Artistically waged fights.....

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  1. Double L

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    Name fights that whilst they may have been violent, were waged with honed technique. clean punching and superb defense.

    1. tapia/ayala
    2. lopez/grigsby
     
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    Vazquez - Marquez Trilogy
     
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    sanchez/castillo

    chavez/taylor
     
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    Tarver-Jones 2
     
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    Corrales-Castillo was a war with not much defense, however both were superb offensive fighters with great technique.
     
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    obscure, but pbf/vargas. artistic fight.
     
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    Tim Austin-Adan Vargas is an easy fight to watch.
     
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    beautiful fight. and yet, savage.
     
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    whitaker-mcgirt I & II (although the rematch was heavily onesided)
     
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    I haven't seen it, but based upon what i read in the other thread Kirkland-Vera merits consideration.
     
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    wright/simon was a good solid fight.
     
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    Morales - Barrera 1. Almost no holding, just great action between 2 brilliant offensive fighters. Same with Chico - Castillo and Vazquez - Marquez.

    Kirkland - Vera is probably as far away as one can get from the intention of the thread.

    I've seen more artistry from Butterbean.
     
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    leija vs. robinson was a decent scrap on the undercard of lewis-tua.
     
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    I was thinking more along the lines of Willy Wise- Julio Chavez 1
     
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    what about that seagate fight - who was it he fought? that was an artistic fight.

    also, triinidad/vargas. was there one clinch? even tito/reid, at least the first half was a nice looking fight.
     
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    i'm a bit confused. first i thought it was about two technically solid fights, but now it's turning out to be all-out wars that didn't include clinches. way to go doub.
     
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    what about Cobrita Soto vs El Temible ?
     
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    tito/vargas was a war but one waged artistically, with honed technique and precision punching.
     
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    you say 'tomato', dopefiend L says 'death grip'.

    don't ever attempt to comprehend how his warped mind operates
     
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    Great call, beat me to it.

    Barrera-Marquez
    Leonard-Hearns
    Benitez-Cervantez
    Charles-Walcott
     
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    Vargas should not have stood up to that illegal wrap for as long as he did, it wrecked his career.
     

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