greatest come backs of all time?

Kevin Kelley vs. Derrick Gainer, the first fight was simply amazing. Kelley had been down a few times, his left eye was closed and wasn't stopping any punches. Out of nowhere, Kelley landed a dramatic bailout left hand that dropped Gainer for the ten count. Still in my mind one of the greatest comebacks I ever saw. Arturo Gatti has been in so many comeback wins, its hard to list them all. His fight with Wilson Rodriguez was my favorite. Gatti, his eyes swollen shut and down early, fights his way back into the fight and lands a thunderous left hook that dropped Rodriguez for the ten count. If you want to see a comeback so unexpected its hard to understand it, watch Jorge Castro's comeback against John David Jackson. Castro was cut badly over both eyes and was just taking a fearsome beating. Jackson started to fuck around landing pitty pat shots, then out of nowhere Castro lands a vicious left hook that deposited Jackson on the canvas. Jackson was out of it, and went down two more times before the ref stopped the fight. I believe that won for knockout of the year, I think in 1994.

foreman vs moorer foreman was losing the fight badly then his power told and moorer was out!!

Yeah im really still high after the choi fight, and Lando was winning the fight before the stoppage. I was really shocked back then. I remember bobby chacon destroying Limon after this fightLimon faced Choi after that Navarette fight and TKO'd the Korean in the 7th. He again had to come from behind as Choi was leading on all scorecards right up to the time of the stoppage. The Navarette, Choi and Chacon (the fourth and last) fights were all in 1982. In my initial post on this thread, I had that fourth Chacon encounter as one of the incredible comebacks I can recall. Limon floored Chacon twice (4th and 10th) and needed two points to win. He got those two points by knocking Limon down as the final bell sounded. Limon rose but lost by UD15. That 4th meeting was, in my view, the best of the four great meetings of the two. It was declared The Ring's Fight of the Year-1982. It was also the last WBC fifteen-round title fight. All WBC title fights were thereafter limited to 12. One of the judges was a Filipino, Carlos Padilla, who was the only judge who saw it in favor of Chacon by two points. The others had Chacon winning by a solitary point.

Hello there buddy! You did too? That loss to Bazooka? That must have been really painful. :o Yeah im really still high after the choi fight, and Lando was winning the fight before the stoppage. I was really shocked back then. I remember bobby chacon destroying Limon after this fight

Ive watched that too. :(Hello there buddy! You did too? That loss to Bazooka? That must have been really painful. :o

Ive watched that too. :(

Damn you're really a genius in this sport buddy. You reminded me of a lot of lost memories in just a short write up. :) As I was saying I was too young then to rememebr all the details now I got it back into my head. :p Thanks, peace!Just an old boxing-batty fan, buddy.:o Glad to provoke some good memories for you! Any time, pal! Great talking to ya!:)

In all of boxing history, though, probably the most celebrated comeback from calamity was Archie Moore knocking out Yvon Durelle in the 11th round after being dropped three times in round one by the French-Canadian slugger — one of them a "fight's over" type of knockdown with Ancient Archie flat on his back. Johnathon Banks has now joined the ranks of fighters whose inspiring efforts of will enabled them to win when all seemed lost. He is in good — in the case of Archie Moore, exalted — company.At age 44, Moore had no business coming back from the mat four times in the first five rounds, said most people. Not only that, he had no right to inflict three KDs of his own on the French-Canadian after having been floored that number of times, they added. But such was "The Ole Mongoose." With the KO of Durelle, Moore registered the 127th stoppage of his career and eclipsed the all-time record he and Young Stribling had shared. That was quite a come-back indeed. But here's another one from about the same era (19 years earlier): Lightheavyweight legend Billy Conn bewildered All-Time great Joe Louis for 12 rounds and most of the 13th with his speed and combinations at the Polo Grounds. Seeing that Louis was getting easier to hit, Conn moved in to finish the job. But before he could pull the trigger, Louis launched one of his own bombs. Conn was counted out with only two seconds remaining in the 13th.

