Biggest Boxing Lessions you've ever witnessed in a fight?

This is a really good example. I watched the highlights of that fight recently, Clev got ruined. Very one sided.

 

Adrian Dodson v Winky Wright

 

There was that little Irish guy that won a tournament and then got thrown in with a prime rigondeux

 

Y’all must’ve forgot ….
The Uncivil War
Toney V Jones
Toney considered no. 2 P4p at the time
Jones put on an absolute masterclass
Made someone as elite as James Toney
Look silly times ….to the point Toney try’s to clown him back and get caught and knocked down
Anyone that hasn’t seen it needs to watch it today!
Don’t think it could be repeated a lesson given to one boxer when both considered elite … before and after the fight so it’s not as if either were found to be not great or picked apart two conformed legends and one got got schooled and both went on to achieve further greatness

 

Were you not excepting it to be though?
At the time?

 

Kelly pavlik vs Gary lockett

 

Willie Casey

 

The day Gary 'Quick Towell' Locket was born as a trainer.

He got pummelled

 

Great point. Donald Curry's decline started in the Rodriguez fight as opposed to the Honeyghan fight.
Curry beat an absolute peak Starling twice. In the 15th rounder it seemed anything Starling did Don just did better he also manhandled Marlon threw him around like a rag doll.
Once drugs, the burnout of 404 amateur bouts, a total loss or desire and discipline kick in its very difficult to reclaim it. And Donald never did.Even a shot Curry who had been Billy goat headbutted again and again by Santos and Montgomery was giving Mike McCallum a boxing lesson.

Don was a slightly built Welterweight but brutally strong at his peak. Even the shot version gave Michael Nunn and Terry Norris 2 of their hardest fights ( before Terry's late 90s decline)

Starling had the best night of his life versus Honeyghan and Lloyd had his very worst. He seemed noticeably slower and lacking his usual zest his punches seemed fatigued as Mike Tyson remarked on commentary. I to this day beleive Curry beat a zombie of Curry and equally Starling beat a zombie of Lloyd.

The Honeyghan who beat Rosi,Curry ,Bumphus had very fast reflexes and considerable boxing skills.

Starling beat Breland,Honeyghan, and Brown but he also lost to Bumphus,Blocker,Villa,and twice to Curry.

Despite Honeyghan fighting poorly and emplyomg a brawling style after 4 rounds the fight was even. It was when Mickey Duff told Lloyd to get on his bike and ' make yourself scarce' that the fight suddenly swing massively the other way after Lloyd broke his jaw. The last 5 rounds were painful.Honeyghan always had huge reserves of courage and his corner should have pulled him out after 6 on the jaw injury. It ended his career he was finished

 

Probably not just 4 rounds no. I was bought into Cleverly and had seen several of his fights live so naively thought he might do ok and I was wrong. Kovalev was a killer during his defences and subsequent unifications.

I also thought Swifty Smith would get stopped on the undercard for the British title stepping up in weight and he took out Gary Buckland with a beautiful uppercut.

 

Another great shout. I have spoken with Pavlik about this fight when I’ve seen him at MSG and he’s always very respectful of Lockett, even though he said to me he felt he Gary had no chance against him. Very nice guy, shame he never got his hands on then IBF middle champ Abraham as he would have battered him.

 

Tony Thompson v David "Great White Hope" Price x 2.

 

Strange take considering Wladmir Klitschko was fully in his dominant over a decade long reign of terror and dominance, and had just beaten Thompson. There's only been Great Black Hopes in the last 20 years

 

Golota v Bowe ( mainly the first fight)
Golota gave Bowe a beating, but we all know he imploded.

 

Great post. I grew up watching VHS tapes of fighters from the 1980s. Family members with a history in the sport kind of forced it on me as a kid, plus I was the only one who really knew how to use the video recorder and understood all of the settings.

It's crazy how, with modern technology, all those tape collections almost became obsolete almost overnight. I spent so much time staying up until all hours recording the fights for them, only to be chastised because I didn't cut out all the adverts or the timer settings cut out in the midst of a fight. At least it gave me a lifelong interest in the sport, and I got to meet a lot of the top British fighters, especially from that era.

I also remember Starling stating that Curry's two victories over him deceived Donald into thinking he was a more aggressive forward fighter than he actually was, as he out-hustled and had him on the defensive, especially in the second fight.

Curry was also part of the lost generation of the 1980 American team who missed out on Insta fame because of the Boycott; Bernard Taylor was another member, an exceptional boxer and arguably the best win of Mcguigan's career.

As you said, 404 Amateur fights probably took its toll on him, and missing out on the Olympics would have been heartbreaking, especially after all the plaudits the team of 76 achieved.