Ah, we agree that this was one special performance? I'm amazed by Locche every time I see this fight.:good
I think Smith's performance was one of the best defensive performances. Tyson was by far the superior boxer in terms of skill and speed and arsenal. Smith took very little punishment considering. :good Most of the picks on this thread I wouldn't highlight as great defensive performances, I'd consider them amazing demonstrations of boxing superiority. But that shows it's open to interpretation.
Would you say Seldon put on a better defensive performance against Tyson than Smith? Seldon went the whole fight without taking a single punch
Lora, don't know if you're being cynical, but I'll answer anyway. I've only seen the 15th round and everyone jumps on this as a masterful performance. The Argentine officials apparently scored this fight 15-0 for Loche, but if I'm going by the 15th round only that i have to object here. Loche did a wondrous job of ducking, but I don't give points for ducking only fighting, and there was only one man out there fighting and that was Cervantes. I scored the 15th round for Cervantes on aggression. He was throwing the punches and Loche was being cute, mugging for the audience and such. If he was ducking and countering i would have a different view, but he wasn't and I don't see how anyone scored that round for Loche. It makes me wonder about the other 14 rounds and was Adolph Pruitt's complaint about he was the only one doing the fighting have any credence to it.
Too much willful embracing of potentially overblown stories for my tastes about that fight. I'd be quite happy for it to turn out to be the showcase it's been said to be, but i'd like to at least see it first before saying it was.