Biggest Boxing Lessions you've ever witnessed in a fight?

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  1. Dorset

    Dorset New Member banned Full Member

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    Doesn't have to be a wide points decision, can be a KO or TKO or a straight knockout, but what's the best performances where a fighter has shown the levels to a seemingly well matched opponent

    Ones that spring to my mind:

    Joe Calzaghe vs Jeff Lacy
    Vasily Lomachenko vs Nicholas Walters
    Vasily Lomachenko vs Guillermo Rigondeaux
    Josh Taylor vs O'Hara Davies
    Carl Froch vs Lucien Bute
    Floyd Mayweather vs Canelo Alvarez
    Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua 1
    Oleksandr Usyk vs Murat Gassiev
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Naseem Hamed
    Billy Joe Saunders vs David Lemieux
     
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  2. BadmanIsRobbin

    BadmanIsRobbin New Member Full Member

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    Tank Davis v Ryan Walsh
    Watson v Benn
    Honeyghan v Curry
     
  3. Beale

    Beale Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Plenty over the years but in the heavyweight division we have seen many recent lessons including:

    Andy Ruiz Jnr v Anthony Joshua 1
    Usyk v Fury twice
    Usyk v Joshua twice
    Fury v Whyte
    Fury v Chisora 3 times
    David Price v Dave Allen
    Zhang v Joyce twice
     
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  4. Simon Says

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    Dubois Joshua has to be up there. Joshua was outjabbed, outchinned, overpowered, and everything else. Dubois had a good variety of punching going in to Joshua.

    The Fury Chisora 2 was as much of a schooling as anybody could see
     
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  5. LeavemealoneKoooogs

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    My personal favourite was Shane Mosley VS Margarito, even if he hadn't been rumbled in the dressing room I don't think Margs had a prayer against Shane that night.
     
  6. Sonny1

    Sonny1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think he did with granite in his hands sadly mate. Love that fight and brutal knockout Shane gave him.
     
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  7. boxberry92

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    I enjoyed the night when Herol Graham turned back the clock and schooled Chris Johnson, who was being hyped by Maloney at the time, but I have to agree with the post from when Mosley battered Margarito.

    That was justice served cold, especially after the Cotto fight; I also enjoyed when Cotto got his revenge in the rematch, and just stood their like Duran when the fight was called off.

    Margarito took his licks in those later fights, but there is no excuse for what he did and tried to do.
     
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  8. BadmanIsRobbin

    BadmanIsRobbin New Member Full Member

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    Cotto v Mike Jennings was hard to watch and Jennings always seemed a top fella seeing him get beat like that was horrible..

    Howard Clarke took a pasting too from memory.. Was it Vargas?

    John Murray too copping it off Rios.
     
  9. Sonny1

    Sonny1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He didn’t take a pasting and the knockdowns were not hard, hence why he was clapping him 2 seconds after the fight was stopped. The was one of Nando’s softest performances.
     
  10. Here's Johnny

    Here's Johnny Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mad how Chisora got 3 fights with Fury! I always forget, it’s absurd.
     
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  11. ZiggyBowie

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    Lewis v Tua

    Lewis put on a boxing master class and exposed Tua.
     
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  12. ZiggyBowie

    ZiggyBowie Member Full Member

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    Harsh on Fury, as both were close fights, I might be in a minority, but I still think Fury did enough to win the first fight which was certainly very close.
    Usyk won the second fight but agin it was close.
     
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  13. dannyboy147

    dannyboy147 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Froch v Bute won me about a grand, great odds on Froch KO. Think roundabout the same time I win big on Hatton losing to Senchenko I think it was. At that time I’d just had my first kid so a grand was like a million bucks to me!

    JMM v Diaz (baby bull) was a great beat down.
     
  14. Beale

    Beale Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Fury was lucky not to be stopped in the first fight and Usyk was wearing his slippers in the 2nd fight cruising to a comfortable points win.

    In the words of the Fury Family - 'the gappy tooth little middleweight' exposed 'there is no man on the planet that can beat my son'.

    Usyk won both fights despite 'being too small' and 'Fury being far too big'.

    Biggest lessons ever

    1. John Fury talks shyte.
    2. Cowardly headbutting by fathers out of the ring has zero impact on fights in the ring.
    3. Men with Gappy Teeth can win fights.
    4. Father time catches up with all athletes abusing their bodies and not living the life of a boxer.
     
  15. boxberry92

    boxberry92 Active Member Full Member

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    This is another one I remember from back in the day. At the time, Paul Lloyd was the British, Commonwealth, and European champion, yet that night Barrera demonstrated his superior class and delivered a masterclass.

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