Fighters that DON'T Mix Well; Fighters that DO Mix Well...

For Instance, Marco Antonio Barrera & Erik Morales Could Fight 100 Times & They'd have 100 Somewhat Fan-Friendly Bouts...

On the Other Hand, REED Doesn't Think Bernard Hopkins vs Roy Jones would EVER B an Entertaining Fight...

What Other Combination of Fighters would NEVER Produce an Exciting Fight & What Combination would Almost ALWAYS Produce an Exciting Fight???...



REED

 

Obviously, Isreal Vasquez-Rafael Marquez and Riddick Bowe-Evander Holyfield made for excellent matchups.

James Toney and Montell Griffin don't match up well for entertaining bouts.

Agreed with Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins.

 

Safe to say i think that DeMarcus Corley and Junior Witter could never produce an entertainig fight.....Thomas Adamek and Paul Briggs match up well on the other hand

 

Zahir Raheem and just about anyone wouldn't match up well for good bouts.

 

fun matchups...

Corrales vs. Castillo
Cotto vs. Mosley






boring

Winky vs. McKart..they did it 3-4 times..it suck every time...

 

How about Gonzalez-Carbajal as a match-up that produced both.

 

Fights between two southpaws are normally lousy. There are some exceptions, but it's overwhelmingly the case.

 

GOOD Call...

Ditto for the Ali-Frazier & Roy-Tarver Trilogies...


REED

 

Gatti and Ward
Bowe and Golota
Ali and Frazier
Foreman vs Bowe would have been an excellent fight aswell.
Ibeabuchi and Tua would have produced another good fight in a rematch

 

How about Vitaly vs Lennox Lewis?

Lewis has to fight guns blazing again since Vitaly has the reach advantage and Vitaly has an iron chin so Lewis wouldn't have blasted him out. It would have been another GRUELING match.

 

I bet Ruiz and Holyfield could fight say 3 times and never produce 2 minutes of entertainment. I'm speculating of course.

 

That holds true for Ruiz vs almost anyone.

 

To be fair, Hopkins could probably make Hearns boring, and in against someone of reasonably equivalent class, Roy can also make anyone look boring.

In contrast Manny Pacquiao can make anyone exciting, the gus style is just beautfiul, same with Juan Diaz

 

agREED about Juan Diaz, but even Manny Pac COULDN'T Keep the RE w/Barrera from Being BORING...


REED

 

Roid vs Tarver. Fun result every time!

 

thats fair, but Barrera is in some awful fights sometimes. I can't recall another Manny fight that was nearly as boring as anything Barrera has been in in the last 4 years

 

I actually thought the first fight was decent, and the rematch had one exciting round (well, when Ruiz dropped and hurt Holyfield).

It was the rubber match that was an all-time stinker.

 

why my dream matchup of course

John Ruiz vs henry akinwande

 

Yeah you once posted a hilarious rbr of that fight.

 

Ya that was so long ago :: damn

 

Exactly, saying Ruiz-Holy was a boring triology is revisionnism history, the first 2 fights were pretty interesting and fun, but nobody ( well it still pulled awesome rating on HBO but you get my drift ) wanted to see the rubber match, and when it turned out to be a stinker, it became the common thing to say that every one of them sucked.

 

hopkins vs. anyone
malignaggi vs. anyone
sven ottke vs. everyone he fought

 

I thought Ruiz vs Tua was a pretty entertaining bout.

 

the first 5 seconds were kinda dull

 

Chris Byrd, unless hes' getting pummelled.

Vernon Forrest has a boring style, so far only Mayorga made any Forrest fight entertaining.

 

jmm/pacquiao - good

odh/trinidad - bad

 

entertaining forrest fights:

baldomir

phillips

quartey

mosley I

mayorga I&II

yeah. real boring fighter.

 

:bears: Lovely line Joon, lovely line, a few more of them mate.

 

Wlad Klistchko vs any big puncher who has no real skills.

 

4 Some Reason, REED Thinks a DeLa-Tito RE would B Exciting...

DeLa DOESN'T have the Mobility to Run the Last 4 Rounds & he Doesn't have QUITE as Much Speed to Thoroughly OUTBOX Tito Early...

There'd B ALOT More Exchanges N a DeLa-Tito RE...


REED