A boxer's number

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  1. The_Hawk_2

    The_Hawk_2 Lineal WW Champion Full Member

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    Which boxers throughout history has always had another boxer's "number"? i.e No matter how hard the other boxer fought the former always came out stronger.

    Some I can think of off the top of my head:

    JMM - Pacquiao
    Tarver - Jones
    Forrest - Mosley
    Norton - Ali
     
  2. Wass1985

    Wass1985 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Douglas - Tyson
    Holyfield - Tyson
    Foreman - Frazier
    Ali - Liston
    Norton - Ali
    Liston - Patterson
    Hearns - Duran
    Hagler - Hearns
     
  3. Rope-a-Dope

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    Harada-Jofre
    Sanchez-Lopez
    Qawi-Saad Muhammad
    Saad Muhammad-Johnson
    Arguello-Escalera
     
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    Wass - Azzer
    Azzer- Wass
     
  5. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    One that did not make any sense was Hearns/Barkley.

    Sure, Barkley landing a bomb was a small possibility, but winning a 12 round decision over Thomas Hearns?!
     
  6. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Forrest/Mosley yeah, I see where you are coming from. But the others had a fairly even series of bouts:

    Marquez turned around one of their bouts with a bomb, but Pacquiao rocked Marquez and pretty much destroyed his nose, before the punch landed. The rest of their fights were generally very, very close.

    Jones/TarverI was a fairly even bout.

    And fights two and three in the Norton/Ali series were very even bouts. Norton certainly did not dominate Ali. I think the story there was Norton was better than most thought before their first bout, and that probably included Ali and his team.
     
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    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Cocoa Kid had it over Holman Williams.

    Ezzard Charles had Archie Moore's measure.

    Saddler- Pep is an obvious one.
     
  9. kingfisher3

    kingfisher3 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    mayorga(at the fitness level of those fights) v forrest

    charles v burley?

    marciano v jjw
     
  10. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maskaev - Rahman and Mayorga - Forrest indeed.
    Also:
    Barkley - Hearns (2 a lesser extent)
    Tony Thompson - David Price.
    Oliver McCall - Lennox Lewis
    Nick Wells - Larry Holmes
    Probably Duane Bobick - Larry Holmes too.
    Tarver - Jones
    C Sanders - W Klitschko
    R Puritty - W Klitschko (Puritty would have had more stoppage wins if he had more 12 rd fights against the same opposition he had)



    Hard to not believe Hagler - Hearns too.
     
  11. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Dempsey - Willie Meehan
    Junior Jones - MAB
    Liston - Cleve Williams
    Lew Jenkins - Lou Ambers
     
  12. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Almost forgot:

    Shig Kaneko - Flash Elorde
     
  13. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    The first time Pac fought JMM, he was on a 5 year unbeaten streak. The second time a 3 year winning streak. The 3 rd time an even longer winning streak, and this was when the Pacturds were claiming he was the re- incarnation of SRR, and Marciano combined, due to him going up the weights and thoroughly beating bigger guys.

    Suffice to say out of the first 3 fights, he could never score a convincing win over JMM, hence the reason fans will argue over the verdicts for decades to come.

    That on its own should convince folks the Mexican always had his number, but the coup de grace is the KTFO - 6.
     
  14. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl

    Scores a KD punch with his eyes closed. Then impersonates a gibbering wreck in the rematch.

    Put down the crack pipe.
     
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