Boxing - Great Rounds

[Muscle Car Lover]

Former boxer and long time boxing history lover, I have out together a bucnh of great rounds for your perusal:


Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard - Round 9 (1987)
An amazing round in a controversial fight, love this round. How you scored this round was how you scored the fight IMO:
http://youtu.be/G5jUDE9mIXM?t=7m3s

Iran "The Blade" Barkley vs. Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns - Round 3 (1988)
Thomas Hearns had challenger Iran Barkley cut and hurt badly to the body as early as round 1. From NOWHERE Barkley uncorks a right hand in the 3rd round and the fight is over! Saw this live, was shocked:
http://youtu.be/7GBbLUkQn2s?t=12m40s

Roberto Duran vs. Davey Moore - Round 7-8 (1983)
A young and inexperienced champion takes on a living legend and Duran in Madison Square Garden has one of his best nights. Brutal, and the crowd loves Duran even though Moore is from the Bronx::
http://youtu.be/yGTlQsjzmWU?t=20m50s

Roberto Duran vs. Iran Barkley - Round 11 (1989)
Ok, so you have seen both Duran and Barkley, but how about against each other?

Considered finished and washed up (again) Duran summons one of his best fights and takes the title away from Barkley largely on a wonderful 11th round. What a combination to put Barkley down, and again, the crowd (snowed in!) were wild for Duran. Side note, watched this fight snowed in with my Mom live, maybe our best time together:
http://youtu.be/knjh-ucbrKg?t=56m5s

Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs - Between Rounds 6-7 and Round 7 (1987)
I know Mike Tyson is a joke now, but as a boxing fan (and have seen well over 1000 fights dating back to 1920) I can tell you he was one of the best ever at his prime. Kevin Rooney was his coach and it was amazing. In this section against Biggs you hear Rooney telling Mike "those 7's were beautiful. Now 6-5-1. 6-5-2-1" which is their jargon for punch combos. It's over the next round:
http://youtu.be/LpH7jVPT_Zc?t=27m11s

Enjoy!

[ChadG]

Must include Haggler vs. Hearns

and

Mickey Ward vs. Arturo Gatti (pick any round!)

and

Roy Jones Jr. knocking out Virgil Hill with a body blow!?!?

[CamaroLoco]

Excellent fights...I saw all them!
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There's been so many over the years.
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Duran vs Buchanan when he took the title with a groin shot.
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Bobby Chacon vs Cornelius Boza Edwards
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Danny Little Red Lopez vs everybody but I especially loved the 4th round knock out of Sean O'Grady.
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Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez
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Those are going back to when I was a kid. The 80's, 90's had some really historic fights. I'm a big fan...got into a lot of fist fights and thought I'd try boxing....got my nose broke as well as a fractured eye orbit....that was the end of that....heck, I'll take a fist all day long but 8, 10oz gloves? Man, boxing jacked me up more than any fist fight I was ever in!
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I'm a pay per view boxer now!

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by CamaroLoco

Excellent fights...I saw all them!
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There's been so many over the years.
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Duran vs Buchanan when he took the title with a groin shot.
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Bobby Chacon vs Cornelius Boza Edwards
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Danny Little Red Lopez vs everybody but I especially loved the 4th round knock out of Sean O'Grady.
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Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez
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Those are going back to when I was a kid. The 80's, 90's had some really historic fights. I'm a big fan...got into a lot of fist fights and thought I'd try boxing....got my nose broke as well as a fractured eye orbit....that was the end of that....heck, I'll take a fist all day long but 8, 10oz gloves? Man, boxing jacked me up more than any fist fight I was ever in!
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I'm a pay per view boxer now!

Oh wow! You are a true fan and historian!

I saw Sanchez vs Gomez, man there was so much Mexico vs Puerto Rico hate on that!

Did you see Carlos Zarate vs Alfonso Zamorra? Great fight too.

Duran was winning that fight handily anyway, but yeah, crappy way for it to end on a low blow.

[aurora]

Originally Posted by ChadG

Must include Haggler vs. Hearns

and

Mickey Ward vs. Arturo Gatti (pick any round!)

and

Roy Jones Jr. knocking out Virgil Hill with a body blow!?!?

