How about Vitali? Guy leaves the sport because he couldn't make it to the ring healthy to fight Rahman...coems back four years later, wins the...
I think the heavyweight division's probably got the most examples of this...Shannon Briggs' title win against Sergei Liakhovich could be...
Can you call Virgil Hill's first round knockout of Fabrice Tiozzo a case of this?
Bob Arum likes Notre Dame kids. Not sure this directly ties in, but ND graduate Mike Lee had his fourth pro fight on the Donaire-Montiel...
http://twitter.com/danrafaelespn# Assuming he's licensed at 3/8 Nev. commission meeting, ex-Notre Dame player (& current NFL player) Tommy...
Dan Rafael reporting that Peltz is saying the co-feature to a potential Donaire-Moreno bout is May could be Mike Jones again....
The %'s don't matter until it's 100.
Taylor Lautner
A couple undefeated prospects headlining ESPN FNF's this week. Sillakh is 14-0, 12 KO's. Video of rounds 9-10 of his last fight, a UD 10...
BTW, if you have Universal HD, you can see a replay of the first fight this week...though they do have commercial interuptions....
Says Salido, then Marquez, then up to 130. http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/juanma-confirms-rise-to-130-77098 “We have two fights at 126,...
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/214334/donaire-to-fight-wba-champ-moreno-on-may-28
Yeah, I don't remember Rios being that much of a favorite. Without going on gambling sidtes, I found this from Graham Houston:...
I'm going to assume I can use Saman Sorjaturong for this thread and mention his Fight of the Year KO of Chiquita Gonzalez. He had the previous...
Can you include Grady Brewer in this topic for when he competed on The Contender? Not exactly an arrival to world champion or p4p status, but it...
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Boxing fans tend to follow the Olympics, or at least who's coming out of them. The other point is the thread starter blatantly said "similar to...
Initial post:
Yeah, but signing with big time promoters out of the amateurs and getting on HBO and Showtime a repeated number times isn't exactly coming out of...
You're either trying too hard or not hard enough.
Willy Wise...upset Julio Cesar Chavez and got an HBO date from it against Shane Mosley, which he lost...eventually rematched Chavez, in which he...
Tarver's big KO wins came in rematches with Harding and Jones, though, not the first time out. Though if there was a thread about boxers who...
Keeping with the Argentina theme, you could include Carlos Baldomir...he was 34 or so when he beat Judah.
Did you also report on the sequel? :lol: This is for all those who wanted the movie to show the Gatti fights......
How about Willy Salazar beating Danny Romero?
Julio Cesar Green's one I'd forgotten about.
Are you including Williams and Bojado as one-hit wonders? It was Rubio that knocked off Bojado...and I don't think Williams Jr. or Bojado had...
Is Bronco McKart a one-hit wonder? Winky Wright liked fighting him.
Sam Hill...the fighter that ended David Reid's career. Reid's career was begging to be ended by that point, anyways, but he's the one who did it,...
Agreed. Bentt's probably as good as it gets for this thread.
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