Which fights have you revisited and rewatched the most

Limon vs Navarrate which I had forgotten how well Limon went to tthe body.

 

Saad v. Johnson II

The sight of Saad standing in the neutral corner with blood streaming down from both eyes as Johnson tries valiantly to rise left an indelable mark

Also Randall v. Chavez I.

Just a near perfect performance by Randall and classy
interviews before and after the fight

Also Boza v. Limon and Boza v. Chacon I

Boza's best performances

 

Julio Cesar Chavez vs Edwin Rosario
Manny Pacquiao vs Marco Antonio Barrera 1
Marvin Hagler vs Tony Sibson
Mike Tyson vs Tyrell Biggs
Evander Holyfield vs Dwight Muhammad Qawi 2

There are plenty of others but the ones I have chosen here involve some of my favourite fighters in arguably their best career performances. So while there might have been more exciting and more competitive fights I could have chosen, I never tire of rewatching these as it reminds me just how good they were at their best.

 

Felix Trinidad-Fernando Vargas

Bernard Hopkins-Felix Trinidad

Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo 1

 

Franklin v Johnson 2
Sergei Artemiev bouts
Scott v Gregory
Benn v McClellan
Mancini v Kim
Holmes v Shavers 1
Hagler bouts
Pedroza bouts
GGG bouts in Germany

 

There are a few - usually I go for abbreviated fights due to time constraints.

There is ONE however, that I watch quite often - in part due to the film constantly being improved over the years for even better viewing.

That fight is Joe Louis vs Max Baer. The more I watch, the more I know that this is THE version of Louis, as a job lot, that you’d want to proffer in fantasy engagements.

He isn’t economical to a fault - in fact, he’s highly energised. He looks interested. Early career. Mountains still yet to climb.

Later, while still an incredible fighter and highly effective, Louis settled down to a 9-5, just another day in the office, approach.

Anyone who questions Louis foot work, potential for mobility and defence needs to examine the Baer fight carefully - Louis is great on his feet, reactively and intelligently evasive and stunningly fast with those hands.

Louis’ jab was irrefutably GREAT. While much is made of that jab, its seems Louis didn’t always employ it as much as he might’ve (should’ve?). Not the case here - the jab is consistent and powerful. Each and every jab snapping Baer’s head well back time and again.

This was an efficient, methodical destruction of a boxer with a legitimately upheld iron chin. Louis had a habit of denting never before dented chins - a truly unique by product of his game.

Now of course the quality (or lack thereof) of Baer’s own performance can’t be completely divorced from the equation - requiring some measurement and appreciation of Louis performance relative to that of the challenge presented in Baer’s performance.

But then the Cleveland Williams that faced Ali. wasn’t of course what he used to be either.

That didn’t prevent a justifiable assessment of Ali to be at the top of his game in Houston ‘66 - taking the opportunity to display and show off all his wares.

Which is exactly what Louis did vs Baer imo. In fact, placing those performances H2H, I think I would rate Louis’ as even better.

The technical perfection of Louis’s executions is sublime. An absolute joy to watch.

 

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Oh man, that was one nasty KO. It’s actually one of my “abbreviated” favourites. Gerry got in one good left hook early in the piece, made George stumble but otherwise it was more or less all Foreman IIRC. A true freak of nature.

 

I love Bazooka’s uppercut-style body shots that loop up to the breadbasket.

I love them more that I get to watch other people take them than if I were to be hit by them.

 

My favorite knockout of all time. Great fight. That walk away uppercut cannot be matched!

 

I find myself watching a lot of abbreviated (as in short, quick and to-the-point, not condensed highlights) Pipino Cuevas lately. Just love that guy.

But the single fight I have revisited the most may be Ray Leonard vs. Wilfred Benitez. Two really skilled guys in a duel all the way up to the (probably premature) end in the 15th (not that it would have made a difference). So much from each to like about it, even though it wasn’t particularly close on the cards.

A master boxer-puncher in Leonard and a defensive whiz in Benitez … it’s understandable how he got the Bible of Boxing nickname.

 

The first fight is probably better for sustained action, but I enjoy the rematch better just for that 8th round and it being for the world title.

Definitely of my most rewatched rounds ever.

Big George with the drive-by knockout at the end.

 

Great description - “Drive-by KO”. Such power and such nonchalance in its delivery.

I felt sorry for Cooney, that punch jarred through his whole body - he dropped as if he’d been shot.

 

Old Foreman could be compassionate at times and ask the ref to stop it when he was beating a guy up too bad. Other times, his mean streak would come out.

I think Foreman was still pissed about that first round double left hook that Cooney landed, so he was just vicious when he stopped him.