Best Speed vs Power Fights

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    Name some of the best speed vs power fights that there are in boxing history.
     
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    Rosario vs Camacho
     
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    Whitaker vs Nelson
     
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    Rosario vs Davis
     
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    Ali-Liston
    Chavez-Taylor
     
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    Terry Norris vs Simon Brown 1 and 2 .....Norris thought he was the puncher in the first fight and had to be reminded who was who
     
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    Kevin Kelly vs Goya Vargas
     
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    Sergio Martinez vs Kelly Pavlik
     
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    Ali's whole career was full of these: first Liston, followed by Patterson (scratch that since Floyd was wicked fast 2), Chuvalo, Folley (also very fast), Bonavena, Frazier, Norton, Foreman, Lyle, Shavers. Not sure whether or not to count Spinks.
     
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    Though Howard wasn't exactly the fast fighter he was a year or two earlier.
     
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    Spinks was a pressure fighter
     
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    Ya, I was just thinking that Leon was pretty fast as well as powerful.
     
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    Corbett vs Fitzsimmons
     
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    George Foreman vs Tommy Morrison
     
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    Byrd vs Tua

    Byrd vs Golota was exciting fight, one of the best HW fights of that decade
     
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