Anticipation v Reality

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  1. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    What are some examples of the following:

    Matchups that had classic written all over them and turned out to be snoozefests?

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    Matchups that had snoozefest written all over them and turned out to be classics?
     
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  2. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Mike Spinks vs Dwight Braxton-1 right hand rocket turned it into a du d.
     
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  3. George Crowcroft

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    For the first, without a really long think, which I will have.
    I'll say Tito vs Hoya, not boring, but hardly the classic it was expected to be.

    And for the second, Byrd vs Golota is one that jumps out.

    But I'll have a longer thread and revisit, great thread concept Jel!
     
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  4. The Morlocks

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    MANCINI VS. KIM-Ray was supposed to crush in 2 or 3 rds. Instead great yet tragic fight.
     
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    SALVADOR SANCHEZ VS AZUMAH NELSON -No 13-0 nobody would trouble Sanchez!
     
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    FOREMAN VS LYLE- Ron was supposed to be crushed like Joe, Ken & everyone but Ali.
    Speaking of which-FOREMAN VS ALI
     
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    HAGLER VS MUGABI- Who knew Mugabi had such talent and chin? Who knew Hagler was so slow immobile and elderly? I know one person that noticed and made a 20,000,000 bet he was right!!!!!!
     
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  8. West of Hollywood

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    Trinidad - DLH was the most disappointing big fight I ever saw. Duran-Leonard III was awful too, but at least they were past their primes.
     
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    I gotta tell ya, except for the ending, I find Leonard vs Hearns 1 BORING. DEVOID OF ACTION EXCEPT IN THE MIND OF VIEWERS WITHE BOXER PUNCHER TRADE OFF BULL****. FOR ACTUAL ACTION, PAINT DRYING IS MORE FUN. It is right thete with Duran-Benitez. Hearns-Benitez and Hagler-Leonard for overrated tedium. If it was 2 unknowns, you'd turn the tv off.
     
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  10. PhillyPhan69

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    Hopkins RJJ I was the among the worst non-fight fights I have ever seen!
     
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  11. roughdiamond

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    Just at the weekend, the snooze-fest I expected Selby vs Burns to be was actually quite entertaining and evenly competitive.
     
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  12. Jel

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    Nobody was expecting a titanic back and forth struggle but were they expecting it to be dull? Genuine question here - you know the background to this way better than me!
     
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  13. Jel

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    There's some truth I'd say in the final statement. I do get where you're coming from but I love fights where the momentum shifts one way and then the other so that's where the drama lies - Hearns comfortably winning the early rounds, Leonard battering him in 6 and 7, Hearns outboxing Leonard into the championship rounds and then Leonard coming from behind to stop him. I don't think it's a top 10 fight of all time by any stretch (top 10 matchup of all time maybe) but the drama lay in the fight narrative rather than the in-ring action.
     
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  14. Richard M Murrieta

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    I saw that live on The CBS Sports Spectacular, in 1982, so true,it ended in tragedy.
     
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    Frankie Lilles v Tim Littles 2:
    They'd already boxed an uneventful fight a few years earlier that Littles had won comfortably so this one was met with zero anticipation. Cue multiple knockdowns in the first couple of rounds with both fighters getting dropped before Lilles delivered a devastating one punch kayo in the third. A closet classic.
     
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