an article about great comebacks, from fightwriter dot com JULY 31: Every so often a fighter rallies from a situation where defeat seems certain, and such was the case in last week's Wednesday Night Fights thriller when Johnathon Banks came back from two first-round knockdowns to knock out the more experienced Eliseo Castillo in the fourth. It looked all over for the unbeaten but untested Detroit cruiserweight after that initial three minutes — a most unpleasant welcome to the higher level of competition. Yet the way that Banks came back in the second round with an "OK, now it's my turn" attitude seemed, surprisingly, to intimidate Castillo — and once Banks had his legs back under him he was able to do what he does best, which is to force back and hurt the other man. Banks's coolness in a crisis impressed me. He had the presence of mind to hang on after getting caught: it was one of those situations in which a fighter who has been dropped knows what is happening but temporarily has lost control of his legs. Referee Eddie Cotton recognised what was going on and gave Banks the chance to get himself back together — some referees, I think, might have been tempted to dive in. Emanuel Steward's calmness in the corner at the end of the round was of course commendable and born of many years of experience. There was not a trace of panic. The message he gave to Banks, from what I could gather, was essentially: "You did very well to hold on, now let's go to work just like you do it in the gym." Banks did just that. There have been many other fights where I thought a boxer was in so much trouble that he could not possibly fight his way back. One of them also involved an Emanuel Steward fighter — Michael Moorer. When Moorer went down from Smokin' Bert Cooper's opening-moments barrage he looked absolutely out of the fight. Yet Moorer not only dragged himself up, he managed to drop Cooper heavily before the first round was over — and he went on to win in the fifth after having to survive another knockdown along the way. Michael Grant was very game against Andrew Golota in battling back from an awful opening round in which he was dropped twice. There were tough rounds ahead, with Golota landing the right hand time and again, but Grant would not quit and simply by staying on his feet and keeping in the fight he managed to break Golota's will. Yet in that first round it was touch-and-go whether Grant would even last the first three minutes, let alone win the fight. Richard Hall was dropped badly in the first round by the ill-fated bomber Julian Letterlough — one of those "falling apart" knockdowns. I thought it would all be over in the second, and so it was — but with Letterlough getting blasted as Hall mounted an astonishing fight-back. Juan Manuel Marquez's uphill struggle to earn a draw after the three first-round knockdowns he suffered against Manny Pacquiao was remarkable. Nigel Benn, sent through the ropes in the first round in his ultimately tragic fight with Gerald McClellan, will admit that he wondered if he could go on, even though he actually managed to hurt the rampaging McClellan right at the end of the round. Benn’s late cornerman, Dennie Mancini, found the right words of inspiration by yelling, in essence: "You've taken the best he can throw at you — the fight's yours!" And who can forget Arturo Gatti’s miraculous recovery against Wilson Rodriguez? Gatti was down in the second and his right eye started to swell and close in the same round. In the third round, the HBO commentator Jim Lampley remarked: “It’s hard to imagine that Gatti can last much longer.” Gatti not only lasted into the sixth, he knocked out Rodriguez in that round. In all of boxing history, though, probably the most celebrated comeback from calamity was Archie Moore knocking out Yvon Durelle in the 11th round after being dropped three times in round one by the French-Canadian slugger — one of them a "fight's over" type of knockdown with Ancient Archie flat on his back. Johnathon Banks has now joined the ranks of fighters whose inspiring efforts of will enabled them to win when all seemed lost. He is in good — in the case of Archie Moore, exalted — company.

