Floyd Mayweather Jr-Arturo Gatti
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Even Max Kellerman could see this one coming when before the fight he called it the biggest PPV mismatch since Lewis-Tyson. Never did you get the feeling that Gatti was going to be able to turn it on. The only thing that changed was the degree of visible effect Mayweather's punches were having on Gatti. Gatti was never able to make Mayweather miss, but who really expected that?
As Lampley said, "This is becoming increasingly difficult to watch." It sucks when a guy spends all of his energy making you hate him only to have him beat the daylights out of one of your favorite fighters."
Shaun George-Chris Byrd
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Everyone expected Byrd to return to 175 as some knockout artist, but a slap is a slap at any weight. After the first round knockdown it was plain to see that Byrd wasn't going to duck down and slip George's punches because they were too fast and too accurate. It was like an autopsy on a living body.
Rocky Marciano-Joe Louis
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This was a BS fight. I saw the scene in "Coming to America" when they were talking about this fight and it made me want to jump through the screen and yell, "Look at him, he was balding already!" Louis was old and spent by that time and should have stayed retired after the Walcott rematch. It was sad to see Louis falling out of the ring that way.
Floyd Mayweather Jr-Arturo Gatti
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Even Max Kellerman could see this one coming when before the fight he called it the biggest PPV mismatch since Lewis-Tyson. Never did you get the feeling that Gatti was going to be able to turn it on. The only thing that changed was the degree of visible effect Mayweather's punches were having on Gatti. Gatti was never able to make Mayweather miss, but who really expected that?
As Lampley said, "This is becoming increasingly difficult to watch." It sucks when a guy spends all of his energy making you hate him only to have him beat the daylights out of one of your favorite fighters."
Shaun George-Chris Byrd
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Everyone expected Byrd to return to 175 as some knockout artist, but a slap is a slap at any weight. After the first round knockdown it was plain to see that Byrd wasn't going to duck down and slip George's punches because they were too fast and too accurate. It was like an autopsy on a living body.
Rocky Marciano-Joe Louis
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This was a BS fight. I saw the scene in "Coming to America" when they were talking about this fight and it made me want to jump through the screen and yell, "Look at him, he was balding already!" Louis was old and spent by that time and should have stayed retired after the Walcott rematch. It was sad to see Louis falling out of the ring that way.
sturm vs odh. ocross dresser hoya got ridiculously pummeled and treated like a pure amatuer start to finish.
Jaidon Codrington v Sakio Bika
but I was expecting it to end at any second and kept yelling to my dad, "it's over!" when Jaidon would get tagged.
But he showed an immense amount of heart and they blasted each other for like 7 or 8 rounds. Intense.
Jones vs Hall...That was a brutal beating...Jones was hitting him at will with some flush shots...I literally felt bad for Hall on how his neck was snapping back from all of those right hand leads...IMO I think the ref. stopped the fight a little bit to late. Jones almost killed hall!:nonono:
Yeah patterson was a sitting duck, he had the injury coming into the ring that was a bad idea, Patterson in his prime with a good back would have been a much better fight.
I watched AKA Cassius Clay the other night and was thinking about the same thing. Patterson's upper body movement was nonexistent, which was a key component of the Cus D'Amato stalking-aggressive style. He had some sort of back injury which really inhibited his speed and movement.
D'Amato of course felt Patterson could have beaten him, but I think atleast it wouldn't have been one-sided.
It wasn't a broken back.... otherwise he'd be paralysed, he had back problems that cause he severe pain. Cus d'amato when talking about Ali's fights whilst Ali was in exile mention these problems and Ali said he was making excuses.
I did not mean that he had a broken back literally. But Patterson was clearly injured (they were massaging his back inbetween rounds!) and had a much better showing against Ali in their rematch when he was already 37 years old.
Patterson's bob & weave style would've always troubled Ali and he did do alright in the early rounds against Ali but could not sustain it for long with the injury.
The rematch.
Quiles-CAMPBELL
Beat me to it. I remember that fight last year. Campbell was beating the ever loving shit out him, but Quiles was so tough that kept going. It was hard to watch and even Teddy Atlas got out of his chair and took his headphones off to yell at the ref to stop the fight.
Floyd Patterson fighting Ali for 12 rounds with a broken back.
The last Robinson vs LaMotta fight is an obvious one, the end of the fight was painfully one-sided.
It wasn't a broken back.... otherwise he'd be paralysed, he had back problems that cause he severe pain. Cus d'amato when talking about Ali's fights whilst Ali was in exile mention these problems and Ali said he was making excuses.
the second bowe-golota fight. bowe was getting beat so bad it was pathetic. still makes me cringe when i watch the replays.
I thought they could have stopped the fight way earlier but i don't think they felt America was ready for a european heavyeweight Champion. Who knew the european wave of heavyweights were coming to take over the division.
I don't understand why people were saying Feliciano almost won a belt when it was clear to me that while Cintron technically looked garbage, he was still beating the living shit out of Feliciano. That was a very brutal fight for Feliciano.
Its cause Cintron was tiring in the later rounds. Feliciano got tko'd in his next fight and i have no doubt the Cintron fight had a lot to do with that. It was unbelivable to see Feliciano take shots like that very tough guy and showed a great chin.
Floyd Patterson fighting Ali for 12 rounds with a broken back.
The last Robinson vs LaMotta fight is an obvious one, the end of the fight was painfully one-sided.