Best HW wins

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  1. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm not reading a 4chan fanfic, but I'm glad you put so much effort into thinking about my post.
     
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  2. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    Nothing new under the sun
     
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  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Elder abuse should not qualify.
     
    Seamus, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Beating up a washed up Hollywood resident who hadn't competed in years in a ten rounder in the rain? Meh.
     
    Seamus, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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  5. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    You forgot cum drained, only question is who drained him?

    Rickard, **** you doin?!
     
    Melankomas, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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  6. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Exactly. And it's still a fanfic. Glad we agree.
     
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  7. McGrain

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    It's interesting, the big heavy wins. Frazier over Ali is compromised by Ali's inactivity. Rahman over Lewis is compromised by Lewis's prep. McCall over Lewis is compromised by pre-Steward plus the stoppage. Schmeling's win over Louis is compromised by Louis's attitude to the fight. Spinks's win over Holmes is compromised by the controversy surrounding the decision and his age. Foreman's win over Frazier is compromised around the damage done to Frazier and his illness in FOTC. The list goes on and on. There's a shortage of very clean big wins. Maybe it really is Foreman's ye olde man win.
     
    McGrain, Aug 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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  8. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    lol
     
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  9. Seamus

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    No match-up is perfectly balanced and clean. But the fighters sign on the line that is dotted, knowing what they are getting into. One assumes they most often do so with the idea of winning.

    That said, I have long thought the Ali inactivity trope is overplayed. He had stopped a very good Quarry not long after Quarry took Mac Foster's O, and then provided Bonavena with the only stoppage defeat in a 68 fight career. He wasn't even 30 years old, a pup by today's heavyweight standards.
     
    Seamus, Aug 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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  10. McGrain

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    :lol: well, yes.
     
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  11. cuchulain

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    Some of those 'comprisings' seem a bit trite.

    If we buy these as compromises, then there has probably never been a 'clean' win in the history of heavyweight boxing.
     
    cuchulain, Aug 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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  12. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Liston-Patterson, and Ali-Foreman are also three fights I'd add to this very short list.
     
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  13. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    I don't know you understand what fanfic means.
     
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  14. JohnThomas1

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    It's mind-boggling enough to read as a fairy tale, really.

    At any rate Foreman's decimation of Frazier is certainly top 5, ever. How deep you go into the five is personal preference.
     
    JohnThomas1, Aug 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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  15. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 MONZON VS HAGLER 2025 Full Member

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    … it’s like… Douglas > Tyson, Schemling > Louis and Frazier > Ali?
     
    Journeyman92, Aug 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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