What are some impressive wins by guys coming directly off a loss? (excluding rematches) Ie Morales vs Pacquiao, coming off the Barrera III loss Hopkins vs Tarver, coming off the Taylor loss Marquez vs Casamayor, coming off the Pacquiao loss Martinez vs Pavlik coming off the Williams 'loss' Charles vs Burley, coming off the Tureno loss Wallcott vs Maxim, coming off the Ray loss Holyfield vs Mercer after the Moorer loss Moore vs Bivens, coming off the Morrow loss Nearly Ray Mercer vs Lennox Lewis coming off the Holyfield loss
Cory Spinks beat Roman Karmazin after he was knocked out in the Judah rematch. Ricardo Mayorga beat Fernando Vargas following the DLH knockout. John Brown knocked out Gabe Ruelas after the Angel Manfred loss.
Froch beat seven shades of shit out of Abrabum after the Kessler loss. Wouldn't say it's a great win as Abraham is fucking awful, but alot of people liked him so fair play.
Edwin Rosario KO2 Livingstone Bramble - for the WBA title in his first fight after the close loss to Camacho.
I don't know if I'd call it a great win, but... Greg Page KO8 Gerrie Coetzee - For the WBA title after losing back to back fights to Witherspoon and Bey.
Thomas Hearns destroyed #1 contender James Shuler in the first round in his first fight back from the Hagler loss.
Vince Phillips knocking out Kostya Tszyu, coming off of a (disputed) loss to Romallis Ellis. Keith Mullings knocking out Terry Norris, coming off of a (disputed) loss to Raul Marquez.
The ending far exceeded the overall performance, but Foreman knocking out Moorer, coming off of the loss to Morrison in addition to 17 months of inactivity.
Good one. You could also say Gonzalez, who prior to that loss, stopped Irene Pacheco after he was KO'd by Israel Vazquez.
Dmitry Kirilov beat Jose Navarro the fight after he was on the losing end of the decision against Luis Perez.
It was his first major fight, but no, there were a few fights between then...Valbuena on the Jones-Harding undercard, Salud on the Hopkins-Echols II undercard the night before Trinidad-Vargas.
Here's one that tops Foreman's feat in terms of time elapsed... 37-year old Azumah Nelson, knocking out Gabe Ruelas in Dec. 95 to regain the 130 lb. title., coming off of a loss to Jesse James Leija, Here's the amazing part - also coming off of a 19-month layoff, and the loss (May 1994) preceded by a draw with Leija in their first fight eight months prior. His last prior win was Feb. 1993 - against Ruelas, in a disputed split decision, which means he went nearly three years between wins.
Was thinking about that, but Pacheco was a bit past it at that point. Vic ruined him for all others, not to mention that he was two divisions above his best weight when he fought Jhonny not Johnny
hopkins over pavlik after losing to calzaghe hopkins over tarver after losing to taylor juan diaz over katsidis, after losing to nate campbell vitaliy over kirk johnson, after losing to lennox glenn johnson over allan green, after losing to cloud maidana over ortiz after losing to kotelnik
