John Conteh's best performance?

either of the finnegan fights or a fight he had with preacher lewis in73'
one punch ko with his right hand.. bang...:bbb fight over

 

The Jorge Ahumada fight in '74. Imo,that was the best we ever saw of John. He never fulfilled his full potential. He was good enough. Just think how good he could have been.

 

i never saw his fight with Saad but i heard it was a war

 

He had quite a few, IMO. The Ahumada fight was probably the fight where he we truly saw what he was made of more than any other, though. I thought the first Finnegan fight was a boxing masterclass, as was his fight with Yaqui Lopez where he was essentially one-handed. And despite the fact that he was past his prime, his first fight with Saad showed him relive some of his better boxing moments prior to fading down the stretch.

 

You would find it tough to go wrong with anything pre-Parlov..
I didn't think finnegan won more than 2 or 3 rounds against him and maybe none clearly.The commentating, although good was far too generous to him.

Schmidtke just got slowly dismantled and almost certainly ruined as a fighter.

Ahumada was a terrific fight against an excellent, more experienced fighter who was favourite to win by many

 

:goodyeah,he really broke schmidtke up

 

in one of my dads old boxing news on the front cover is conteh and monzon saying it close to happening, one of the best fights not to happen in the 1970's

 

did your dad ever see conteh fight in the stadium ??

 

he saw john box a few times, by dads from london, isnt the stadium in liverpool?

 

Despite the last two rounds, Conteh's first fight with Saad was as good as you can be in a competitive fight, past prime, barely able to throw the right, against an ATG light-heavy :deal

 

Right, he went 15 tough rounds against a very tough opponent who had just been screwed out of the lightheavy title with that b.s. "draw" vs. Bob Foster. It was a significant quality win for Conteh and put him in the "15 round club" in the process.

 

yes it is.sorry ,my mistake,i read your post wrong :nut

 

that black cement the corner men used on saad's eye was brilliant.if illegal

 

the second finnegan fight was a brutal conteh