Boxing's Modern Classic: Holyfield-Bowe

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  1. tezel8764

    tezel8764 Boxing Junkie banned

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    Excerpts from Bert Sugar's ESPN Article

    In the first fight, the two battled as if getting hit was a charge against their honor, almost in an if-you-hit-me-again-and-I-find-out-about-it-you're-in-trouble fashion, giving us one of the greatest rounds in boxing history, the tenth. Any efforts at defense had about as much effect as a fig leaf at a nudists' convention. It got so one ringside observer commented: "If these guys were lawyers they could say, "the defense rests."

    Bowe handed Evander his first defeat and won the heavyweight title in that first battle-slash-war, but one week short of a year later, Evander would return the favor, winning back the heavyweight championship and administering the first loss to Bowe in a bout which produced enough ebbs and flows to thrill even the most hardened of boxing fans -- including one of the weirdest happenings in all of boxing history: the unexpected intrusion of the "Fan Man."

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  2. Bobo

    Bobo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    ****ing war
     
  3. floyd_g.o.a.t

    floyd_g.o.a.t Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  4. forddog33

    forddog33 New Member Full Member

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    when a man does something like that it means it was a big deal fight.the klits need not worry.
     
  5. crager

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    Epic battles. I remember watching the first one live at a bar on a big screen.
     
  6. damian38

    damian38 BigDramaShow Full Member

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    one of the best trilogies in the history of boxing, right next to Ali-Fraizer and Gatti-Ward
     
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  8. Post Box

    Post Box I'm back too, bitches Full Member

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    Ridiculous how Holyfield survived the uppercut in round 10 and was even taking it to Bowe towards the closing seconds of the round.
     
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