A l l time Greats best opponents - The top 8

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  1. glimmerman

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    Duran same as what i heard
     
  2. AbbasKhan6428

    AbbasKhan6428 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    hmm maybe im wrong, duran was a beast of a puncher so it wouldnt suprise me if he did
     
  3. TommyV

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    The fact is horses weigh upwards of about 850lbs, and that's usually just the smallest horses, they have about 35 bones in their skull and about 50 in their necks, and most are designed to absorb concussion, they also have ridiculously thick skull, and huge necks to absorb the impact of a punch aswell as 4 legs to keep their balance.
     
  4. billyk

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    As I said, I never put much thought into it, but deliberately left out Holmes cause he was comming out of retirement with no warm up fight.......too past it if you ask me.
     
  5. Guru_Too_You

    Guru_Too_You ESB OG circa '99 Full Member

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    And Duran.

    The fight doctor talks about it during SRL I.
     
  6. billyk

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    Did John Wayne not KO a horse in a western, and with some fighters propensity for bull**** they probably decided to say they had done it for real.
     
  7. AbbasKhan6428

    AbbasKhan6428 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i think that was arnold in connan the barbarian
     
  8. billyk

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    Probably, I think someone done it in Blazing Saddles as well, but I thought John Wayne was the original horse-beater.
    Might be wrong though.
     
  9. AbbasKhan6428

    AbbasKhan6428 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So far 6 horses and 1 cow have been apparently knocked out. what has this gotta do with the thread.........the answer lys with the horses
     
  10. ninebar

    ninebar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    From a Piece on Duran called Roberto Duran’s Magical Realism by Bart Barry
    at a website where they go the full 15 round's.


    “Then they tell me, ‘If you can knock-out a horse, we will pay you a hundred and fifty dollars.’ And I say to them, ‘Are you crazy? I am not going to fight a horse!’ Then this girl begins to kiss me again and caress my face. My uncle says to me, ‘Hey, why not? Punch the horse for the money!’

    “The horse looks at me,” Mr. Duran says, and his eyes widen and he scowls and twitches his nose and makes a throaty growl. “And I tell my uncle, ‘Are you crazy?’ He says, ‘Are you not “Las Manos de Piedra”!’”

    That’s when the beautiful girl, the provoking uncle, and young Roberto Duran’s thirst for strong drink, and life itself, won the moment. And that’s how “Hands of Stone” broke his right middle finger knocking-down a horse in Panama.
     
  11. AbbasKhan6428

    AbbasKhan6428 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl nice article.

    I predict horses will become the bench mark for boxers punching power, trainers telling their boxers "son if you knock out this horse your ready to take on the P4P guys"