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Okay, bit of a trivial thread but I was thinking about this today.
I'm not talking about fights like Byrd-Little Klit II where everyone knew he was going to get his head punched in, cos Byrd seemed to actually believe he had a chance.
I'm talking about fights where as soon as you see the boxer entering the ring you can tell THEY JUST KNOW.
The most famous example of what I'm talking about is probably Floyd Patterson packing a disguise kit so he could leave without being seen if he lost to Liston. A fight where you can see in the fighter's eyes to their soul, and realise they know they can't win, or have been "got to", psychologically.
A recent example was Tarver-Jones II. When I saw Tarver enter you could see in his eyes not just confidence but absolute CERTAINITY. Then when I saw Roy and there were flickers of doubt in his eyes I thought "holy ****, this is the night where Roy loses."
Here's some more examples I can think of:
Bruno vs. Tyson II (though to be fair, Frank's not ******, it was pretty obvious he was gonna take a caning, wasn't it?)
Gatti vs. Mayweather
Lacy vs. Blow (Lacy reportedly had a dream that he was going to lose before the fight; I saw in his eyes during his ringwalk that he knew he was going to lose, and it wasn't just the crowd getting to him)
Rahman vs. Lewis II (on both sides)
I'm not talking about fights like Byrd-Little Klit II where everyone knew he was going to get his head punched in, cos Byrd seemed to actually believe he had a chance.
I'm talking about fights where as soon as you see the boxer entering the ring you can tell THEY JUST KNOW.
The most famous example of what I'm talking about is probably Floyd Patterson packing a disguise kit so he could leave without being seen if he lost to Liston. A fight where you can see in the fighter's eyes to their soul, and realise they know they can't win, or have been "got to", psychologically.
A recent example was Tarver-Jones II. When I saw Tarver enter you could see in his eyes not just confidence but absolute CERTAINITY. Then when I saw Roy and there were flickers of doubt in his eyes I thought "holy ****, this is the night where Roy loses."
Here's some more examples I can think of:
Bruno vs. Tyson II (though to be fair, Frank's not ******, it was pretty obvious he was gonna take a caning, wasn't it?)
Gatti vs. Mayweather
Lacy vs. Blow (Lacy reportedly had a dream that he was going to lose before the fight; I saw in his eyes during his ringwalk that he knew he was going to lose, and it wasn't just the crowd getting to him)
Rahman vs. Lewis II (on both sides)
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