Was just thinking about fighters who were known for being knocked down in their careers who have repeatedly shown that they're able to come back and win or even dominate a fight following being floored. Marquez and Calzaghe both sprang to mind. Who do you think had the better powers of recovery?
both were great at recovery, whoever said jmm by far is just a cals hater. you cannot say either of these guys are by far better at anything between them. they are both great fighters, Joe is actually an ATG in my book, jmm is an ATG Mexican fighter, so super Joe rates a little higher for me. jmm might've had a more fan friendly career, although that was really just the last decade of his career. fans seem to rate fighters higher that have more classic fights, and fighters that seem to recover from losses to come back and win titles, its a better story and it seems better to lots of fans, especially the casuals can be sold on fighters that lost and came back to a "better" fighter when that is clearly not the case. they just came back and beat fighters that they were better than. most fans can be sold on anything, the more BS you feed them the more they buy into said BS. how is it better to have classic wars, come from behind wins, come back from defeats than it is to be that great you don't have to do that ****. its more of a feel good story, i get that but how can true boxing fans think a fighter is BETTER after being defeated, coming back and beating lesser fighters than the fighter that defeated them. ONLY boxing fans can be sold on such rubbish, boxing is the ONLY sport where being that GREAT actually hurts you in the immediate future. I know i fat fingered half this post but i have a couple broken fingers and severely swollen knuckles, and NO it wasn't from beating the hell out of 5 people in the streets like half on here do yearly or at least think they could. something very heavy was dropped right on my hand, so very limited in the typing skills here and these pills they gave me make me pretty damn loopy
Marquez showed it more frequently and seemed to come back from tougher circumstances would be a fair argument. In just the past 6 years he has gotten off the canvas to come back and KO each of Pacquiao, Diaz, and Katsidis as well as coming off the canvas to win a wide decision over Alvarado.
I'd say Calzaghe. The only time I think he's ever been dropped and genuinely hurt was against Mitchell and he got right back up and took him out.
I dunno. I heard rumours that Joe was using parrots amongst other pets in the build up to the lacy fight.
He was hurt by it for sure but he went straight on the offensive and took it right to Roy for the remainder of the round as soon as he hauled himself up off the canvas.