Examples of ring intelligence winning fights?

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  1. cyrax99

    cyrax99 The Greatest Full Member

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    What are some examples of ring intelligence being the difference in a fight? The two that come to mind for me are:

    Ali - Foreman | The rope a dope tactic.

    Corrales - Castillo | Corrales spitting out his mouth piece after both knockdowns, and taking the point deduction in return getting extra recovery time. You may consider it cheap, but it was the sole reason he had enough time to recover and come back to knock Castillo out IMO.
     
  2. Ripper11

    Ripper11 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  3. PivotPunch

    PivotPunch Guest

    I assume we're talking about pure in the ring intelligence and not technical skills that a fighter possesed all the time?
    Maybe Alvarado-Rios II, Alvarado is no boxing genius but he made the right adjustements in the rematch which Rios failed to do
     
  4. LikeFatherNSon

    LikeFatherNSon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hopkins-Trinidad
    Nelson-Fenech II
    Leonard-Duran II
    Holyfield-Tyson I
     
  5. cyrax99

    cyrax99 The Greatest Full Member

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    Leonard - Duran II is a good shout, the taunting and showboating destroyed Duran's mentality.
     
  6. Boxalot

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    Leonard vs Hagler - Both before the fight was made, and during the fight itself.
    Hopkins in every fight he's won for the last 5 or 6 years.
     
  7. Kingkazim

    Kingkazim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hokins vs Cloud recently
     
  8. Ljc

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    Duran vs Barkley
     
  9. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Marco Antonio Barrera-Naseem Hamed with Barrera changing his style(he had already rehearsed it in previous fights but this is the most notorious one) from a come forward brawler which would probably lead him to a knockout loss to a patient boxer boxing of his backfoot and behind his jab looking to counter and to prey on any mistake Hamed made, that strategy lead to the biggest victory of his career and one of the best if not the best performance of his career.


    Bernard Hopkins-Felix Trinidad- Leading up to the fight Hopkins would go on and on about that the only chance he would have to win was to make it an ugly, dirty inside fight and that was what most observers including Trinidad were expecting but instead of doing that he did the opposite he used his footwork and boxed from the outside beating Tito to the punch, everytime Tito got his feet set to punch Hopkins would hit him with a lead right hand and move leaving Tito hitting nothing but air, he did that round after round making the pre-fight favorite Tito look like he didnt belong there,then he put the finisihing touch of his masterpiece in the 12th and last round when he closed the show like the great champion he was knocking out the undefeated Trinidad, winning the middleweight tourney, going straight to the top of every pound for pound list and most importantly getting the recognition he waited so long for . I find most of Hopkins fights to be boring but this was one of the most impressive displays of boxing i have ever seen.
     
  10. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Not a flattering example but Oscar getting on his bike? :conf

    Gotta admit it was savvy recognition on his part. "I can't let Felix touch me after gassing, hell no..."

    Of course, it didn't net the official W (although on most fair cards...) - but did spare him a debate-free KO loss...
     
  11. OvergrownGnome

    OvergrownGnome HARRYYOSO Full Member

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  12. andrewa1

    andrewa1 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Ali Foreman will always be the classic example and is as important a reason as any why Ali should be regarded as GOAT.
     
  13. nicamarvin

    nicamarvin Guest

    Bernard Hopkins Last fight... his Ring IQ is what got him that Belt... not that he was faster or stronger than his younger oponent... :bbb
     
  14. nicamarvin

    nicamarvin Guest

    are you out of your mind? Rigo put on a Boxing clinic not only on Ring IQ alone.. he is the better Boxer and one of the most gifted boxer you have seen in boxing history... thats why
     
  15. Sweet Jones

    Sweet Jones Boxing Addict Full Member

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    - Mosley beginning to move and box midway through the first ODLH fight
    - Corales fighting 'taller' and more controlled with the jab in the Casamayor rematch.
    - Cotto's selective use of the low blow against Judah.