Kessler-Calzaghe- brilliant skillful fight, which was a high-skills shootout for long periods. Kesslers punches were bombs of the highest, straightest order, and Joes subtle body work was both brutal and sublime. Both men boxed to orders with one eye on the KO all the way. Duran-Leonard I Probably epitomises the thinking mans brawl category. No knockdowns, no cuts, no deductions {AFAIK} just 15 rounds of high octane skill and class, punctuated by the right guy winning. Mosley-Oscar I. A poor mans Duran-Leonard, but both men fought with class and tried to win it right to the very end. Oscar-Bazooka Quartey. Two punchers, both perfectly aware of what the other could do to him. Oscars technique went out the window a little bit in the end, but for all the power both men had, it was their jabs that got the quality vote- yet both men had their eye on a KO every second of the way. Arturo Gatti-Tracy Patterson I Arturo faded down the stretch but this fight was a-typical of Gatti in his early years. Pre-Buddy, he probably never moved and jabbed as much. Patterson started to zero in with right hand bombs late on to swell Gatti up, but he probably did too much thinking and ran out of time.
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Arent ya pissed off that Calzaghe won?.. ee's wasted his whole obscure career, and looked like utter shit against some handpicked mandatory scrubs, particularly, who can forget him being put through a GRUELLER against Cadbury 'Abraham' Salem?? :doh: damn, I thought Lacy was going to kill him, Joe's obviously shot,.......... and then he turns up once in a fucken blue moon for the huge fights and thoroughly defeats them with the brilliant potential of an all-time great, imagine what he could've been against consistant top flight competition years ago?... He's a fucken frustrating shit stirring cunt of a fighter, and no fight or career has pissed me off worse in recent memory.
Seriously? You don't think that was some very entertaining boxing? They were hurting each other while boxing beatifully. I thought it was a very good fight honestly.
Interesting thread! Good choices...except for DLH-Quartey; I don't know if I consider that a "brawl"...there was TOO much thinking going on in that one. :: Holyfield-Dokes Trinidad-Vargas Quartey-Espana Toney-McCallum I & II Jones-Barrera II Chavez-LaPorte Sugar Ramos-Davey Moore (tragic ending, but if you haven't seen this fight you should!) Saldivar-Seki Harada-Jofre
Hatton-Thaxton. hatton was trying to box when all he could do up to that point was brawl. It was funny watching him try to "power-box" all the while trying to protect a horrific cut. Thaxton for his part threw every shot while trying to prevent himself from getting destroyed and open Rickys cut some more {if that was possible}
The problem with the Tito-Vargas fight, I feel, is that, with the benefit of hindsight, Vargas was not really in it after the 10th. He seemed to be trying to win it but i think Tito knew he had it wrapped. I really feel Oscar-Quartey was a thinking mans brawl...Oscar certainly went for it in th 12th and Quartey threw jabs like they were fucking right hands. Both guys looked to end it on at least 3 occassions with single left hooks. Okay, there were large spots where, ostensibly, feck all happened. But.....thats because they were thinking. I haven't seen Ayala-Tapia I or II.......from what I understand Tapia boxed brilliantly for 1 round of their first fight then discarded the technique manual.