Yeah, I like the ones you mentioned above. Too bad about what happened to Gatti.

Call me a total nerd, but I guess I am still very intrigued by the old Cassius Clay and George Foreman fight where he used the rope-a dope tactic because he knew he couldn't win otherwise. That was Rumble in the Jungle. My dad makes me watch the old ones, lol!

I haven't seen a fight for a while actually, last one was probably a Klitschko fight, or perhaps that Mayweather fight where he came unglued on Larry Merchant!!

[USMCSSGT-RET]

I made a sandwich for Marvelous Marvin in the late 90's at Subway in South Chicago!

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by USMCSSGT-RET

I made a sandwich for Marvelous Marvin in the late 90's at Subway in South Chicago!

NO WAY!!!!!

[Muscle Car Lover]

probably the best fight, start to finish I ever saw, was Aaron Pryor vs Alexis Arguello I from 1982 in Miami. Two fighters in prime at top of their game. Sad there were questions about Pryor maybe taking stimulants. I spent an evening with Arguello (RIP) at a charity boxing event years ago and he would have none of it. He said he lost fair and square, I am not so sure.

See this right hand in the 13th round (41:40 mark of video) where Pryor's head hits his own back and the guy don't even blink????? When I boxed I hit a few people like this and they all were knockouts on the spot. Anyways:

[PalmerGA]

Originally Posted by Muscle Car Lover

Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs - Between Rounds 6-7 and Round 7 (1987) I know Mike Tyson is a joke now, but as a boxing fan (and have seen well over 1000 fights dating back to 1920) I can tell you he was one of the best ever at his prime. Kevin Rooney was his coach and it was amazing.

I've always loved the heavyweights and watched Tyson his entire career. No one could hit harder than him and I loved the way he knocked guys out with body shots. Sadly, once Cus and Rooney were out of his life (and King came into it)... Mike lost his mind and his heart. Otherwise, I believe he was on his way to being the best heavyweight EVER.

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by PalmerGA

I've always loved the heavyweights and watched Tyson his entire career. No one could hit harder than him and I loved the way he knocked guys out with body shots. Sadly, once Cus and Rooney were out of his life (and King came into it)... Mike lost his mind and his heart. Otherwise, I believe he was on his way to being the best heavyweight EVER.

TRUTH!!!

I have seen every heavyweight title or contender fight since 1920. Tyson was the best I have ever seen until he left the people that cared about him the most. Sad really.

[6bangerBOOM]

Originally Posted by USMCSSGT-RET

I made a sandwich for Marvelous Marvin in the late 90's at Subway in South Chicago!

I think this just became my favorite celebrity encounter story.


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[LostPony]

Diego Corrales VS Jose Luis Castillo May 7, 2005. One of the best fights in my opinion, and the wrong man won. Diego repeatedly spit his mouth piece out to buy more time, and when he went down for the last time he spit it out and the ref should have called it. But Diego was allowed to get up and he put a vicious combination on Castillo and the fight was stopped. I raged for days over that one!

Great fights are very rare these days as most only care about their record, and a loss sets them back so far. In the better days of boxing, a loss was just that, a loss. You weren't suddenly shut out and had to rebuild from scratch. Another problem is too many titles to fight for, WBO, WBC, Ring magazine, ABC, XYZ blah blah blah…..

Oh, almost forgot my favorite fight EVER! Marco Antonio Barrera taking Prince Naseem Hamed to school! I HATED Naseem, and the way Marco beat him made Marco one of my favorite fighters of all time.

And of course we all loved the Gatti v Ward fights. The first and the 3rd fight were just great boxing by men who loved the sport.

[aurora]

Originally Posted by LostPony

And of course we all loved the Gatti v Ward fights. The first and the 3rd fight were just great boxing by men who loved the sport.

Yeah.

And maybe this is a bit off topic, but I must say, The Fighter is one of my favourite movies ever. Based on Ward and Dicky Ecklund. Have you seen it??

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by aurora

Yeah.

And maybe this is a bit off topic, but I must say, The Fighter is one of my favourite movies ever. Based on Ward and Dicky Ecklund. Have you seen it??

Great film and it was filmed mostly at my old boxing gym in Lowell with Arthur Ramahlo in the movie.