I'll start. Roy vs Montell 1. Before the stoppage round Roy was actually losing on at least one or two cards I belive. Thats pretty wild cuz that was as prime as Roy got and it was pretty deep into the fight
I know Roy would have won without the foul, but it was an interesting fight. Griffin's style gave Roy absolute fits. It was a very close fight at the time. Did anyone ever try and copy that blueprint?
Floyd was very dull and underwhelming in the Sosa fight. So much so, that I vividly remember a thread being started after that fight asking if Floyd could beat Tszyu, and like 90% of the forum said Tszyu would destroy Floyd. No one would say that in retrospect, but at that juncture, Floyd wasn't looking like no "TBE" in his career.
Yup and that was at his very peak. I think Lennox just like everyone else couldn't comprehand that skinny Croatian's chin..
A lot of people were saying Leonard was shot and looked tentative after his (early) stoppage win of Kevin Howard. I don't think he looked to bad personally
Hahaha I was so invested in this thread and Griffin's performance that I too forgot the actual result
Donaire vs Darchinyan II. Donaire, in his first fight since losing to Rigondeaux, looked mediocre and scared vs a smaller, past his prime Darchinyan, whom he had already anhilated when the later was in his prime. Managed to bail himself out strictly because of his amazing punching power.
I think Louis performance in his first Walcott fight was so bad Louis tried to run off before they announced the decision .
Floyd's Only GOOD Performance at '35 was N'Dou, Ironically...There was ZERO Indication of His Future Successes @ '40-54... REED
Yeah, I thought the same thing reading X’s post. And, though you can certainly argue he was removed from his prime in that fight, I thought Mayweather looked far from TBE against Maidana, who was limited even though he was certainly a good and tough fighter.
Yeah I was a kid and when Holyfield fought Cooper and I remember thinking he was out of there. You could see why Bowe beat him.
Exactly. It's clear this guy has a bias against Mexican fighters. Castillo arguably handed Floyd his first loss, but somehow Sosa is the one that comes to his mind? Yeah, right. LOL.
I don't think it was a bad performance. Yeah he got nearly koed by basically a journeyman, but Cooper could punch like hell and this things happen in boxing. Apart from this he looked pretty good imo and Cooper could fight way better than his record indicated when he was focused. Hiw win over Holmes was way way worse...
