Fighters that have been involved in 3 or more great fights

Carbajal Chiquita 1 and 2
Chiquita Sorjaturong
Carbajal Arce

 

Marcellus Johnson vs raton jiminez, rafael marquez 1, leon salazar

 

I'm sure you guys are realizing that it is much harder than you would first think to find THREE great fights on any one fighter's resume.

 

Mosley fight had a very good closing round but other than that it was just steady action but nothing dramatic.

The Trinidad fight was a bore.

Quartey was a very good fight but just short of great. I agree that the Vargas fight was great.

 

DeLa-Mosley I is Rewatchable, but Like You Said, it Falls SHORT of "Great"...

No Way in Hell was Dela-Trinidad "Great"...If Not for Floyd-Pac, This MIGHT Be the Most UNDERwhelming "Big" Fight in Boxing History...SAFETY 1st Fight that DeLa COASTED In, Only to Lose on the Cards, When He Appeared to have WON Rather Clearly...

DeLa-Quartey Possessed 2-3 "Great" Rounds (the 6th-7th, if Memory Serves, and the 12th), but the Rest Fell Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay SHORT of the Mark...

DeLa-Vargas was Definitely CLOSE to Being Great...Closer in that Regard than DeLa-Mosley Was, in REED's Opinion...

All That Being Said, DeLa Does NOT have 3 or More "Great" Fights on his Ledger...





REED:mj:

 

[video=youtube;u1N3gbuSaXI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N3gbuSaXI[/video]

Probably a Tad Tooooooooooooo 1-Sided to Rate as a "Great" Fight, but VERY Good, Nonetheless...

Tommy was EXPLOSIVE yet VULNERABLE, a Recipe for Good/Great Fights...


REEDopcorn:

 

I can't believe I forgot Carl Thompson. The guy was in some fantastic fights (Eubank 1, Sellers, Rothmann, Haye)

 

Nigel Benn- Logan, Barkley, Eubank 1, McClellan, Watson, Gent.

 

The first Barkley fight was pretty awesome.

 

Good call.

 

Benn-Dewitt was also a very good scrap.

 

5 Defeats (3 Knockouts)

I'd say we know where to look for his 3 great fights.

 

I love the Gent fight.

 

calling Thompson a great is not even stretching it, it's completely denaturing the sens of the word

 

Srl vs Hearns and Hagler weren't exciting action fights at all. I've tried to show people Leonard-Hearns and they asked me to turn it off after a while. It's actually very tedious and monotonous for most of the way.

 

The 1st fight was the only "great" one.

 

Mosley-DLH was definitely a great fight.

 

sorjaturong - gonzalez was a great fight

 

Yeah, definitely. I was talking about the Gonzo-Carbajal fights.

 

A "great" fight isn't always action packed (although it usually is). Leonard-Hearns 1 wasn't constant action but it was nevertheless great. What made it great was the ebb and flow, the change of traditional roles and the desperation come from behind TKO finish. The fight itself was a great story even though not all pages were action packed.

 

It's an "epic" fight, and a great fight to see as it happened. But you said something about "exciting" in your opening post and it's a boring fight. "Great" fights have replay value and Hearns took that away when he started out boxing Leonard.There wasn't even really that much ebb and flow.

 

The second is a great fight if you are a Humberto fan. The commentary was so biased against him.

 

Hearns out boxed Leonard early, Leonard badly shaking hearns in the 6th and 7th and bullying him around teh ring...Hearns coming back and dominating Leonard 8-12, Leonard coming back in 13 like a man possessed and beating him up from pillar to post and continuing that through the 14th which leads to teh TKO. If that isn't ebb and flow I don't know what is.

 

There's like 3 shifts of momentum and a shitload of posing and feinting. Hearns "dominating" Leonard is boring as fuck and takes all the drama out of it as an action fight.

 

I don't think it is possible to disagree more about every subject as I do with Terp

 

I may be living proof that it is.

 

Great shout actually.

 

WORD! The Flushing Flash was in some really good fights back in his day and fought a laundry list of champions and ex champions.

 

Duran (Dejesus, Leonard, Hagler)