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There are only 4 that pop to mind for me, and 2 of them I have had to wait until recently to see.
First was Jorge Paez. As much as loved the way he fought (he's still active, and I hope he retires at 100 bouts), and even though I know he grew up in the circus as a clown, he should have left the clowning in the 3 Ring, not brought it to the square one.
I wish I could remember who the fighter was who did it, but Paez had a habit of leaning back against the ropes, feigning that he was hurt, and when the guy started to step in, he would nail him wth a wide, wild right.
This one fighter (I keep thinking it was Rueles, but I'm not sure) feinted like he was going in, when Paez swung, he half-stepped back, then swung straight and hard over Paez's overextended right, bounced him off the ropes and deposited him straight on his face. It didn't end the fight, but Paez eventually lost by TKO.
Second was Nasim Hamed. It was his ring entrances that made me hate him. I don't watch fights to see someone spending 20 minutes coming into the ring on a "flying" carpet. Barrera became my favorite fighter overnight by fighting that match perfectly and exposing Hamed as the idiot he was.
Third was Jones. He had a lot of flash, and was a genuinely accomplished middelweight, but when the cries of rematch started coming against sone people he had beat early in their careers, he fled to the less-talented super-middleweight division, eventually settling into the light-heavyweight division, where there was such a dearth of talet, he could reside for years without having to face anyone who might be able to challenge him, and allow him to crow too loudly about how he was the greatest fighter who ever lived.
The sheer pleasure I took from that one-punch knockout was almost ******ic. I think the Johnson loss was a result of that punch, because it made him question his own chin. Had he fought without hesitation, he would have beaten Johnson handily, but his confidence was robbed in that single, hard punch.
The last is Oscar. I think that Oscar definitely had some talent, but he was handed a few decisions along the way to anhance his career and because he was considered "good" for boxing because he was pretty and well-spoken.
I actually had him winning against Trinidad by 1 point, but didn't crow when he lost the decision because I'm a big believer in Karma.
When he went down on the canvas against Hopkins and started pounding his fists on the canvas I actually laughed. I thought it was definitely Karma coming to bite him on the ass for that decision he accepted over Sturm, who beat him like a little girl for almost that entire fight and danced away at the end of every round so DLH couldn't go into his patented last 5 second, round-stealing, pit-a-pat "flurries".
Justice had been meted out.
In the words of the great Johnny Richards, "Flame On!"
First was Jorge Paez. As much as loved the way he fought (he's still active, and I hope he retires at 100 bouts), and even though I know he grew up in the circus as a clown, he should have left the clowning in the 3 Ring, not brought it to the square one.
I wish I could remember who the fighter was who did it, but Paez had a habit of leaning back against the ropes, feigning that he was hurt, and when the guy started to step in, he would nail him wth a wide, wild right.
This one fighter (I keep thinking it was Rueles, but I'm not sure) feinted like he was going in, when Paez swung, he half-stepped back, then swung straight and hard over Paez's overextended right, bounced him off the ropes and deposited him straight on his face. It didn't end the fight, but Paez eventually lost by TKO.
Second was Nasim Hamed. It was his ring entrances that made me hate him. I don't watch fights to see someone spending 20 minutes coming into the ring on a "flying" carpet. Barrera became my favorite fighter overnight by fighting that match perfectly and exposing Hamed as the idiot he was.
Third was Jones. He had a lot of flash, and was a genuinely accomplished middelweight, but when the cries of rematch started coming against sone people he had beat early in their careers, he fled to the less-talented super-middleweight division, eventually settling into the light-heavyweight division, where there was such a dearth of talet, he could reside for years without having to face anyone who might be able to challenge him, and allow him to crow too loudly about how he was the greatest fighter who ever lived.
The sheer pleasure I took from that one-punch knockout was almost ******ic. I think the Johnson loss was a result of that punch, because it made him question his own chin. Had he fought without hesitation, he would have beaten Johnson handily, but his confidence was robbed in that single, hard punch.
The last is Oscar. I think that Oscar definitely had some talent, but he was handed a few decisions along the way to anhance his career and because he was considered "good" for boxing because he was pretty and well-spoken.
I actually had him winning against Trinidad by 1 point, but didn't crow when he lost the decision because I'm a big believer in Karma.
When he went down on the canvas against Hopkins and started pounding his fists on the canvas I actually laughed. I thought it was definitely Karma coming to bite him on the ass for that decision he accepted over Sturm, who beat him like a little girl for almost that entire fight and danced away at the end of every round so DLH couldn't go into his patented last 5 second, round-stealing, pit-a-pat "flurries".
Justice had been meted out.
In the words of the great Johnny Richards, "Flame On!"
Gran Campeon
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