Which fight in your lifetime have you anticipated the most?

i was pretty psyched about morales-pac I although many had written morales off as a spent bullet.

 

Unlike Muzse, I did not want Leonard to die in the ring, but I wanted to see him fight Hagler, who was as dominant a champion as it gets. Most thought Hagler would blow him away in 4 rounds or so. I had a bet with my stepdad, and I was on Cloud 9 when it turned out Leonard had won. Nobody thought he would, but I had picked him. Back then, I knew very little about handicapping fights, but my stepdad picked Hagler, so I decided to go with Leonard.

 

That was a sh*t fight. I hate f*cking boxers who go in there doing that fast combo tip-tap sh*t and look to win on points. All fluff. Like Fraud F*ckweather in many of his fights.

 

I have it on VHS as well. It was a huge fight. Nightline covered the post-fight press conference and I remember being pissed off that Jimmy Breslin was live on camera shitting on Tyson. I believe he was with Dick Schaap.

The funniest thing I remember is reporters yelling at Tyson and Tyson looks completely confused. He's trying to determine who to look at then says into the mic "don't fucking yell at me" live on national TV.

 

he was after the first fight...remember he was outboxed by Zahir Raheem before the rematch but the rematch went on as planned.

I give Erik credit...he fought well for the first seven or eight rounds before falling apart.

 

That's before you realized how common fight fixing was and how often boxers took dives for a good purse. Ask Etienne and Seldon. LOL!

 

It was a sh*t fight. Spinks took a dive, got his money and retired.

 

Actually, compared to today's endless stink-fests, it holds up quite well.

 

I dont' believe he took a dive at all

he was a great light heavy.. but he was in there with a young phenom HW
Mike hit him harder and faster than he ever been hit

 

Actually he doesn't.....To me Floyd is a true..."if the KO comes then I'll take it" kind of fighter. He doesn't go in there search and destroy mode, but he is NOT a tip-tap and running for his life trying to win on points fighter.

 

Get the f*ck off your drugs, LOK. There were guys INFERIOR to Spinks who gave Tyson a much much better fight. Spinks planned his spot because he was scared and gave up before the fight even began.
There's a reason he quit boxing that night. Never to be seen again. Only Tyson dick suckers call that garbage legit.
"Harder and faster than he's ever been hit!" :l1:
Total bullsh*t. Even f*cking druggie Pinklon Thomas took around 400 flush shots to the head from Tyson before he finally fell in the 7th. Spinks took f*ck all and then left the sport forever.
Fight was fixed just like a lot of Tyson's fights. Seldon, Savarese and Etienne included.

 

Spinks did not dive... he was definitely floored twice

One could argue that he "could have" gotten up on the second KD, but there's no question he was put there by Tyson

 

I look at it the same way. He just "over sold" it.

 

Same thing as a dive. When you throw a punch with your eyes closed, get countered with a half assed shot and fall down like you died and could've gotten up quite easily, it's a dive.
Very Etienne-esque and Seldon like. Seldon though went down from a missed punch. So unknown to Tyson, Seldon took a dive, took his 5 mill and called it a career (for the next several years or so until he needed money)

 

milliSECONDS Before the Bodyshot Knockdown, Spinks was DRILLED w/a Hard, FLUSH Uppercut...The Uppercut FROZE Spinks in Place for the Bodyshot...

Spinks Rises, Unleashes his Vaunted "Spinks Jinx" Overhand RIGHT, Tyson BOBS his Head & Lands a COUNTER Right of his Own...Another Hard, FLUSH Punch...Michael Spinks was a Fucking MIDDLEWEIGHT in the Olympics & a 175 lb'der @ his Prizefighting BEST...

Tyson's Combination of AGGRESSION, STRENGTH, POWER & SPEED Simply Overwhelmed Spinks...Michael Spinks WASN'T a Bitch, Quitter or Anything of the Sort...He Simply Got KNOCKEDthefuckOUT by Mike Tyson...

Tyson Fought a SIMILAR Version of Larry Holmes, that Spinks Won the Heavyweight Title Against...Tyson WASTED Larry Holmes...


REED:Lok:

 

MAJOR Difference is, Spinks Got Drilled by a PRE-Prison, PRE-Buster Douglas Tyson...Hell, even Kevin Rooney was STILL w/Tyson During the Spinks Fight...

