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09-02-2017, 09:03 AM
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Veteran
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Location: Lincoln, NE
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Originally Posted by exactatom
Marvin Hagler without a doubt was my favorite fighter. The fight with Hearns is the best fight ever.
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Great call.
I have to go with Arturo Gatti. Guy never had a boring fight. Threw bombs full time, and never backed down.
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09-02-2017, 06:59 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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Chuck Wepner, the Bayone Bleeder.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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09-03-2017, 04:46 AM
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Registered User
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Location: Bossier City, Louisiana
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Roberto Duran.
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09-03-2017, 11:04 AM
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C'est Tout
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Cajunland
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Julio Cesar Chavez
Livingstone Bramble
Aaron Pryor
Rocky Lockridge
Alexis Arguello
can't settle on just one....if I could only choose one it would be Bramble
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09-03-2017, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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1.) Julio Cesar Chavez
2.) Alexis Arguello
3.) Teofilo Stevenson
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Last edited by thaskalos; 09-03-2017 at 11:41 AM.
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09-03-2017, 11:55 AM
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@TimeformUSfigs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Moore, OK
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Speaking of boxing, unlike the PPV last month, really looking forward to Canelo and GGG. I haven't rented a fight in decades, but I might rent that one.
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09-03-2017, 01:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Marvis Frazier
His only two losses were against greats, Holmes and Tyson.
I meet him once and he was a genuinely nice guy and a good son.
He knew when to get out of the game.
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09-03-2017, 01:46 PM
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clean money
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Maryland
Posts: 23,559
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Ali is one of my favorites.
Nice technical breakdown of Ali-Forman:
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09-03-2017, 01:54 PM
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clean money
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Maryland
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“When two men are fighting, what you’re watching is more a contest of wills than of skills, with the stronger will usually overcoming skill. The skill will prevail only when it is so superior to the other man’s skill that the will is not tested….
At times as you see a fellow get tired in the course of a fight, note that he gets tired when pressure builds up, after he gets hurt or he’s been in some kind of doubtful situation, not being able to control the situation. That’s when he starts getting tired. That’s why when two good fighters get to fight, they’re head to head, so to speak, they won’t give an inch and they’re using all their skills and ability, until maybe about the seventh or eight or ninth round, one fighter start to visibly weaken. It only means he’s reached a point where he no longer can stand the pressure. He’s now become dominated, because when two people fight it’s very much like two armies. They seek to impose their will on one another.” - Cus D'Amato
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09-03-2017, 01:57 PM
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Registered User
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Location: Cincinnati,Ohio
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Regardless of if my knowledge of him was only through old VHS tapes, books, and articles, Sugar Ray Robinson. 173 wins-19 losses-6 draws-2 no contests-108 KO's.
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09-03-2017, 02:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Baystater
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Ron Lyle Vs George Foreman 1976. Haymaker fight of the century.
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09-03-2017, 02:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cincinnati,Ohio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
Julio Cesar Chavez
Livingstone Bramble
Aaron Pryor
Rocky Lockridge
Alexis Arguello
can't settle on just one....if I could only choose one it would be Bramble
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My uncles told me everyone avoided Pryor. But we might have a Cincinnati bias! I remember some of his fights and he was vicious. Met him at Findlay street gym years ago. My uncle Bob has an autographed pic of him when he met him in a bar.
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09-03-2017, 04:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Houston , Tx.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyb
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Best fight I've ever watched. Both absorbed a huge amount of punishment, but just wouldn't give up. Neither fighter was ever the same again, before Foreman returned in later years.
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09-03-2017, 06:33 PM
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Resurrectionist
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
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Roberto Duran
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09-03-2017, 09:32 PM
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Grinding at a Poker Table
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by exactatom
Marvin Hagler without a doubt was my favorite fighter.
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Mine also.
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