Best comebacks in boxing

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  1. Which were the biggest comebacks in boxing history. Like a fighter gets dominated badly throughout a fight, maybe knocked down once or twice, and still manages to win the fight in the end.

    For example

    Jorge Castro knocking out John David Jackson.

    Jorge Castro was down 8 rounds to 0, had zero momentum, and was busted up bleeding when he kayoed Jackson in the midst of getting pummeled.
     
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    Foreman over Moorer
     
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    Weaver over Tate.
     
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    corrales vs castillo
    Froch vs Taylor
     
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    Lewis over Bruno
     
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    Can't think of one more dramatic...others that come to minds: Ali v Foreman, or Ali v Spinks II...
     
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    Juan Manuel Marquez knocking out Manny Pacquiao in the sixth round. That was one of the best.
     
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    That was one of my favourite comebacks. Castro was one seriously hard man and he'd taken a real steady pounding from Jackson up until he pulled it out of the fire. I remember reading that Castro barely ever trained properly, sometimes not at all, but he had a great chin on him and a big heart.

    I used to have copy of the British broadcast of that fight back in the day. I think it was Reg Gutteridge who did the commentary. I remember him saying that it was surely all over after Jackson caught him with that big left hand that sent him staggering backwards - the classic commentator's curse. lol.

    Some of Gatti's comebacks were great too.
     
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    Corrales-Castillo?
     
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    Bobby Chacon vs. Every opponent he fought.
     
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    Julian Jackson v Herol Graham. Graham was doing a very nice job of boxing Jackson before The Hawk scored possibly the greatest ko ever.
     
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    Julian Jackson vs Herol Graham via the most brutal of KO's.
     
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    Moore vs Durelle - dropped 4 times, 3 times in the first round yet came back to stop Durelle

    Jackson vs Graham - dominated, unable to see and on the verge of being stopped, one of the most memorable KO's ever

    Tompson vs Rothmann - my personal favourite, past his best, being battered on the ropes, on the verge of being stopped, yet pulls out a trademark KO from behind, brutal shot, Rothmann out cold before he hit the canvas

    Williams vs Potter - Williams has a dislocated right arm and is losing the fight yet with one arm pulls out the KO, remarkable and unique comeback
     
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    Ahh just beat me to it.
     
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