The BEST Version of Tyson there EVER Was, in Other Words...

Back Then, Tyson Actually had a Pretty HIGH Workrate (Comparitively Speaking), Moved his Head & Feet, etc...



REED:dancingBaby:

 

De La Hoya v. Vargas. It is weird because any fan of boxing should respect Vargas. The guy had an ideal career as far as I am concerned. The guy had one of the best resumes there is in the last 2 decades. I just hated Vargas. I felt unlike most boxing fights where hype is manufactured, this was real.

Vargas hated DLh. He just plain hated him. I couldn't wait. DLH was a better, but smaller fighter. Vargas stronger, less skilled, but filled with hatred of DLH. It was a classic schoolyard contest between the class president and the bully.

The fight itself was great and very underated. It was a good boxing match with a definitive ending. That is the only fight I have ever thought had high hopes for that actually delivered.

 

If Spinks was acting or took a dive...that was some GREAT acting. He took a hard right hands, went crashing into the canvas, eyes roll to the back of his head, look legitimately hurt when trying to get up.....EXCELLENT acting.


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I seen acting.....DLH vs. Hopkins...now that was acting...

 

He didn't quit. He just was terrified. He probably could have continued physically. He was just terrified.

 

That fight sucked.Awful.It was exciting at the time. IT does not hold up well.

 

You can tell all that sh*t from just 91 seconds?:laugh11:
So I guess Lewis was absolutely unstoppable because he whacked out chicken-sh*t, scared Golota in like 45 seconds using that logic.:dunno:

 

:atu:The right uppercut which felled Spinks didn't even land flush enough to cause a legit KO! And look at Spinks' feet after he throws that right hand. He was stumbling forward with his head down, and his feet all out of place, knowing he was going to take his fall. And his eyes were completely clear. The guy pulled a Seldon.:laughing: Total dive.

 

Easily the Holy-Tyson rematch. Words can't describe how pumped myself, and everybody I knew were that one. Well, the whole world in general was highly anticipating it. But in NEW YORK, where every black kid/teen at the time still considered Mike a God, it was HUGE. I was SURE that Mike was gonna come back focused and waste Holy. Goddammit Mike........

Lewis-Holy 1 was also HUGE, and I couldn't help but be ultra excited for it. Believe it or not, you may not believe this given my Lewis hating history, but its the truth. I was HEAVILY rooting for Lewis in that fight. I was hoping he knocked Holy out cold for several minutes.

Since THEN however, probably Tito-Vargas. To this DAY, Tito-Vargas was the most hotly debated pre-fight in Boxing Forum history, which made me even more pumped for it.

 

I knew for sure Tyson was gonna get f*cked up again. How does a big-time bully whose whole career was based on scaring the sh*t out of opponents suddenly approach a fight where his opponent is coming to knock his head off? Tyson was scared sh*t. If I was Don King, I'd have had Tyson taking 2-3 bum fights before making the Holyfield rematch.
Tyson's psyche and confidence was badly damaged after the first fight. That rematch never should've happened immediately after the first.

 

I stopped reading after that. The whole theory of "All you have to do to beat Mike is stand up to him" is one of the most retarded in boxing history.

Peep my sig.

 

Well then scratch that and read the rest of the post. There's some good insight there.::

 

More importantly, is it doesn't detract from his greatness. iF PEOPLE FEARED HIM THAT IS AS MUCH A TALENT AS A JAB. The truth is TYSON had a very short shelf life and he dominated a lull in the division. Prim eMike was an atg though, no question.

 

2-3 bums wouldn't have helped. Mike simply didn't have the timing, skill set, or stamina to beat Holy in the late 90's.

If they fought in 91, there's a good chance it would have been a different story, but we'll never know for sure.

Even if Holy did win in the early 90's though, there's no question pre-prison Mike would have been a MUCH tougher fight for him than 96 Mike.

 

I think the problem for Tyson, even if they had met in 91, was that Tyson was getting f*ck all preparation for a tough fight. How do you get tough if your whacked ass opposition is falling down in 1 or 2 rounds? How do you prepare for somebody like Holyfield with that kinda crap opposition?
Kinda like all those bums whom Tyson whupped like Savarese, Francis and Golota meant nothing when he stepped in with Lennox.

 

i see hanz in this topic but he hasnt revealed his choice. i'll go ahead and assume it was Hogan vs the Ultimate Mime.