Brawls where guys just load up with haymaker after haymaker. A good example I'd forgotten about but watched recently was Cintron vs. T. Reid. Guys just tried to knock each other out non-stop. Another was Kirkland vs. Angulo.
I literally just finished rewatching Alfonso Zamora vs Alberto Sandoval. Not a haymaker type fight, but a brutal war, and worth mentioning. Zamora sure could fuckin punch.
Yeah. That fight is great and I think definitely qualifies. In reality, there's probably not many top level fights with fighters actually winding up with haymakers. Maybe I should not have used that term. For the topic, I was really just thinking of fights where the only tactic on display seems to be: "hit the guy as hard as you can." For example, I don't put Corrales/Castillo in this category. Or even Morales/Barrera, as frantic as that fight was. Those guys were still hedging risks and executing game plans.
Tiger-Hank is probably one of the best examples at a world class level. The 1st Rungvisai-Estrada fight featured a lot of loading up on haymakers despite the fight being fought largely from the outside. Honestly, I thought that was one of the most unique patterns to a fight I'd ever seen.
ESPN supposedly has this fight in their archives (they bought it from Bill Cayton along with the rest of his collection) but hasn't done sh!t to convert it in over a decade. What a shame if that's true.
The best ever was Terry Downes immediately after the Tiger fight:- Commentator: "Terry, who are you going to fight next". Terry Dowes: "The bastard who made this fight".
Merqui Sosa vs. Prince Charles Williams. Their 1st fight was so brutal that both fighters were stopped simultaneously.
Benn once said that he considered a left jab as 'a waste of a punch'. He wasn't joking. His fight with G-Man must have featured no more than ten jabs and about three hundred left hooks. MTF
