Fighters who had their finest hour in losing efforts

Aturo Gatti vs Micky Ward I

 

Golota vs Bowe - peak point of Andrew's career

 

Not picking on you, but what????

Kelley had the boxing world at his feet, a seemingly could not miss Superstar after the Vargas fight.

Sure he was sometimes very entertaining, not least against Naseem, but he was never quite the same post Gonzales IMO.

 

:goodthat's my boy addie

 

A bit mainstream cliche, the Robinson fights were better performances and fights.

 

:twisted:respectfully disagree. it's splitting hairs with the human highlight reel but gatti/ward 1 was his opus to violence. the robinson, patterson, ruelas fights were brilliant...but round 9 is the best round in boxing history and seals the deal

 

Come on, Arturo and Micky were brave performers and not without ability, and their styles meshed famously to give us the excellent first fight and mighty fine second and third fights, but they lacked the class to have a single round of brilliance of say the level of Hagler and Hearns.

 

Gatti will be most remembered for the first Ward fight...I don't see how anyone could debate otherwise.

 

Best remembered yes, but his finest moment was in defeat to Ivan Robinson in their first fight, IMO.

 

I think that's debatable.

 

Which is why we are doing so! Gatti looked a class act and was a darling of the boxing media until the Manfredy fight. He was disregarded as a spent force, but Gatti redeemed his reputation in defeat against Robinson.

 

john did you see this fight with robinson against levine? was robinson really down for 22 seconds?

 

Mancini vs Arguello?

 

Armando Muniz in the 1st Napoles fight
Edwin Rosario against Chavez
Venice Borkorsor against Rafael Herrera
George Chuvalo in the '65 fight of the year against Patterson
Juan Diaz against Juan Manuel Marquez
Billy Graham in the 3rd Gavilan fight

Scartissue

 

Billy Conn 170lbs winning the fight with the 200pound Joe Louis, going into the 13th
round, when the Brown Bomber finall caught up to Conn..Great effort by the much smaller Conn...