Cherry Picking Gone Wrong

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  1. Showstopper97

    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    Name some great examples of when cherry-picking goes wrong.
    Some of mine
    Broner-Maidaina
    Ledwaba-Pacquaio
     
  2. MURK20

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    Wlad vs Purity, Sanders and Brewster.
     
  3. TheWorstEver(TWE)

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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Angel Espada v Pipino Cuevas I
    Alfonso Zamora v Jorge Lujan
     
  5. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ali vs Spinks
     
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    Povetkin—Whyte
    Price—Thompson
     
  7. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Barry Mc Guigan vs Steve Cruz, 1986.
     
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    Wilder vs Fury
    even though both are frauds
     
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    What?
     
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  10. Kamikaze

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    AjJ and Ruiz to some degree- I remember people calling Andy a sacrificial lamb before the fight.
     
  11. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ironic that 7 years later the next dominant heavyweight champion after Ali, Larry Holmes, needing one more victory to equal Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record, would also come unstuck against another cherry picked Spinks.
     
  12. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    He was a replacement opponent, so calling him a cherrypick is pretty unfair.
     
  13. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Andy Ruiz was the Ingo of modern times. In 1959, Ingemar Johansson was touted as a champion that would reign for a long time after knocking out then champion Floyd Patterson. But on June 20 1960 all that changed with one left hook. Just like Andy Ruiz was the victor in some of these hypothetical matches, all that changed in the rematch with Anthony Joshua too.
     
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  14. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    To be fair to the McGuigan team, Cruz was a late sub. But also Barry suggests he did not want to fight, and his row with Eastwood was causing huge problems behind the scenes.

    As for the thread:

    Two on one bill come straight to mind, the night Terry Lawless saw both his top prospects lose to American 'journeymen':

    Bruno/Bonecrusher and Mark Kaylor/Buster Drayton
     
  15. Richard M Murrieta

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    Thanks for the info my friend, great post.
     
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