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  • Ryn0
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    Boxers that aren't so much Boxers but Fighters

    Fighters that are all out warriors, they aren't particularly smart (apart from a few exceptions) but they are warriors and even with a loss will demand you're respect.
    Fighters that when they get hit feel they have been insulted and demand that he hit you twice as hard or twice as many times.

    Name as many as you like:
    Tye Fields
    Gatti
    Ward
    Haye
    Calzaghe (especially considering how he responding to being hurt)
    Margarito
    Corrales
    Glen Johnson


    If you can name fights past and recent with these type of fighters:
    Vazquez - Marquez 1,2 and 3
    Castillo-Corrales 1
    Gatti-Ward
    Holyfield-Bowe (The one where i think Holyfield pukes in the middle of a round and carries on fighting)
    etc..
  • I AM...
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    Gatti-Ward 1,2,3
    Holyfield-Bowe 1,2,3
    Barerra-Morales 1,2,3
    Haye...especially in his last round against Giacobbe Fragomeni
    And they are really trilogies but how the guys reacted in them is why i put wrote them down

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    • boxing_great
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      #3
      jorge arce

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      • boxing_great
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        • Silencers
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          #5
          Michael Katsidis
          Carmen Basilio
          Gene Fullmer
          Ray Mancini
          Ricardo Mayorga

          I think Juan Diaz qualifies.

          Aaron Pryor loved to fight but could box real well same goes for Morales, I guess the same can be said about Vargas.

          Terry Norris loved to brawl but was a very good boxer, brawling sometimes cost him fights he should've won easily.
          Last edited by Silencers; 05-03-2008, 09:00 AM.

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          • squealpiggy
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            Gatti was an accomplished amateur and starts out every single fight as a boxing match. Haye is very quick and accurate and spends his time setting his opponent up for the right hand. Calzaghe is hard to land clean punshes on and relies more on making adjustments than on out and out aggression. Glen Johnson is a good boxer. All of those guys have the same reaction to getting hurt in that they stop boxing and start fighting, but they all start out boxing.

            If I had to name a boxer who was a fighter first it would be Edison Miranda.

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            • Ryn0
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              Hearns he got drawn into war to easily in fights he could've won easily had he fought smart and used his jab but that's what made him so exciting.

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              • Silencers
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                #8
                Marvin Hagler when he was in his destruct and destroy mindset.

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                • ~Lucky13~
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                  pavlik is a little bit of a street fighter
                  whenever he gets hit, he doesn't take a step back or anything, it looks as if he gets pissed and wants revenge at the very same moment

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                  • Ryn0
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by silencers98
                    Marvin Hagler when he was in his destruct and destroy mindset.
                    I was about to say, man was a monster when he put his mind to it.

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