The best evenly matched infighting displays

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  1. masterold

    masterold Active Member Full Member

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    The best back and forth displays of infighting, no one sided master classes:

    My pick, Whitaker vs McGirt
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Jimmy Carter UD10 Percy Bassett
     
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  3. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Chocolate-Canzoneri I.
     
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  4. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The Stevie Johnston vs. Jose Luis Castillo fights are good in this regard.

    Stevie Johnston and Cesar Bazan I too.

    Castillo vs. Corrales as well, though with a bit less technical precision and more brutality.
     
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  5. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    Nelson-Fenech I have some extended sequences of top quality stuff...but for the most part it wasn't evenly matched.
     
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  6. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lou Ambers and Henry Armstrong...Oh my...
     
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  7. AREA 53

    AREA 53 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Always wanted to see Chuvalo Vs Bonavena which i gather, unsurprisingly was Toe to Toe
    - Bonavena - Frazier (1st) of course springs to mind
    Bennie Briscoe vs Eugene Hart - The War Draw
    Gomez vs Pintor
    Frank Animal Flecther Vs Ernie Singletary was a minor Slugfest
     
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  8. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Most fights involving the likes of Gaspar Ortega, Jose Stable and Charley Scott will show you some good infighting in evenly poised matches.

    Those guys loved to stand in close and go to work. Touching gloves didn't signal the readiness to engage for them, standing within arm's length of their opponent with their feet planted did.

    It's a pity there aren't more fighters of that ilk anymore. James Toney was probably the last really good one....

    Of a fight of more recent vintage that had some good even exchanges on the inside, Frankie Randall vs. Julio Cesar Chavez I and perhaps even II probably qualify.

    Another good infighting scrap is Julio Cesar Vasquez vs. Aaron Davis.

    Vasquez vs. Castillejo had some bruising exchanges as well, though imo Vasquez mugged him a little on the inside...
     
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  9. techks

    techks ATG list Killah! Full Member

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    Hopkins-Mercado I was pretty damn fun.
     
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  10. SouthpawJab

    SouthpawJab On his way up!! 4-0!! Full Member

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    Toney-McCallum...just great stuff from both guys.
     
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  11. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Really, it wasn't as toe to toe as you might think. Bonavena used a surprisingly effective "boxing" style, and at times looked like a clumsy heavyweight Willie Pep in there.
     
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  12. Lord Tywin

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  13. Wass1985

    Wass1985 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Holyfield vs bowe as got to be up there
     
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  14. AREA 53

    AREA 53 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    RED - I think you have just made History ! - Mentioning Willie Pep and Oscar Bonavena in the same sentence !!
     
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  15. Vic-JofreBRASIL

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    :deal
     
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