Couldn't think of a better way to word the title, but it doesn't have to be an obscure fight, but just one that isn't as popular, well know, or maybe from an older era that definitely isn't discussed in today's scene.
Ruddock vs Morrison for me is one of my favorites. Standing 8 count sucks, as does the 3 knockdown rule, but it was a fantastic fight.
Jorge Arce vs Hussein Hussein I
Great, great fight. A little too one-sided IMO, but Lampley busting his load at the end of the fight made up for it and more.
Roy Jones: Jeff's stopping it.
Lampley: And JEFF FENECH STOPS THE FIGHT!
Beast.
If you don't like it, I'll eat my hat... although I'm not wearing one at the moment.
Katsidis Earl was a war... I can't remember what undercard it was on but, but I liked the Amonsot fight more.
It was the Hopkins-Wright undercard.
Oliveira-Phillips was a BEAST of a fight.
not obscure at all, but whenever we talk about the late diego corrales we talk about his fights with castillo or casamayor. how about his fight with freitas? just the fact that chico had arguably lost all the early rounds, yet never got frustrated or lost concentration. slowly and steadily he started getting to freitas, finally making him quit after dropping him 3 times. classic chico.
I liked that fight. It didn't have the most consistent action, but it was very intriguing and suspenseful. Freitas was doing well and winning more rounds, but Chico was subtly doing damage on the inside when they were up close. Eventually Popo got tired and Chico just brought on the damage.
I also liked Corrales's fight with Roberto Garcia. Excellent fight. The Justin Juuko one was pretty entertaining too.
I don't know if I'd call these "obscure", but I'll just say that aren't mentioned all that much on boxing forums. Maybe because a lot of them aren't recent.
William Caveman Lee-John LoCicero
Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad)-Richie Kates
Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad)-Marvin Johnson 1
Robert Quiroga-Kid Akeem Anifowoshe
Frankie Liles-Tim Littles 2
Ezra Sellers-Carl Thompson
Alex Arthur-Michael Gomez
Bobby Chacon-Cornelius Boza-Edwards 2: It seems that Chacon-Limon 4 is mentioned more, but they are pretty close IMO in how exciting they were. Chacon-Limon 4 had the better ending, for sure. It was similar to the end of Marquez-Vasquez 3.
Kevin Kelley-Derrick Gainer 1: Hamed-Kelley is mentioned more, and it was better, but Kelley-Gainer 1 was a very good fight as well.
Alejandro Gonzalez-Kevin Kelley
David Tua-Daniel Izon: Tua-Ibeabuchi gets more mention, but Tua-Izon was another excellent HW fight, with a better ending than Ike-Tua.
Michael Moorer-Bert Cooper: Because of this fight, I'm not even sure if Bowe-Holyfield 1 was the best HW fight of 1992. The skill level was obviously better in it, but Moorer-Cooper was very vicious.
I do have it. I could upload it if you want.
Mike McCallum was in quite a few good obscure fights. McCallum vs Toney, McCrory, Watson and Collins were all very good fights.
not obscure at all, but whenever we talk about the late diego corrales we talk about his fights with castillo or casamayor. how about his fight with freitas? just the fact that chico had arguably lost all the early rounds, yet never got frustrated or lost concentration. slowly and steadily he started getting to freitas, finally making him quit after dropping him 3 times. classic chico.
Kid Diamond against Huerta that was a pretty good scrap even though Huerta got robbed.
agreed. very good fight, and huerta did more than enough to win in my eyes.
Mahyar Mounshipour- Salim Medjkoune I and II
Somsak Sithchatchawal- Mahyar Mounshipour
Khaosai Galaxy- Cobra Ari Blanca: a fight back in 1990 that lasted two rounds longer than Hagler-Hearns but much more violent although it involved much smaller protagonists. The Japan-based Filipino, Blanca, floored Galaxy in the first round but the Thai Hall of Famer (inducted in 1999) ended the fight in the sixth with a single punch. The rounds in between were characterized by fierce, non-stop, give-and- take action.
Marquez v Austin. Hardly gets mentioned on any boxing site. Nice little battle. If you haven't seen it, try. One of the first times I seen Marquez fight and he's been a favorite ever since.
Blasphemy, there was nothing close about that fight. Soto blew Juarez out and the judge's scorecards were an absolute cock-sucking of Juarez. I remember it being on the undercard of Vargas' comeback and fight against Castillejo.
Either that or I'm crazy.
Yeah I felt Soto clearly won, but the scorecards were close so that's why I said it was close. Your right it was on the Vargas/Castillejo card.