Best HW wins

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  1. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm not reading a 4chan fanfic, but I'm glad you put so much effort into thinking about my post.
     
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  2. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    Nothing new under the sun
     
  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Elder abuse should not qualify.
     
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Beating up a washed up Hollywood resident who hadn't competed in years in a ten rounder in the rain? Meh.
     
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  5. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    You forgot cum drained, only question is who drained him?

    Rickard, **** you doin?!
     
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  6. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Exactly. And it's still a fanfic. Glad we agree.
     
  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    It's interesting, the big heavy wins. Frazier over Ali is compromised by Ali's inactivity. Rahman over Lewis is compromised by Lewis's prep. McCall over Lewis is compromised by pre-Steward plus the stoppage. Schmeling's win over Louis is compromised by Louis's attitude to the fight. Spinks's win over Holmes is compromised by the controversy surrounding the decision and his age. Foreman's win over Frazier is compromised around the damage done to Frazier and his illness in FOTC. The list goes on and on. There's a shortage of very clean big wins. Maybe it really is Foreman's ye olde man win.
     
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    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    lol
     
  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    No match-up is perfectly balanced and clean. But the fighters sign on the line that is dotted, knowing what they are getting into. One assumes they most often do so with the idea of winning.

    That said, I have long thought the Ali inactivity trope is overplayed. He had stopped a very good Quarry not long after Quarry took Mac Foster's O, and then provided Bonavena with the only stoppage defeat in a 68 fight career. He wasn't even 30 years old, a pup by today's heavyweight standards.
     
  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :lol: well, yes.
     
  11. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Some of those 'comprisings' seem a bit trite.

    If we buy these as compromises, then there has probably never been a 'clean' win in the history of heavyweight boxing.
     
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    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Liston-Patterson, and Ali-Foreman are also three fights I'd add to this very short list.
     
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  13. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    I don't know you understand what fanfic means.
     
  14. JohnThomas1

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    It's mind-boggling enough to read as a fairy tale, really.

    At any rate Foreman's decimation of Frazier is certainly top 5, ever. How deep you go into the five is personal preference.
     
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  15. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 MONZON VS HAGLER 2025 banned Full Member

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    … it’s like… Douglas > Tyson, Schemling > Louis and Frazier > Ali?