Best Performance in a Decision Win Ever

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  1. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What the greatest decision performance in the history of boxing ever? This is not just the best win, but best performance. Which means if there's no footage of the fight, it's real hard to justify.

    Weighting is as follow:

    1. /10 Quality of Opponent at time of fight (ranking, previous fight, etc.)
    2. /10 Quality of Offense demonstrated
    3. /10 Quality of Defense demonstrated
    4. /10 Dominance/Wideness of win
    5. /10 Extra points for: overcoming stylistic disadvantage, knockdowns, etc.

    Example: Duran over Leonard

    1. 9/10 quality of leonard
    2. 9.5/10 offense
    3. 8.5/10 defense
    4. 4/10 dominance
    5. 8/10 for overcoming physical disadvantages

    Total: 39/50
     
    Nightcrawler, Mar 2, 2012
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  2. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    I'll nominate Fighting Harada in Harada-Jofre I for starters.
     
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  3. Moochie

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    Leonard was merely a 9/10 for you? I'd put dominance at something like 7, personally.
     
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  4. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    he gets 9 for being a TINY bit green at the time of the fight. that wasn't the best leonard, who was a 10. i agree with dominance at 7 (i had it wide for duran, last time about 5 points ahead) but the consensus is it was very tight. i bowed to the consensus unfortunately
     
    Nightcrawler, Mar 2, 2012
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  5. Moochie

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    I wouldn't say Leonard was green. He'd looked as good as he ever would in his previous 4 fights, including the best performance of his career against Benitez.
     
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  6. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    fair enough:good i personally think he improved after duran, learning from the loss but it's splitting hairs
     
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  7. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    How did he improve exactly after the Duran fight?
     
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  8. KuRuPT

    KuRuPT Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I would nominate Pea vs. Nelson... I don't think it gets much more dominating a victory than that, against a world class foe...
     
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  9. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think he became a better judge of when he was winning, when he losing and when he had to step on the gas. Seems he developed that ali like intuition of knowing what was needed to get the win
     
    Nightcrawler, Mar 2, 2012
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  10. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Fair points as he demonstrated this in the Hearns fight. But I think he had showed this previously in the Benitez fight
     
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  11. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    true, but it was much more dramatic with hearns :p i see your point, though i still feel he perfected this skill post duran.
     
    Nightcrawler, Mar 2, 2012
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  12. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    I tend to think fighters get a little less credit for beating a 'green' fighter than they should. I mean Ernesto Marcel beating Alexis Arguello, and this are two prime examples of it. I mean Ray Leonard and Arguello were great fighters at the time, especially Leonard.
     
    GPater11093, Mar 2, 2012
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  13. Legend X

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    Roy Jones against James Toney has to be up there.
     
    Legend X, Mar 3, 2012
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  14. Flea Man

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    That Arguello had already laid waste to Legra inside a round. And IMO upped the pace like he'd have had to catch up to Marcel, an urgency that he sometimes failed to outwardly express at least as he became a more rounded and methodical puncher using his patience and poise to pick holes in his opponent and land the right punches.

    Brilliant win for Marcel IMO, especially considering the ebb and flow of the contest. Alexis was there IMO.
     
    Flea Man, Mar 3, 2012
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  15. Flea Man

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    Anyway, I'll go Khaokor Galaxy-Sung-Kil Moon II, naturally.
     
    Flea Man, Mar 3, 2012
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