List boring brawls. I start with none other than... David Tua vs Ike Ibeabuchi. Fight had zero drama. No cuts no, knock downs, no fouls, no sense of urgency no build up. NOTHING. It was like watching somebody play a boxing video game and they're just slamming every single button on the controller.
personally i wouldve enjoyed that particular fight more if it were ibeabuchi or tua beating the daylights out of some under trained and/or borderline shot opponent, and then suddenly bitching out and getting disqualified when they failed to finish off said shot/out of shape foe.
Tua/Ibeabuchi was great live. I was up half the night. I stood up for the entire thing.In retrospect, it had zero significance.That is the problem with forum opinions sometimes. Neither Tua or Ike went on to have a great career. However, at the time, these were two up and comers and they showed toughness, power and will. There is always a subjective component to fights.
Many brawls are boring when you rewatch them, for example there is nothing to see in Foreman-Lyle as you know the result.
First one that came to mind, too. Wanna know why? about 10% of the shots compubox counted for Tua were thrown with any intent. The rest were him just moving his arms
Alex Stewart vs George Foreman. Having read about this fight years ago, I finally got to watch it when the interwebz came along. I was disappointed. It sounded brilliant, one guy down twice early, and seemingly going out, coming back to pound the other guys face into mush. In reality it was just an inept, young challenger gutting out the early crisis and coming pack to, pretty repetitively, bash an old slow guy into a terrible state. George also hitting him low.:doh: Ostensibly, the fight offered a lot, when I watched it, there was fuck all.
I got the impression from Ring Magazine that they had fought each other to a standstill, but it was just George running down faster than a cheap battery, and the underpowered, under-confident Stewart just wasn't able to put him way. Ironically, Georges punch, the one non-overrated thing, failed to put him away, with Gil Clancy suggesting that Stewart only woke up when George tagged him. Fight might well have been stopped anywhere else. Foreman was hideously disfigured.
Foreman/Lyle is great because it's so funny. It's up there with Morrison/Bentt as the funniest fight ever.
Nah, a comical fight perhaps. I have watched it twice and I have no intention to rewatch it. I am not really sure why is that though, MAB-Morales I was also a brawl and I have watched in numerous times. Gatti-Ward I I have rewatched once
