Dirty Fighting 101: Low Blows, Headbutts, Late Hits, Elbows, Etc..

No Herol Graham Judo Slam!?

 

missed Ali-wepner rabbit shots

 

Bomber Graham, was robbed, if you were silly enough to get that low, you deserved to be thrown.:hey

Graham paid a heavy (ish) prize for that tactic, it cost him at least a draw against the Bodysnatcher for the WBA Championship...

 

Shocker... Bowe, Hopkins, Golota...

It really must be recognized what a piece of **** Riddick Bowe was inside the ring. A dirty fighter even when he had things wrapped up.

 

These tactics don't surprise me, where's Ali's "measuring and holding" he did that **** all the time. Just like Lennox, not nearly as obvious.

 

Don't forget Ali's hold the ropes and punch or hold an opponent's head and punch techniques, all while hamming it up for the judges. Ughh... He was such a shitty fighter in the mid to late 70's, a punching bag with half-ass jab and the judge's undying affection. Worst era ever for the division.

 

Yeah, him and Lennox Lewis were the same in that regard. Maybe a blessing that they never fought each other.
Lewis still whines to this day that Holyfield butted him. I guess being so tall Lewis never got to fully develop that skill. He had little trouble stooping down to hit his man on the floor though, so who knows.

Bruno develop into a fairly foul fighter too. Rabbit punching and holding-and-hitting made up the best part of his repertoire in later years.

 

Incredible leap over ropes and hairdo at 1:23

 

I guess I was in a shitty mood when I wrote that. Pretty much all the HW champs fought dirty... Lewis (his favorite combo was... hold your head, uppercut, lean on your shoulder until you fall), Holyfield (king of the head butt), Tyson (nuff said), Bowe, Holmes (of the sharpest elbows in boxing), Ali, Foreman, Liston (what's on your gloves, Sonny?), Marciano... Maybe Patterson was clean. I don't watch his silly defenses too often.

 

You forgot Dempsey.

 

His 3rd fight with Johansson, if I remember rightly he scored the KO with a rabbit punch. Wasn't the first he'd ever thrown either.

 

I stopped at Marciano, but yeah...

I don't remember Louis being particularly dirty, but do you have to be dirty to beat Johnny Paycheck?

Baer could certainly bend the rules, though he got a lesson on rule bending from Galento.

Tunney was clean and gentlemanly, almost sickeningly so. Maybe that many rounds with Greb makes you some kind of saint.

 

Yes, Louis fought quite clean. He was merciless though !
Frazier was amazingly clean for a fighter of his style, intensity and attitude.

 

You're right about Joe. If I was 5'11, 200+ lbs. and getting pushed away by George Foreman like that I'd probably hit him in the nuts. I don't understand why he didn't at least complain about the pushing in the first Foreman fight...