Fights You Can't Believe Went the Distance

Tua vs Ibeabuchi

 

Cleveland Williams vs George Chuvalo. The gunshot robbed Williams of much of his durability, and his age at the time of the bout (38) couldn't have helped matters. Chuvalo was a very respectable puncher, and I didn't think Williams would've been able to keep up with his workrate, in the shape and age he was in. He proved me wrong.

 

Sun Kil Moon vs Jose Luis Bueno... I just did not expect Bueno to even survive let alone put on a clinic step aside Tokyo Douglas, Pohang Bueno is king.

 

Holmes vs. Cobb. It became a farce after awhile, Cobb was getting hit so much more than he was giving...

 

Amir Khan vs Marco Maidana was pretty crazy as well to be honest. Khan is a lot of things a coward he is not.

 

I'll give it a watch sometime.

 

It's a good fight. Bueno had a good style and it gelled well with Moon IMO. Bueno's fight with McCullough was great as well.

 

I expected the Spinks Holmes fight to go the distance, but thought the judges would give it to Holmes.

 

Well Alex was a slow starter and the longer the fight went the better he got. Foreman dropped him twice. Took his foot off the peddle because he thought the ref would stop it and it almost bit him in the butt. He should of just jumped on Stewart and got him out of there. Foreman would do this at various times in his comeback. Drop a fighter or hurt them badly and then look at the ref and tried to pity pat the guy until the ref stopped the fight.

The way the media tried to build Mike Tyson up and to see James Tillis go the distance with Mike in a fight I think he won was kind of shocking.

 

Not that shocking. Stewart gave Holyfield hell and George's defense was virtually non existent. Stewart was one of the few 10 types George faced up to that point in his second incarnation.

 

They didn't just go the distance they won.

Young and Tate were simply better boxers than Foreman and Coetzee

Jimmy almost beat Norton the next year then became lackadaisical Tate got caught very late by Weaver and was ruined. Coetzee wasn't the only puncher he beat as he also beat Knotzee.

 

Holyfield/Qawi I

I thought they were rushing Evander. He had only about 10 fights had never even gone 10 rounds.

 

Creed - Balboa I.

Where had this Balboa guy been hiding?

 

If they fought 10 times, Foreman and Coetzee win the other nine.

I stand by that.

Young and Tate certainly wouldn't have won rematches, even. They were pretty much done after those wins. A year after Young defeated a dehydrated Foreman, he was losing to Ossie Ocasio, for Christ's sake.

And Tate didn't finish a fight the year after decisioning Coetzee ... ending both face first on the deck unable to get up. He never beat anyone of note ever again.

Coetzee would've "Leon Spinksed" Tate in a return. Or, at the very least, "Michael Dokesed" him. (LOL)

 

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