Best adjustments in a fight

Of course the most glaring example is Ali against Foreman. Ali dances and jabs the first two rounds and when he saw that not working he resorted to letting Foreman wail away and then counter-punched off the ropes. Some of the more obscure ones off the top of the old noggin was Tony Sibson against Don Lee. Sibson drops Lee in the first and it doesn't look like it's lasting much longer, but Lee comes out for the second round in a southpaw stance and slowly turns the fight around and KO's Sibson in 8. Another one in the same vein was the Rodolfo Martinez-Venice Borkorsor fight for the 118 lb. title. Borkorsor starts out hard and toys and drops Martinez in the 3rd or 4th round. In the 5th Martinez comes out in his natural southpaw style (he was a converted southpaw) and takes it from there winning over 15.

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After non stop toe to toe brawling. Humberto "Chiquita"Gonzalez suffered a horrible cut against Michael Carbajal. Gonzalez then totally changed tactics & got on his bicycle and outboxed Carbajal to capture a points win. All the while bleeding badley.

 

Michael Carbajal fighting almost exclusively inside during his first fight with Gonzalez after realizing he couldn't miss with the right hook that way.

 

Castillo-Herrera? McGrain, are you talking about the second Chucho Castillo-Rafael Herrera fight? It's been a long time since I saw that fight. Could you elaborate?

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Marquez switching to lead uppercuts against Diaz :yep

 

Calzage/Kessler wasn't a bad example.

 

In Dempsey-Willard, Jack adjusted thrice: from circling and boxing elusively through the first minute and a half, to attacking furiously for the next minute and a half, to the less frenetic longer range tempo of rounds two and three, when the first round bet of Kearns was lost, and Dempsey had doubts about lasting a full 12 rounds. Jack also tested the chin of Tommy Gibbons early with his Sunday Punch, then shifted to a duration oriented outlook when Tommy weathered it.

Holmes went from an aggressive come forward approach against Snipes to a more defensively oriented mode after that surprise knockdown, and maintained a substantial lead throughout. The late round body attack on Carl Williams also stands out, and it wouldn't surprise me if Larry himself identified that match as his own best example of a mid fight adaptation.

 

Minter surging headlong at Hagler in the 2nd round.Measured ring-generalship at its best.

 

Liston's adjustment in the first Williams fight is impressive as well, he took a beating in the first round as Williams dropped bombs from the outside. After this, Liston went at Williams and it turned into an inside fight which favored Sonny.

Really impressive work from a guy whose often thought of as a mindless brute.

 

Yes,Muhammad Ali in the George Foreman fight is the first that springs to mind. He won the bout by doing what he was n't supposed to do. That was class,and ingenious.

 

Hearns and SRL both adjusted nicely to one another's strategy in their first fight, and essentially switched styles after the seventh round.

 

Aaron Pryor stepping outside the eye of the storm in the first Arguello fight, and starting to jab and box, swinging the fight in his favour.