Behind on cards going into the final round.. who went balls to the wall ?

Down on the cards going into the final round most will just coast and be happy to survive. Who can you think of clearly went for it in the last round? Doesn't matter if they won/lost but who can you think of gave it their all knowing they only have 3 minutes to win and getting ko'ed be damned...

 

Trinidad against Vargas is probably the best example in an already winning effort.

 

Then you have the irony that the same thing happened to Tito - Hopkins closing the show in the last round of a fight he was dominating.

Leonard closing the show in the last round against Benitez in a fight he was clearly winning.

 

jorge castro vs jd jackson

 

Pretty sure that was the 9th round.

 

The coke addicted lounge singer did go balls to the ball in the last round against Ike... and punched himself out. Like the idiot he was. He would have finished Ike if he hadn't head hunted.

 

looked like the final round to me

 

That's the one I was thinking of too

 

Never saw the full fight but would Chavez Taylor qualify?

 

Such an idiot in the ring. If that was Leonard, Ike would have been a goner.

 

Yes. Chavez for sure knew that he was losing.

 

Galindez vs Kates 1 is definitely up there.

Galindez was dominating, and closed the show in the final seconds

 

But did he fight with more urgency or the same as the previous 11 rounds and just happened to land a shot?

 

gatti vs rodriguez

 

I think he fought with more urgency, but it wasn't in Chavez's nature to go balls to the wall.

 

toney vs jirov

 

Good one.

 

I think in the first Morales vs Pacquio fight Morales went kind of balls out in the final round if I'm not mistaken. I seem to remember Erik beating him pretty soundly and well ahead on the scorecards and then Erik decided to stay in the pocket and took some heavy shots from Pacquio. I thought that was crazy and didnt need to take chances. Switching Southpaw sticking out his chin daríng pac.

 

Tua vs Izon

 

Yes very good example

 

Gatti-Robinson 1

Gatti nearly pulled off the comeback. He hurt Robinson but couldn’t finish him, and Ivan won the decision

 

Provo would have stopped Bradley with one more round. Timmy was done at the end of the 12th.

 

Briggs Vs Liakhovich

 

Mike Weaver vs. John Tate…

15 Round Fight, Weaver LOST Practically Every Round…KO’ed the Highly Touted Tate In the Final Stanza, and Milked a Few Years as WBA Champion.




REED

 

Toney Vs Nunn

It was the final round cos James KTFO of Nunn

 

Good one! I remember he rocked Ivan good

 

Froch-Taylor

 

He didn't quite pull it off but Manuel Medina against Paul Ingle is a contender imo.

 

Maskaev was behind on one card and had he lost the 12th he wouldn't have won the title
ESPN had him behind....

Vs Hasbeen Ragman, 2nd fight

He went all out to ensure he got the win.

 

Yes .... Froch really went after him, maniacally almost. And he had to. He was behind.