One of the most underrated trilogies in modern boxing. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18NgKiWCU18[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjoLaP3IXk[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mMYkGlIF-k[/ame] If you havent seen them have a watch as they're really entertaining fights. Props to WayneBedfre & FightFranchise for the uploads.
Thought I'd give this a quick bump just in case anybody else fancies a butchers. Not the greatest boxing skills I know but for heart and determination these were some great fights. Andries' KO of Harding in the second fight has to be one of the funniest I've seen, a ridiculous haymaker. Steward and Andries had to be one of the oddest trainer-boxer partnerships in boxing. Andries was crude, wild and completely one dimensional, I suppose Steward saw him as a challenge and it paid off, he succeeded in teaching an old dog some new tricks. It might not get remembered like his work with Hearns or Lennox but he did just as well taking Andries up a level and to two more world titles. Well I think so anyway.
I thought Andries won the third fight, or at least got a draw. Bad decision IMO. Harding appeared to "quit" in the second fight, which is quite surprising given how much determination and will he showed in their first fight (and every other fight in his career). I never really thought much of Harding; he always looked to me like just a big, strong clubfighter. Andries looked like the better fighter throughout their series, despite officially losing 2 out of 3.
Great series of fights. Two hardened warriors. Andries bounced back like a star the second time, but I thought Harding just shaded the decider. Hard fight to score though. Harding never looked all that great afterwards. Really struggled with Vedder etc
One of the rare cases where the underdog of each of the 3 fights went on to be the winner. The third fight was very close,but I think that Andries was unlucky not to have kept his title. Very entertaining trilogy.
I went to the third fight. As the defending champion, fighting in his own country, there is no way Andries should of lost his title after that performance.
I agree about Andries looking the better fighter, the first fight he was at his best despite getting stopped, he worked behind the jab more and scored with some good straight rights but Harding took them. Andries just punched himself out and ran out of steam. He didnt look so good in the second fight until he nailed Harding in the seventh and Harding just looked like he'd had enough. The third fight was tough to score. The problem was you could see Andries, now 40 was saving his energy in the middle rounds which allowed Harding to pile up points with light punches. Andries certainly landed the harder, cleaner punches, which is true of the whole series. It could have gone either way but I think Andries probably deserved a draw.
For some ****ed up reason, I have NONE of them fights on file / copy....... Why? I ****ed up.......... BUT! Anyone who has the series on file and in good shape, I'd love to be mailed the material...... atsch:thumbsup MR.BILL:good