Ward vs Sanchez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yzxKAqA6uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Still one of the most remarkable finishes to a fight ever.

This is inspired by the fighter film i'm watching tonight.

 

:bears:

Loved The Fighter.

 

It is really amazing how impossibly brutal that one punch in Ward's arsenal was... It was really all he had, apart from bravery... and yet he was a contender for a long time because of it... He hurt so many guys with that punch

As an aside, how different does Roy Jones sound in that clip compared to now? Amazing difference, far greater than I was conscious of

 

sanchez was beating the shit outta ward. i prefer phillips v ward

 

It always surprised me he never stopped Judah with it. It's not like Judah turned out to be the most durable guy in the world. Then again I didn't see that fight so I don't know the whole story behind it.

 

the story was he didnt land shit aside from a body shot here and there. he got his ass whipped as he always did against better than average opposition.

 

Yea, the difference in jones' voice is quite remarkable.

Good film too.

 

Yep.

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Ward's left hook to the head was pretty brutal as well. I watched the HBO documentary High On Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, and they showed one of Micky's fights against a clubfighter. The effect it had on the guy was nothing short of spectacular.

 

Holy crap, Roy sounds really really bad there.

 

Ward would have been a contender in any era; he was a throwback to the good ol' days.

 

Well technically he was a contender in his own era.

 

No he wasn't

I've never seen a fighter like Ward... he had nothing, save for that liver shot... it was his only weapon... there's not a single fighter in all of boxing history I would compare him with, least of all a successful one. That he manged a handful of second-tier wins and found himself consistently in the lower 10 for a stretch of 4 or 5 years is, frankly, astonishing. He is utterly unique

And I disagree with Buddy completely, that left hook to the head may have been devastating to some tomato can, but at the world level, it was about as difficult to take as one of Leonard Dorin's "bombs"

 

But it's 'Irish' Ward Man.

 

LOL, I liked the guy, he seemed like a decent enough sort, and I admired his bravery but the guy's success is simply inexplicable and without that shot to the liver... he'd have probably retired after 7 or 8 fights

 

Do you think he'd teach it to you?

 

I'd love to possess that kind of hook to the body. Actually, what am I on about, I do.

:egypt:

 

if he heard me talking like this, yes:laughing:

 

:bears::bears::bears:

 

:giggle:

 

more like 20. He was 15-0 at one point. I doubt he was knocking guys out with body shots fight after fight early in his career. But it definitely helped prolong his contender status.

Micky's the man though.

 

great body shot ko by ward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqBn5A67RSs

 

::

Mickey Ward knocks out some scrubbier-than-thou guy with a body shot.....and Atlas starts to tell us about Jose Torres vs Willie Pastrano.......:laugh11:

 

I was kidding. I think Ward sucked. He was a C+ fighter with one very good punch.