Heya there pal! You're correct, Navarette was well on the way to retaining his WBC Jr. Lightweight crown at the start of the 12th. But as the last seconds of the 12th ticked away, Limon caught Rolando with about a dozen consecutive punches (some reports, particularly, The New York Times, counted 13 "straight punches"). Navarette replied in some kind and it was that, added to the fact that he was apparently leading on points (by 2 in one scorecard and 4 in the others), which prevented the ref from intervening at that stage. The final punch however made Navarette fall as the final bell sounded. He was not saved. Under the rules (the fight was in Vegas), a fighter cannot be saved by the bell in any round except the final round. The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds. Limon was declared KO winner; he regained the belt he had lost to Boza Edwards from whom Navarette won the title as a late substitute for Limon (in an aborted return match; Limon failed to make it to the rematch due to injury sustained in training.) I am knocking myself now for forgetting this fight as one of the incredible come-backs I saw.:o I now also recall that in a fight immediately preceding the one described above, Navarette figured in a thrilling open-air contest in the Philippines (the Rizal Ballpark in Manila?) against a Korean named Choi Chung Il. I still vividly recall Navarette scrambling to the ropes on his knees after having been KD'd in the fifth. With the help of the strands, he rose to his feet as the bell sounded. Choi's camp later complained that the bell had rung too early, preventing Choi from finishing the job. In the 10th Navarette floored Choi then ended the fight in the 11th. A lot of Filipino journalists wrote the following day that they "pissed in their pants" in the 5th round!:D By the way, Navarette avenged his loss to Bazooka some five years later, in a fight in Manila. He KD'd Limon in the second on the way to a UD win. There was no title at stake and the fight was at Jr. Welter (Navarette- about 136; Limon -about 139lbs).

That was awesome.True. Blood everywhere on both fighters at the end.

Not ranked; just some incredible comebacks that I remember: Kennedy McKinney - Welcome Ncita. Leading on points, Ncita forced MicKinney to take a knee in the 11th. But only seconds later, McKinney springs off the ropes and connects with a straight right that dumped the African on the mat for the full count. Bobby Chacon- Bazooka Limon 4. Going into the final round Chakon needed two points to win. He got it by flooring Limon right before the final bell sounded. Matthew Franklin - Marvin Johnson. By the end of the 5th, Franklin was cut over both eyes and bleeding from the nose and mouth. He later confessed he was barely able to see anything, much less Johnson. He launched his comeback in the 6th and completed it in the 8th. Sugar Ray Leonard- Thomas Hearns. Behind on points and squinting through a badly swollen left eye, Leonard dropped Hearns in the 13th and again in the 14th, the latter for the stoppage. Mike Weaver- John Tate. Though "Hercules" was better sculpted, Tate towered over him and was bigger. Tate dominated and was way ahead on all score cards, both official and unofficial. Then, came 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the 15th and final round. Weaver caught Tate near the ropes with a punch that felled the latter like the proverbial oak tree. Face first.

Benn was a very good boxer when he settled down and boxed, his lateral movement would of caused anybody problems. His defense was pretty poor? Yeah, the wilder 87-90 Benn. Not the mature Benn. If against Jones though he said he'd just throw everything at him non-stop, and he'd land something. Benn KO Jones, no question. What a retarted statement. Boxer beats the brawler.

i think benn vs jones would of been so one sided if it was a prime vs prime fight. jones wouldnt of got hit even close to enough to get knocked out and would of landed hundreds of shots on benn if benn stayed on his feet long enough. benn was exciting but he wasnt a very good boxer and his defense was pretty poor. 8rd ko for jones would be my pick. too fast, too powerful, too smart

HAvent read through this thread yet but so far havent seen JCC vs Taylor, 2 seconds left in the last round! I nearly puke everytime I see that round!

Well obviously Chico vs Castillo I but I wouldn't be so boring to post that. That's if you discount Chico's ruthless cheating with his mouthguard. Hes a professional! And showed his experience in spitting out the mouthgaurd to get more recovery time!Its not cheating, its crafty!

the greatest comeback would be: for 12 rounds he was dominated, then hit his opponent on a one punch KO to win in 12rds. never heard anything like this in boxing. :) That's what happened in the McCline/Boswell fight.

McCline/Boswell.

The crazy shit is that it was only 5 months later. Benn has no heart.

There was still talk of Jones/Benn after Benn lost to Malinga, Arum was going to put it on in the summer ('96). But I think the Malinga beating was one too many (well, the McClellan one was one too many but this was just the icing on the cake - he looked pathetic against Collins). Hey what do you think Benn would've been like if he trained with Kevin Rooney?