Any good Mike McCallum fight recommendations

Mike Mccallum vs Michael Watson
Mccallum put on a clinic of how to wearing down an opponent nine years younger and impose himself in the final rounds with a categorical victory by knockout...
He was simply brilliant in this fight.

 

He’s latter years are a wealth of knowledge to see.

 

Most of my favorites have been mentioned but the Collins fight was another great performance. Collins was younger, bigger and stronger but Mccallum just took control like he always did.

 

He put himself on the map with a one-sided battering of Ayub Kalule. That's worth checking out.

For high intensity chess matches both Kalambay fights are a must, as is Watson and any of his junior middleweight title defenses.

 

I’ll have to check to see if the Kalule fight is on YouTube or somewhere. Never saw it.

 

It's there, or at least was.

 

Good calls.

I’ll just say the first Kalumbay fight (in particular) underscores just how good Sumbu was because I don’t think McCallum nor anyone else disputes the decision. It was a masterclass of boxing against a masterclass boxer.

 

Watson and the Kalambay rematch. Those two are musts.

 

It's been a few years since I watched it, but without echoing what anyone else has said I'd probably quietly recommend the Skouma fight. Skouma was a good fighter, talented and very offensively well-schooled and hard-hitting but somehow less than the sum of his parts with a tendency to lose fights that he should have won. He does good some good work early on but McCallum just steadily uses his full range of tools, superior toughness and mentality to slowly break Skouma down and stop him.

 

The Kalule fight is the one I was about to suggest.
He put on a clinic, especially to the body in that
fight.

 

Michael Watson is a good one. It's a fight where Watson actually came in as the favourite for his ko of Benn.
He tries his best against McCallum but Mike s just a level or two above him.

 

Absolutely brilliant.

 

A bit of a left-field pick but his light heavy title win over Jeff Harding showed what a good fighter he was by beating a natural light heavy when he himself wasn’t even a big middleweight.

 

I will give you some interesting fights;

His fight with Nickey Walker was a fight showing his precision for and landing combinations from all angles.
His fight with Randall Yonker was what happens when a tough decent pro meets a master pro fighter. Watch how calculated Mike is as he dismantles Yonker.

Early fight with Braxton shows Mikes patience and body punching.

Earlier fight with Kevin Perry shows Mikes combinations and defense.