Favorite Boxer & Best Fight You Ever Saw!

[BlueBallz]

How could I have forgotten Hagler v Hearns. That was a vicious fight!!

[BlueBallz]

Speaking of Honeygan one of my al time fav fights was when Mark Breland came and kicked the shit out of him in 1990. I was there and that is a fav of mine coz its purely personal. Mark wanted to knock the shit out of him because about 6 months earlier Honeygan took a cheap shot in a fight with a guy called Johnny Bumphus and Bumhus got koed. Mark was throwing BOMBS in training and in the dressing room warming up. He was up for it and I won about 1500 quid on that fight and that was in 1990. Still my biggest ever gambling score......

[jadeite]

Schmeling knocking out Joe Louis, the latter who was undefeated and considered unbeatable.

[Lefty]

You must be very old. The question presented in the OP was best fight you ever saw  

Odd choice though unless you are German. Louis didn't take the fight seriously and spent more time on the golf course than in the gym in the weeks leading up to the fight. He was far from his best shape. It still took Schmeling 12 rounds to get a KO.

Before their 2nd fight, Louis trained like a man possessed. The results then was one of the shortest championship fights in history. 2 minutes and 4 seconds, and Louis knocked him down 3 times before Schmeling's corner threw in the towel. Max was only able to throw two punches. A Negro had beaten the Aryan Master Race's best fighter. This no doubt infuriated the mad little man with the mustache.

[seamus]

(pentire @ Jun. 04 2010,14:51)

Whens the next "LBF Race Day" Mate ?

Yet to be arranged but we were thinking about 2nd September and Wolverhampton under floodlights.

That would be great, I'll let Esque know & See if I can bring a few of the PI girls up this time

[jadeite]

Schmeling won the first fight fair and square, flooring Louis in an early round and later finishing him off decisively. In the rematch Louis used illegal kidney punches which visibly paralyzed Schmeling. If the fight was not held in the US during the pre-war climate this might have resulted in his disqualification and a second win for Schmeling. Since you want to play the race card, in 68 fights Louis was KO'd only twice in his career, both by whites.

[Lefty]

(jadeite @ Jun. 06 2010,08:55) Schmeling won the first fight fair and square, flooring Louis in an early round and later finishing him off decisively. In the rematch Louis used illegal kidney punches which visibly paralyzed Schmeling. If the fight was not held in the US during the pre-war climate this might have resulted in his disqualification and a second win for Schmeling. Since you want to play the race card, in 68 fights Louis was KO'd only twice in his career, both by whites.

Personally, I never subscribed to the racial superiority bit. My point was Hitler and the Nazis did.


I've heard too the accusations that Louis got away with an illegal kidney punch. I don't know that it has ever been proven one way or the other.

[marshal]

(seamus @ Jun. 04 2010,12:43) 1981 Sugar Ray Leonard V Tommy Hearns " The Show Down" for the world welterweight unification. After 15 rounds & Tommy winning on points on all 3 judges score cards, Sugar ray stepped up a gear & the referee had to stop the contest.

1995 Nigel Benn V Gerald Mc Clellen.
No one gave Nigel Benn a Chance especially not the Americans & Mc Clellen put Benn Through the ropes in the first round, I have to say I thought at that stage it was all over. Benn hit the deck again in the 8TH but then Benn knocked Mc Clellen out in the 10TH. (poor guy just about lived) Has to be one of the hardest battles I have ever watched by a British boxer  

I was too young to really watch Hearns,Hagler,Duran and that era of the fight game but grew up with Collins,Benn,Eubank,Watson and Mcelland.
Some of those super middle fights were brawls! Got too agree with Seamus on the mcelland, can also remember where i was, the same with the watson fight!

I also grew up with Tyson's heyday and that era of heavyweights, but got too love Bruno. That fight with tyson when he really rocked him is a favorite, we all knew big Frank was never going to win that bout, but i am sure he was the first heavyweight to rock Tyson - i could be wrong!

When Frank won the title, we were all on top of the world! He deserved it after all the trying, and probably knowing that he lacked that killer instinct!

Enjoyed Lewis and have early memories of Barry mc fighting!

[marshal]

I wonder if anyone can help. I'm trying to remember the name of a welsh fighter who died in the ring after fighting a latin american. I watched a docu on the fighter and his Dad making a journey to meet the other fighter many years later. They were light fighters probably lightweight or fly weight not too sure? I think the era was the 80s.