Best Performance in a Decision Win Ever

Agree on the workrate.

But it kinda looked like Mike was a bit slower than usual and less dynamic than in previous fights.


And speaking of Kalambay-McCallum1 - how many fighters could have duplicated what Kalambay did to McCallum?

I mean one can make a strong case for Hagler, Monzon, Leonard etc beating Bodysnatcher - that's understandable.

But to outclass him so decisively?

Talk about impressive performance.

As far as i remember even commentators talked about McCallum's advancing age before the fight.

He definitely didn't look like the same fighter who beat Curry.

 

The Watson performance may have been McCallums finest hour, given the circumstances.

An aging fighter taking on a very good physically superior young contender in his own backyard and outclasses him with greater ringcraft.It's one of the classic examples of that boxing cliche.

 

That's not Calzaghes problem. He did his job and utterly destroyed a guy 95% of Americans at the time said would whoop him

 

Broke my heart that night did mccallum, he was amazing.

 

Can you explain why the fight was stopped? Was it some kind of hometown thing, did Locche want it to be stopped... Who was winning before the stoppage?

 

Cut eye stoppage.

Locche disagreed strongly with the stoppage.

Cervantes was winning the fight before the stoppage.

 

Cervantes looked to be winning, but it was competitive enough for the outcome to still be up in the air with six rounds remaining. A number of times, the referee stopped it to have the ringside physician look at Locche's face. (Unfortunately, the inferior black and white videotape fails to convey the extent of the bleeding over the left eye, and the only real clue is the distracting frequency with which the referee repeatedly halts action to have Locche examined.)

When the decision was made to stop it, Nicolino had to be held back, and shed emotional tears of frustration over how it concluded.

Although Cervantes was winning, Locche never appeared in distress from the bleeding, never appeared to have the ability to defend himself compromised, and Pambele did not appear at all able to stop him without outside intervention. Nicolino would have had no trouble lasting the championship distance on his feet. If Locche had completely failed to be competitive, that would have been one thing, but his showing was respectable enough that he should have at least been allowed to continue on that basis. It's not as if the bleeding had turtled him into a defensive shell, and he didn't appear distracted by his own blood during the action.

 

McGowan-Burruni

A masterclass by the Scot to win the world title.

 

I think Stevie Cruz did excellant to keep his form against McGuigen, the Heat may of been a factor to a degree, but Barry put a nasty amount of Hurtful pressure on Stevie, and he kept composed rode the storms, and finished with a flourish against the depleted McGuigen, Considering the type of outsider he was deemed to be before the fight a very good performance.

 

Kalambay-McCallum I! Whoever said that, great answer :good

 

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse since I bring it up a lot, but Winky-Tito is one of my favorite matches and would rank pretty highly on this. Tito wasn't a 10 since he already lost to B-Hop, but he was still considered extremely dangerous. Winky's offense and defense were phenomenal and he won every single round in that fight. I wouldn't say he overcame big disadvantages stylistically but Tito was expected to beat him.

Speaking of Tito, I'd also put Hopkins destruction of him up there.

 

Was great, but Hop' stopped him ;-)