Sounds like David Haye audience. How did you feel about the audience at the Arreola vs Vitali fight? So was Sanders.
Ah yes. The Boycott. What a coincidence it was precipitated by an 8 round slugfest involving two non-Yanks of dubious tone.
This. Tito had a 3 pt round in round 1, then won round 2. Vargas won round 3, then got a 3 point rounf in round 4. He then ron the 5th round, in one of the best rounds he ever fought in his career. during that 5th round and heading into the 6th, it looked as if the fight had completely swung the other way. 6th and 7th rounds were competitive, then tito took over from that point on. i strongly disagree with almost all the fights on this thread. Gatti-Ward 3 qualifies, as well as Holyfield-Tyson. i didn't know that vitali-sanders was ever called a great fight.
Did you voice your opinion in Beaver Pelt Monthly? Don't worry about it Steve. I am sure that Golden Smile will be wiped, eventually.
Vargas would've beaten Trinidad, IMO, had it not been for Tito's illegal wraps. Of course, without his illegal wraps, ODH would've knocked Tito out, and the fight never would've happened. You could argue Trinidad would not even have beaten Campas had he not had illegal wraps. Yes.
Having not caught it until a good three years after the fact, I was bitterly disappointed with the excitement levels in Ibeabuchi-Tua.
Hearns was really only in it for the first minute or so of the first round. After that the cuts were what kept his chances good, as he had already broken his hand by then. Still, very entertaining, and more to the point, it was very well shot. Some of the camera angles were terrific.
Holyfied-Tyson I most certainly tops my list. The thing about Gatti-Ward III... for whatever reasion, The Ring was in a hurry to name it their FOTY, yet it didn't even make the voting ballot (Top 5) for the BWAA year-end categories (Toney-Jirov won, for what it's worth).
I agree with Foreman-Lyle. Perhaps it was overhyped because when seeing it LIVE the drama was crazy. But a recorded version of the fight just reveals two sloppy fighters swinging madly and Flopping to the canvas a couple times. Hagler-Hearns is an overrated fight as well...but let me clarify. Round 1 is not overrated at all. GREAT GREAT round. No doubt. But that was it. Round 2 is forgettable and round 3 is the knockout. It wasn't three rounds of action like people try to pretend it is. It was ONE intense round...and then a mediocre round and a half before an electric finish. Tua-Ibeabuchi was overrated also.
Disagree. GREAT FIGHT!!!!! I've never watched a live fight with that much intense edge of your seat drama. It has great rewatchable value also. I hear you to a certain extend though in that after 9 rounds it was basically all Trinidad...but the first 9 rounds were competitve.
Nah. That was very good too...but it didn't have the crazy intensity of Tito-Vargas. I was shaking like a leaf in the Tito/Vargas fight...edge of my seat throughout the entire thing. It lived up to all the hype.
only a matter of time, all good things come to an end, then the title will return to your steel-factory-less shores, and The States Will Rise Again. :love::love: In the meantime, however, you will just have to keep hawking those "SKINS" tops to kids who don't know any fucking better.
:say: I think you might deserve an entry in one of your own threads in TAAA....."Shaking like a leaf"....you LOON:scared:
Enoch Powell used to give speeches on people being mad. Gotta watch out for that Sly, gotta watch out for that.
word. Toe to toe all the way....serious drama in round 12 which Manny Stewart captured perfectly "Oh..HE'S HURT..HE'S HURT...oh my God" dude almost had a coronary...
I have to say, Toney-Jirov might actually be one of the most underrated fights of at least recent time. I suppose most great cruiserweight fights not involving prime Holyfield tend to fall in this category.
