Marquez fanboy club........here tis>>>>>>>""Marquez whipped the 7 Sundays out of John, Casa, Manny and Barrera and had Morales fleeing in terror anytime Marquez's name brought up. The great JCChavez even dropped a brick upon glimpsing baby Marquez for the first time.""

Great, I'll just copy the above and regurgitate and toss a birthday party for Marquez anytime his name crops up. Happy Days indeed!

Yawn. This, "discussion" is done.

Dokes v Coetzee. Very entertaining fight, first time I seen it.
I love the way Coetzee went berserk after winning, I don't remember seeing anyone show that kind of emotion on winnning a belt in recent memory, it's plain that it meant more than money to the guy. I guess at this stage the WBA strap was only a short way down the road of devaluation.
- I am starting to see the 80's as a relative golden age of fun heavyweight fights.
Could not help getting excited ( ) when Merchant asked Gerrie about a fight with Holmes. I'm guessing Larry's anti-apartheid beliefs got in the way? Shame, would seem like a small scale version of the Schmeling-Nazi situation.
Seen a few of Gerries fights now, and I like the guy. If anyone here knows, what was he talking about when he was telling Merchant that he tried to meet with Holmes in Atlantic City or something, and would not elaborate, said 'I'll tell you later'.

witherspoon wrote: - I am starting to see the 80's as a relative golden age of fun heavyweight fights.
Could not help getting excited ( ) when Merchant asked Gerrie about a fight with Holmes. I'm guessing Larry's anti-apartheid beliefs got in the way? Shame, would seem like a small scale version of the Schmeling-Nazi situation.
Seen a few of Gerries fights now, and I like the guy. If anyone here knows, what was he talking about when he was telling Merchant that he tried to meet with Holmes in Atlantic City or something, and would not elaborate, said 'I'll tell you later'.

--- Holmesy was already getting too big to keep his ever expanding butte in big enough britches.

Check out Coetzee/Snipes. Gerrie whips the seven Sundays out of Snipes and is robbed on the cards. We know who Holmesy picked for his next fight and still almost got his clock cleaned.

Thank goodness Tyson came along and cleaned King, Larry and the whole lot out of the division, well, at least until King fronts Givens and her witchy mom to sink their fangs into Tyson.

BroughtonRulesRefuge wrote:Check out Coetzee/Snipes. Gerrie whips the seven Sundays out of Snipes and is robbed on the cards. We know who Holmesy picked for his next fight and still almost got his clock cleaned.

Thanks a whole bunch mukka, I was going to watch that one next and I didn't know the result.

I think you should edit that post to make things right :
WARNING : MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS