I thought about this one the other day. I think McCallum takes this on points. Reggie was unlucky against Toney and Castro not to take the title...
Since watching Valdez-Briscoe 2, I've been fantasizing about a Toney-Briscoe clash at 160. One guy coming forward and putting intelligent pressure...
Good Intel this guy has - I'd better check out this mysterious 'AJ' and 'Fury'.
I was surprised that The Ring had it in its 100 greatest title fights of all time listing from back in the 90s as I'd never otherwise heard of it...
Rodrigo Valdez v Bennie Briscoe 2 This was a war. Briscoe started fast and forced the pace but Valdez responded in kind and the two just went...
That's some beautiful writing there, Kamikaze.
George, I watched this one not too long ago. Here's how I had it: Definitely one of my favourite Toney performances.
That is the beginning, middle and end of it. Great post!
It ended up being DeWitt's final fight so maybe the spark had gone and he knew it.
When my wife wants to get to sleep she says 'talk to me about what boxing you've been watching'. She's out in about 20 seconds.
It didn't go the distance but Danny Lopez-Mike Ayala had a weird moment where Carlos Padilla appeared to wave the fight off in round 11 after...
My best mate likes boxing so that's good - I got him watching some classic fights. I remember he and I were on a stag do in Tenerife and it was......
That's the joy of LA - huge Mexican population and Mexicans are generally huge boxing fans. I became good friends with a Mexican guy who loved...
I boxrecced this and James Toney, for example, fought twice on his birthday (in 1990 and 1993) but both were 10 rounders and not significant.
Duran lost on the eve of his 33rd birthday to Hearns so probably had a pretty **** birthday that year.
