Most virtuoso performance ever?

I agree Ramonza. This fight should be the routine sort of fight Floyd should take, he's considered the #2 fighter in the world, fighting people like Mosley is part of his job.

Yet the Floyd fans are acting like "Oh you HAVE to give Floyd lots of credit now, look look! He's fighting Mosley!". Sure, it's a decent fight, but it's only who he SHOULD be fighting.

It's not like he's doing anything extraordinary, like jumping up to middleweight to challenge Pavlik etc.

And it's certainly not a big enough challenge to excuse his path of least resistance in campaigning as welterweight for half a fucking decade.

 

Yes, the current Mayweather fans will do & say just that...& they won't convince me, for one. There is no detracting from him fighting Mosley, but I will give no real credit for making the fight, either.

 

The best was honeyghan kept trying to touch gloves with him after each of the middle rounds... all of his braggadocio was gone... he had been truly and completely humbled

 

Other then Jones-Toney, my fav virtuoso performances to watch are:

Taylor-McGirt

Locche-Fuji

Whitaker-Pineda

Nunn-Tate

Tyson-Biggs

Toney-Barkley

Benitez-Duran

Duran-Palimino

Mustafa Muhammed-Marvin Johnson

Kalambay-McCallum 1

McCallum-Watson

 

Good call. McCallum schooled the man who had just schooled Nigel Benn. Very impressive.

MTF

 

Good calls on Taylor-McGirt & Benitez-Duran.

In the case of the former, it is, for my money, Taylor's best performance. I'm not certain, but I think this was one of the last fights he had before the knee injury, no? Admittedly, McGirt was legitimately weight-drained going in --- but, like Toney against Jones, or Corrales battling Mayweather, you had to come away from this one expecting even the best prep could not have helped the victim on the night. Taylor clowned McGirt from first bell to last.

Benitez gets no credit nowadays for the way he completely neutralised a still-dangerous Duran. Duran fans seem to have some kind of genuine mental block when it comes to this fight. Benitez made a fool of him, straight-up.

 

Pacman vs Barrera I

 

Corrales: overrated
Hernandez: faded fighter with propensity to quit
Castillo: got robbed in their first bout
Gatti: smaller limited fighter
Judah: was easily winning the first five rounds until he turned his usual stupid self
Hatton: another overrated smaller fighter moving up in weight
DeLa Hoya: a faded boxer who should had gotten the decision

Fraud Gayweather is still a fraud. Only nutthuggers give him props.

 

Wow! Now that my friends, is pure hatred and obvious biased viewpoint. Good job panchy!:bears:

 

It's been many years since I've felt inclined to defend Mayweather, but you know this won't be taken seriously, & rightly so.

 

Panchy is one of our special posters.

You're just a special little guy, aren't you panchy?

 

You got some terrific ones in there, X

great list

 

Thanks bro.

Others that I forgot to mention that I love:

Chavez-Rosario

Curry-McCrory

Leonard-Dave Boy Green

Hagler-Sibson

Monzon-Napoles

Camacho-Ramirez

Benitez-Cervantes

Sanchez-Lopez 1

 

I know there were somewhat extenuating circumstances (though there are in a lot of these fights being mentioned), but, man alive, what an education, "The Professor" received from, "Sweet Pea."

Class dismissed...with Nelson unable to steal so much as a round.

 

This is one of my favorite displays of bodypunching. Marvin's right side must've been hurting for days afterwards.

 

No actually I think Nelson won about 2-3 rounds in that fight, but I havent watched it an awhile. Pea beat him going away though, and it was def one of Pea's 5 best performances.

 

Agreed. Those right hands to the pit of Johnson's stomach were sick! His performance vs Jerry Martin was also brilliant. Martin was coming off of beating James Scott. EMM beat the holy shit outta him, in a fight that resembled a more brutal version of Toney-Barkley.

EMM was awesome when he was "on". His lack of focus is the only reason why he isnt in the HOF right now.

At his best he woulda wiped his ass with the whole Super 6, and woulda KO'd his pupil Dawson.

 

A bit of hyperbole on my part...I haven't watched it in some time, either. Whitaker must've taken around ten of the twelve, though.

 

Yeah Nelson at the MOST won 3 rounds. Pea won as many as 10 rounds. I'll rewatch it sometime this week if I have time.

 

I have it somewhere on DVD. Maybe I'll do likewise. I still vividly remember the crowd element --- fiercely pro-Nelson.

"Zoom, Zoom!"

"Zoom, Zoom!"

They never lost focus, even as Nelson began to.

 

all of those are good choices too

 

Augustus vs. Trujillo was also good.

 

Gatti was far from a bum.

 

A couple of virtuoso performances I enjoyed:


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I LOVE watching Nunn-Tate! Nunn was really something in that fight.

 

RJJ vs Toney

Quintana vs Williams 1---very underrated performance. One of my favorites. He schooled Paul big time.

 

Morales beating natural pacquiao.

 

i remember people saying Gatti was TOO big for Floyd and would rough him up and ko him

 

First fight that came to my mind.

 

Whitaker-Ramirez II--- I watch this fight all the time and I'm not sure Whitaker ever gets hit cleanly in the entire fight.

McCallum-Mannion--- Just a methodical technical boxing beatdown