One fight, and one fight only to show someone in oprder to try and get them into boxing, what fight would you shouw, and why?
Agreed and everybody who disagrees with this pick or even gives Corrales-Castillo is a teenybopper. Another one who didn't see Gomez-Pintor
Please. Both were great fights. Anyone who acts like Castillo/Corrales isn't in the same category as Gomez/Pintor is just a nostalgic sentimental.
It's not just how good the fight was...it's also about who the combatants were and what weight group they were in (high profile fighters in high profile weight class).. AS SUCH... Trinidad vs Vargas Two undefeated Jnr Middleweight champions in their primes. Mexico vs Puerto Rico backdrop. Both men dropped. Both men with points deducted. Ebb and flow in the action all the way through. Both men busted up. Classic KO finish. Very underrated fight.
I have always found Gatti/Ward I as the most effective... and I think it has a lot to do with the exciting HBO commentary. Corrales/Castillo I, while a way better fight, was on Showtime... where the broadcasts are dreadfully boring in caparison to the show HBO puts on. Jim Lampley can really sell action to a casual or non-fan.
I think it was THE fight of the 2000s. Better than Morales-Barrera 1&3, Gatti Ward 1, even Castillo-Corrales. Castillo-Corrales had more sustained action...and had a movie script ending...this is true...but until the 10th round..although there was intense action there wasn't much DRAMA. Gatti-Ward had the action and the drama but no skill Morales vs Barrera (fight 3 was better than fight 1 IMO) was also a great fight just like the others but again..where Tito-Vargas wins is that it had action, drama from the GET GO, skill, KO finish, both fighters getting dropped, Tito getting thumbed, Vargas getting low blowed...both fighters getting point deductions. SHIT...that fight had it all...I'm going to watch it again now.... opcorn:
Round 10 more than made up for the lack of perceived drama though... it was probably the most dramatic round in modern boxing history. I love all these fights, but Corrales/Castillo was the only one where I felt like I couldn't breathe at the end.
Agreed. I'd say Eubank-Watson 2 round 11 possibly beats it though. Corrales-Castillo was indeed a great great fight. Still...there is no fight that made me feel the way I felt during the Tito-Vargas fight. The stakes were high and the combination of drama and action from bell one almost made me pass out. I think to this day....that fight generated the most discussions of any fight on a message board. On secondsout.com the picks were literally 50-50 and it polarized the forum. The fight exceeded expectations.
DLH/Vargas--because a lot of people have heard of DLH. A Pacquaio fight would work too. I'd go with Pac/JMM 1
If you tried to make an impression on a casual guy who hadn't watched boxing before, then I think a better pick would be a shorter fight, such as Hagler-Hearns. As boxing fans we can appreciate long wars but for a newborn ten or eleven rounds might be too many for starters
My thoughts as well. When i have company over that's not much into boxing i usually throw in a dvd i have which is a compliation of knockouts rather than entire fights. If i had to pick one match it would probably be something fairly short like Hagler-Hearns.
This could be a good choice. Two guys swinging and falling is easier to understand and like than more technical slugfest
Well that's why I chose Tito-Vargas Vargas falls twice i the first few seconds. Tito is dropped in the 4th round. They would be hooked in by then...
But they might be bored around 9th as the end does not come. Boxing fans can feel the electricity growing by each round but I suspect a casual guy would feel it going down
Don't underestimate the casual fan. A friend of mine who didn't know much about the sport got hook after watched De La Hoya Quartey and the two knockdowns in the 6th.
Good shouts everybody, I agree on just about all of them. I have used gatti-Rodriguez in order to get casual fans in as well, works like a charm, drama, lowblows, both fighters KD'd Gatti almost stopped, and it ends relatively quick...good fight.
