Billy Conn vs John Conteh

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Man, Barrera>Galindez by a streak.
     
  2. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    Barrera is oen of the few post-50s greats to have been starched AND thoroughly whipped,dominated and demoralised in his prime.Maybe the first since Kingpetch.

    Get it right up ye.

    He'd have been just another routine competitive decision win for big Vic.While splitting a great series with Yaqui Lopez and winning one against Jesse BUrnett at the forum(burnett arguably robbed in at least one though) and a shocking one-sided beating to Marvin Johnson when he tries to play languid matador without the necessary skills or will to adapt.:yep
     
  3. lora

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    Then Spinks would come along and mop up a faded version despite losing 4 of the first 5 rounds.And take all the credit.
     
  4. McGrain

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    Only if you subscribe to the notion that every fighter post Whitaker is a tired jerk circle organised around a life-size statue of Ayub Kalule trying pitifully to "do a feint" between painful, chaffed orgasms. For those of us that understand that Manny Pacquio and Floyd Mayweather are better than most of what has gone before and fighters like Naseem Hamed and Junior Jones are themselves a step above most of the men Galindez beat, there are no such complications.
     
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  6. McGrain

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  7. lora

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    Were you a Hamed man back in the day then?

    I always wanted to see him get beat, more out of my dislike for Brendan Ingle than him though to be honest.Kind of lost interest when they split up.
     
  8. LittleRed

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    Isn't kalule the guy who was knocked out by a guy with less fights than fingers?
     
  9. lora

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    You've gone too far.
     
  10. McGrain

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    Same as Mayweather, did not care for him but thought he was brilliant.
     
  11. lora

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    Wasted talent really considering he had natural power and leverage most fighters dream of.Think a fight with Barrera would have been much more entertaining a few years earlier, even though i still Marco the edge.

    Just to invite the cliche though, i still kind of preferred Herol Graham to him, though ironically he's a "could have been special with power" sort of fighter in that style.Grham incidentally would have struggled to defeat a prime Kalule.:yep
     
  12. Flea Man

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    No way was Junior Jones that good.
     
  13. McGrain

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    Obviously i was joking around, but I think he was better than Kosie Smith.
     
  14. Stevie G

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    Good to see you back,Frankie ! Still mangling the English language,I see. :D
     
  15. Flea Man

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    I'm lost but Galindez didn't lose to Smith twice.