Most enjoyable: Mosley's destruction of Margarito Honorable mention: Trinidad vs Vargas Most nerve-wrecking: Gomez vs Pintor Honorable mention: Tito vs Hopkins
Most enjoyable Trinidad-Vargas Pacquiao-De La Hoya (Seeing Oscar punished was fun). Corrales-Castillo 1 Nerve wrecking Hopkins-Trinidad Tszyu-Chavez (I was worried for Julio).
The most nerve racking fight for me was Tyson Ruddock 1. Tyson had recently been knocked out by Buster Douglas and so the world now knew that he was human. Ruddock has recently been on a string of shocking and devastating knockout victories over the likes of dokes and smith. I was nervous as hell for Tyson for every minute of that fight.
I loved Tyson vs Holmes as well...orgasmic experience that one, seeing Holmes battered all over the ring in the 4th round. I’d been waiting 8 years to see that happen to Larry.
Most enjoyable: Sanders/Wlad Honorable mention: Tua/Ruiz Nerve racking: Corrales/Castillo I Honorable mention: Mosley/ODH I
Can't think of a real nerve racking one Most enjoyable was probably Barrera/Hamed, followed by Hopkins/Trinidad... Holy/Tyson was great too although I was fucking loaded during it
Barrera Hamed is a great mention. LOVED that fight. Every time Barrera punched Naz and his head snapped back or wobbled all over the place I received a thrill up my leg.
Believe it or Not, Roy vs Ruiz was Both Nerve Wrecking AND Enjoyable. Literally, REED was On the Couch, Covered Up, in the Fetal Position During the Pre-Fight. REED Noticed Roy Take a Deeeeeeep Breath Just Prior to his Ring Walk, Which Told REED Roy was Indeed NERVOUS, Which Made REED Even More Nervous. But by the 2nd or 3rd, it was Like Any Other Roy Jones Fight and it Became Enjoyable. Most of Fightbeat SWORE Roy Wouldn’t Even TAKE the Fight, a Large % Said “I Won’t Believe It Until I SEE Roy In the Ring w/Ruiz”, Ruiz Attended the Presser in a Pimp Suit, Calling Roy his “Ho”, So it was Thoroughly Enjoyable Watching it All Unfold as it Did. REED
Roy-Tarver III Takes the “Nerve Wrecking” Cake Though. Literally, Every Single Time Tarver Threw a Punch, REED was Expecring Roy to Be KO’ed... Again... REED
Good Call. Holmes Lost Fights But Never Got His Ass Kicked Like That Before Or Since. That One Fight PURGED All the Contempt REED Had for Holmes, for the Ali Fight. REED
How could I have forgotten that one? I'll be damned, I enjoyed that beating so much I kept calling my co-workers, who couldn't watch the fight live, and I was giving them the updates for each two or three rounds. When I told them Holyfield stopped Tyson they just plain couldn't believe it. They were Tyson groupies and for me, to give them the shocking news of their hero's beating, was even more pleasurable.
I was unbelievably hammered during that fight... watched it at a friend's off campus apartment with a bunch of people, played and sang a bunch of songs with somebody's guitar that got shoved into my hands and then stumbled back to my dorm room at 3 AM and vomited my guts out
Garcia-Khan Khan at the time was so overrated it wasn’t even funny. He had lost to Peterson prior to that and he was whining non-stop about it. That beating was satisfying to see.
When the day comes that Wilder is finally brought down will be up there for me. He’s in desperate need of a humiliating KO.
Wlad Brewster ranks among the most enjoyavle ones. To see a limited guy walk through fire to make that giant supremely talented tinman quit was the stuff of legend
Lewis Rahman 2 was incredibly satisfying for me. Since the first fight Rahman had been walking around like he was Emperor Tiberius.
