Great Fights you never hear anyone talk about

Just discuss fights that have kind of flown under the radar but were really top notch, I figure those who haven't seen a particular fight will have an incentive to seek it out

Here's a few that inspired this thread in the first place:

Mando Ramos W10 Sugar Ramos 8-6-70 ... Mando Ramos was a few months removed from losing one of the lightweight titles to Ismael Laguna, who had badly outboxed him and cut him to ribbons to take the title. In a semi-crossroads fight, he was matched against former Featherweight kingpin Sugar Ramos, who was in the midst of a comeback. The fight was action-packed with the quicker, younger Mando getting clearly the better of it with his handspeed and a variety of sharp one-twos, though he suffered a terrible cut over his left eye (he was a bleeder) ... in the mid rounds, the old veteran mounted a serious rally, hammering the younger man with hooks and uppercuts and hurting him badly but Mando Ramos survived and the two duked it out back and forth down the stretch... It's a superb fight, watch it if you get a chance... big hometown crowd for Mando, a lot of noise

Paulie Ayala W12 Bones Adams 8-4-01 ... perhaps because Adams never really did anything of value after this, and because Ayala (the recipent of several really questionable decisions, including this one) was never well-liked by boxing nuts, this bout tends to be forgotten. Those of you who saw it remember it well, though... It's a tremendous fight with lots of action and skill... Ayala, who wanted for power generally, even stunned Adams badly early in the bout, but "Bones" boxed brilliantly down the stretch and probably should have gotten the decision. Either way, it's a great fight

Victor Galindez KO15 Richie Kates 5-15-76 ... The champion had all kinds of difficulty with Kates and suffered a terrible cut... THough, it would turn out that he was actually ahead on points, the outcome looked in doubt when a frenzied and bloodied Galindez stopped Kates at 2:59 of the 15th round (no, that is not a typo)

Saman Sorjaturong TKO7 Chiquita Gonzalez 7-15-95 ... An epic fight, almost as good as Gonzalez's legendary first fight with Michael Carbajal... Gonzalez was in command for most of this fight and in the 6th the remarkably game Thai challenger seemed on the verge of being finished... He came out firing in the 7th and knocked Gonzalez all over the ring for the come-from-behind stoppage in a bloodbath... It won fight of the year but because of the weightclass, It tends to get ignored

Simon Brown TKO14 Tyrone Trice 4-23-88 ... This is an incredible fight... Trice had command in the first half of the fight and Brown came on later... loads of fevered exchanges, both guys hurt at various times... It came down to stamina... Brown kept firing in the 14th on a visibly exhausted Trice... It's really one of the best welterweight title fights ever

How about some other oft-forgotten classics?

 

Eubank Watson 2

 

I'd like to add another Simon Brown fight, the one against his friend Mo Blocker

Also, Simon Brown KO victim Terry Norris was in a short barnburner against Troy Waters

 

Rocky Lockridge vs. Danny Lopez (it won FotY but has been forgotten since)

Kelvin Seabrooks vs. Thierry Jacob (it's on youtube, it has a crazy first round)

 

adams was demoralized by not getting the decision apparently. i saw him in vegas and asked him what was different about the rematch that he lost decisively. he said the difference was that he didnt try in the rematch. wtf:shit:

my vote goes to iran barkley vs robbie sims

 

Aaron Pryor vs. Akio Kameda, Pryor vs. DuJuan Johnson...Zab Judah vs. Terronn Millett...


REED:bow:

 

Matt Hilton W15 Buster Drayton

Dennis Andries KO7 Jeff Harding/ Jeff Harding W12 Dennis Andries

Hearns vs Andries {Shambolic refereeing}

Vitali vs Sanders

 

That knockdown scored by Kameda was with some of the shortest, awkwardest shots ever.

Ref was barely able to administer the 8 count.

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Were you not entertained? Sanders took a lot of punishment and seemed on at least three occasions that he might pull out the win.

 

Herman "Tyson" Marquez vs Luis Concepcion.

 

One occasion in my eyes, when he hit Vitali in the first. Other than that - beatdown. Wasn't the most compelling of fights, IMO.

 

He hurt him again in the 6th, and then launched suicide attacks in the 7th and 8th.

Another one...... Carl Thompson vs Chris Eubank, first fight.

 

vitali klitschko vs sanders was crap. i was in attendance at staples center and strongly considered leaving midway through that slopfest

 

Holy crap, what a fight!

 

good ones!

 

Gatti, I think you mean Tony Lopez

 

couple of one-sided fights there

 

Andries never stopped slugging, and with Hearns, you never know. You could see Tommy going out there.

 

I wouldn't say this one is never spoken of, but with all the great moments in the 1970's Heavyweight scene, Norton-Quarry was a lot of fun while it lasted (I watched it last night).

Casamayor-Katsidis never gets its due. Sort of fell between two mega-fights (Vazquez-Marquez III, & Pacquiao-Marquez II), & slipped between the cracks.

 

one of the greatest fights of all time. right there

 

But Andries was getting hurt over and over, he was down 6 times

 

Benn-Barkley

People talk about Hagler hearns round 1......this eclipses that for sheer brutality.

 

sheer dirtiness

 

except Hagler and Hearns were both great

 

Yeah, and Barkley would also get sliced open over the eyes before digging out the big one. I am just saying that had I been watching that live, I basically would have been waiting for Andries to land....Hearns nearly always got hit and hurt. Remember the Roldan fight??

 

I'd also like to add Michael Moorer-Bert Cooper

 

James Page-Jose Luis Lopez
Michael Gomez-Alex Arthur

 

Harry Arroyo vs Terrance Ali

 

Very fun scrap.