Best Performance Over the Hill

Hill's underrated in general, sadly.

He supposedly wiped his ass with Nunn as an amateur.

 

His performance in the Jimmy Young fight is over the hill. His fight with Holmes means he's thru and shouldn't be fighting

 

Though I am a huge Camacho fan I'll agree that Duran won the big one again. Thankfully, Hector got his act together for his next fight

 

is that around the time Ray Leonard decided to give him a rematch?

 

I just watched the Duarte/Pinango fight the other day and you're right...he did get the shaft.

 

Archie Moore vs Yuvonne Dirrell II, especially considering he had been in all of those wars with Marciano, Charles, Johnson ect and was about 45 years of age. He blew him out in the third round.

 

What? He was fighting a fat, shot Trinidad who hadn't fought in nearly 3 years and was fighting at a weight far too high for him.

 

Yeah, I probably give more credit to Trinidad for going the distance and being able to take about two rounds than Jones for actually winning the fight.

Trinidad was shutout by Wright at 160lbs, retired for almost a full 3 years, and then comes back to fight Jones at 170lbs. The fact that he wasn't blown out inside of 6 rounds (even by this version of Roy) impressed me. Roy really gets no credit for that win, it was meaningless fight in terms of either man's legacy.

 

Imo those are the fights who ruin the sport. They aren´t about boxing anymore but about the show and money.

 

haha just what i was thinking he was like 50!!

 

Stonehands is not exaggerating when he says that Duran clearly beat Camacho in that first fight.

Imo, Duran had no business even competing with a much younger Camacho......
.....and this is'nt to take credit away from Duran, because he fought great vs Camacho.

Imo however, Camacho took Duran lightly. He had no idea that Duran could still bring it at the level that he did.
Fully knowing what to expect from the older Duran, Camacho was able to win quite comfortably on points in the rematch, although he fought Duran cautiously from a distance, fully respecting him.



Let me add this about how impressive Duran was in that first Camacho fight.......it convinced Ray Leonard to come out of retirement, thinking how comfortably Duran had handled him, that he'd do even better......

Sadly for Leonard, it was one of the few times in Camacho's late career that he actually was focused and dedicated in a fight.
Camacho who had been stereotyped by then that he was too cautious a fighter, called it beforehand, and said that he was'nt coming to box and be a cutey against Ray Leonard.
Camacho said, "He better be ready, because I'm going to bring it. I'm going to knock Leonard out!"

Camacho was'nt kidding, from the beggining and uncharacteristically, he was the aggressor and brought the fight to Ray Leonard.....and like he predicted, easily disposed of him.

 

Hopkins vs Tarver

Hops was an underdog, moving up two weight divisions against the guy considered "The Man" in the Light heavyweight divsion..

Tarver won a round maybe.

 

If that.

Beautiful, beautiful Hopkin's performance.