Underrated virtuoso performances

Lewis-Rahman 2
Calzaghe-Lacy

 

Neither of those are underrated.

 

Radar vs. Duran (because some people don't think Radar's prime was at 154)

 

Jones vs Brannon- This doesn't get mentioned as much as it should. This was a peak Roy.

DeJesus vs Buzzsaw Yamabe- This was a boxing clinic. If DeJesus were around today, he would clean house from 130 to probably 140.

Mayweather vs N'Dou- Peak Floyd at his best. Did it all. Boxed from angles, worked behind the jab, counter punched, fought toe to toe. Amazing.

Hearns vs Primera- Great display with Hearns winning by KO with a left hook to the body. Nice stuff.

Duran vs Vazquez- Amazing stuff from Duran. A perfect blend of offense and defense with Duran interchanging both seamlessly. A clinic on short accurate punching inside and a nice KO to top it off.

 

Ledwaba/Contreras
Dawson/Adamek
M. Johnson/Vorapin
Moya/Vargas
Austin/Vargas

 

Ouma/Jantuah

 

Lehlo looked like the goods, I figured he had a long reign ahead of him, and then he met Pacquaio... yikes

He was a good fighter, though, that's a great win on Pac's resume, too often overlooked

I watched that fight on TV and I kept thinking "that's got to be the hardest punching Junior Featherweight I have ever seen"

 

Johnston/Manfredy

 

This is actually a really good one, Doub.

I re-watched that fight about 2 months ago. Ouma did do an impressive paint job on Jantuah.

 

It was a perfect oppty for pacquiao. He was a late replacement and ledeaba was coming off a virtuoso win over Contera.

But to the point, ledwabas performance against Contreras was largely erased by the pacquiao steam rolling.

 

Nelson vs Gomez

This fight was Nelson at his TRUE best.

 

Indeed, it's almost like Lehlo is nothing more than a footnote, now

He was quite good, as that fight illustrates

 

Mosley vs Demetruis Ceballios: Probably Shane's best performance at 135.

 

Great performance... when Gomez attacked, Nelson outboxed him, when Gomez boxed, Nelson chased him down

the KO was fucking brutal

 

I recall being super excited for that match up, somewhat favoring jantuah. But even if you were picking Ouma, it wasnt by ko

 

Orzabek Navarov vs Thobela: More posters should know about Navarov. He was a HELLUVA fighter!

I think he'd be the best at 135 today. If I could compare him to anyone, I'd say he was like a lightweight Winky Wright, only with POWER.

 

Wright against Mosley, first outing.

 

Darchinyan - Mijares
Augustus - Oliveira

 

Much as I HATE to admit this...... Spaddy's virtuoso against Pito Cardona was pretty impressive.

 

Toney vs. Barkley
Spinks vs. Marvin Johnson



REED:cheer:

 

Kats was landing some nice shots of his own throughout tho.

 

Emmanuel Augustus v Jon Thaxton. That was awesome.

 

marquez vs. peden
nelson vs. rueles II
medina vs. harrison
hamed vs. bungu
darchinyan vs. mijares

 

who could forget augustus vs. trujillo? emmanuel's finest performance of his career.

 

James Thunder against Crawford Grimsley. :crafty:

 

McCallum-Yonker. Really like that one. McCallum was OLD but he absolutely dissected Yonker with pure skill.

 

Leonard Dorin vs Emanuel Augustus.

Augustus was coming off the razor close fight with Ward. Dorin beat the crap outta him, and won every round.

 

a lot of fighters beat up augustus though. omar weis easily beat him, so did kid diamond after getting whupped by nate campbell.

 

that's a good one! i'd forgotten about that fight. not only was it a good performance by augustus, but it was a good fight too.

 

Hagler vs Hamsho I and Sibson.

Both Hamsho and Sibson were tough legit contenders who were not expected to beat Hagler, but were expected to give him some trouble. Hagler outboxed both with ease on the way to one-sided TKO defeats.