Best comeback in a fight ever??

LOL, yes Weaver was losing but it was close-ish (Weaver would of lost by one point on two judges cards, three on the other with a 10/8 final round.)

But if we are talking leaving it late into championship rounds, then LaMotta's victory over Dauthuille wins the prize, that fight was the original Chavez/TaylorI; LaMotta winning with 13 seconds to spare.

Also Jeffries first victory over Corbett deserves a mention. Corbett was on fire for 22 rounds before being KO'd in the 23rd of a 25 round fight.

 

Most famously Jack Dempsey against Firpo

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mine is benn v mclellan awesome come back ,awesome fight but sad ending:-(
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Julian Jackson was being schooled by Herol Graham before unleashing a monster right hand.

 

Moore-Durelle not mentioned until the 37th response? You guys suck.

Shavers-Williams was another good, although very sloppy, comeback.

 

where is chavez vs taylor 1

 

castillo-corales hands down #1

notable comeback: JMM came back 3x from that first round against pac, i thought he was done that round and though he didn't win or knocked pac down but what a heart he has

 

If you're ranking best comebacks ever it has to go to Corrrales/Castillo I. The ending of that fight came straight out of a Rocky movie.

One fight that hasn't been mentioned as yet is Pernell Whitaker vs Diosbelys Hurtado. A Cuban amatuer standout, Hurtado was able to outbox Sweat Pea for the entire fight. Whitaker was a great boxer - but any time he had to press the action - he was at his worst. It was the 11th round with the Golden Boy Oscar De la hoya and the promise of another multi-million dollar payday at ringside. Whitaker had been knocked down and was as far behind on the scorecards as one can get. Pernell eventually caught Hurtado with a left cross counter. Sensing Diosbelys was hurt - Pernell pressed the advantage eschewing any and all technique by resorting to basically using his left hand to hockey punch the Cuban repeatedly until the man fell limp, draped across the ropes - as though he had been shot in the forehead by a someone with a rifle in the cheap seats.

Good comeback that one.

 

Arthur Mercante Jr. was dangerously slow to stop the fight.

 

I left that part out.

But I agree completely. Luckily, Pernell was never a murderous puncher (at WW) and Diosbelys recovered without suffering long-term damage.

 

That late stoppage bothered me. I mean others were bad too, like that free shot that Ruddock had on Dokes (Mercante Jr. reffed that one too), or Mercer-Morrison (Tony Perez).

But in this case, Whitaker was teeing off on Hurtado and the punches weren't swift and sudden like Mercer reeling off those shots. Whitaker was completely cocking his left hand back, giving Mercante plenty of time to step in, but yet he still stopped it several punches too late.

Although Whitaker wasn't a big puncher, I've always felt that he had underrated power in that left hand.

 

The best comeback I have seen is Micky Ward vs. Alfonso Sanchez. It was on the undercard of the De La Hoya-Whitaker fight. Sanchez at the time was 16-0 and a serious prospect. This was supposed to be his gatekeeper fight against Ward.

Sanchez had won every minute of the fight going into the seventh round. The kid was pretty good and had some serious power. I believe he had won 15 of his 16 fights by way of stoppage. He battered Micky so badly that from the fourth round until the end both Lampley and Merchant were yelling for the fight to be stopped. The referee was Mitch Halpern (of Tyson-Holyfield fame), and he was staying real close to both fighters looking like he might step in at any moment for the last two rounds. Micky was taking his usual beating without doing a whole lot in return. Then suddenly in typical Ward fashion, a liver shot out of nowhere and Sanchez didn't get off the mat for a good five minutes.