Best Performance in a Decision Win Ever

Also a damned shame the radio broadcast wasn't recorded. That's what really gets me. Greb-Tunney I and Greb-Walker were BOTH filmed and broadcast on radio. The technology was in place to preserve these as modern telecasts, but apparently, nothing predates Tunney-Dempsey II in this respect.

 

Time magazine covered the Greb-Walker fight..they reported that in the fifteenth round that "Greb turned Walker's face into a suet pudding" in a furious last round effort. Greb must have really nailed it down in that last round.

 

Robinson-Lamotta III-Sugar Ray was coming off the first defeat of his professional carrer and was dropped in the fight. He won points.

Robinson-Gavilan II- After being pushed by Gavilan in their first bout, Robinson outclassed Gavilan. This is one of Sugar Rays greatest victories. He outboxed Gavilan and nearly stopped the granite chinned Cuban Hawk.

 

Mickey wrote that when Harry staggered him, "Greb was crawling all over me," in my mind the most lucid description contained in Walker's entire autobiography. Even he did not dispute in his book that Harry was the rightful winner, apparently concocting the post fight street brawl story to save face.

 

...i didn't see pep/saddler ll but from what i've read and heard that must have been one of the greatest.

glad to see the mention of buddy mcgirt over simon brown. one of my very favorites.....buddy was so good and in that one he was magnificent.

one of my all-time favorites was harold johnson over doug jones. textbook.

gavilan did not "punish" robinson in their first. they fought at a fast clip but srr didn't have any real trouble. gavilan was a good draw at the time and srr let him look a little better than he actually was to set up a title fight between them, in which robinson was highly superior.

 

well placed post

 

Probably the best Robinson's victory.

I've never heard anything about Robinson nearly stopping Gavilan.

"The contest was a most interesting and satisfying one. Gavilan's performance was such as to make Ray admit that he feared to take chances. In the fourth round Sugar Ray suffered a cut over the right eye that bled throughout the bout..For the first six rounds it was anybody's fight..But after the sixth, there was not doubt about Ray (having the better of it)." (The Ring, September 1949, pp. 10-11.)

 

I've never heard anything of the sort either.

 

Actually was Gavilan ever in his long career close to being stopped???

 

Hopkins stopped Trinidad.

 

This one's a bit left field, but how about 11 fight novice Eagle Kyowa widely outpointing Jose Antonio Aguirre, the long reigning WBC champ and consensus divisional number 1 at the time.

Of course a few things work against it: (1) the fight was in Japan (Eagle's home turf - he was actually Thai, but fought out of Japan); (2) Aguirre really wasn't all that to be honest, and while divisional No.1, it wasn't really a strong division.

I did say it was left field.

 

Kalambay against Mccallum was a masterpiece.

 

By the way it was the last fight when McCallum was in his physical prime, in my opinion.

By the time he fought Graham McCallum looked like he started to decline.

 

I almost agree.I'd say the Graham fight was the last he was physically primed for, he was still able to keep his workrate up late, against a strong physical fighter there.

But against Collins he nearly punched himself out when he had Collins hurt circa 6 and obviously struggled the rest of the way once Collins starting to pressure instead of box.

 

Jones-Toney is a good shout.