Biggest one punch turnaround.

Exactly. But, on the other side, Mercer´s skills weren´t so bad. Against Lewis he made a sensational fight. IMO, Damiani could have achieved a bit more than he does. Morrison on the other side had a pretty lucky and good career (with his chin, it couldn´t be better), what do you think?

 

Yeah, Morrison really did have a good, solid steady career, and beat many prominent names in the process. Damiani had no world class power that I can recall, but was an excellent cutie, with great movement and boxing skill, somebody who might have given Tyson fits.

Damiani's win over Teo Stevenson may have been the most exciting amateur victory I ever saw televised.

 

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Duodenum sinning again, talking about 12rounders? Talk about a one punch turnaround!

 

Yeah, you mean his win in the half-final in Munich,right? I have also this fight. IMO he had good power, he scored most of his KO´s with clear one-punch-KO´s (Eklund, DuPlooy, Gregg, etc.). But of course his strengths were in the first place speed and skills. A shame that he turned late pro, and after the Mercer-loss he stopped training seriously...

 

Thanks mate. :good

 

To this day, I believe that in a last-gasp, Hail Mary prayer, Snipes found power against Holmes he hadn't shown before. I'd seen him be comfortably ahead against other guys (I'm especially thinking of Jumbo Cummings) and never depart from the slapping, arm-punching, cutie style he was most comfortable with. Holmes was grinding him down, Snipes was looking hopeless, and it seemed like he just closed his eyes and swung a windmill right with all his might. He seemed as surprised as anybody that it landed, and that it landed with such power.

Of course, he couldn't finish the job. But it was funny to see how he had this big overhand right as a new toy. Against Trevor Berbick, a guy who he'd have previously tried to outjab and outrun, he threw that right, it landed, and Berbick went down in the first round. Berbick got back up, but Snipes got to spend the fight intimidating him with the right hand in much the same way that Gerrie Coetzee had chased him with a right just a couple of fights before.

 

Mercer wasn't even winning the 9th before he connected with Damiami's nose!

It was such a steady shutout for Damiami that I was bored. I remember that when it happened, I was standing up, getting ready to head for the kitchen, assuming that the end of the fight was gonna be just like every previous moment -- Damiami jabs, Damiami lands with the right, Mercer moves forward, Damiami moves out of the way. An easy win. Until . . .

 

How about Arguello - Costello, if mem serves me right Alexis was being comprehensively outboxed (yeah he was way old)

 

it was like maybe the only punch castro threw in the whole fight. ****ing boring fight, i don't get why it was rated ring's magazine fight of the year back then.

but it sure belongs in this thread, no doubt.

 

You may be thinking of Danny "Little Red" Lopez who had a tandency of starting cold and getting dropped or wobbled in the early rounds. Also, it may be a poor example for this thread since it was so early in the fight, but Earnie Shavers was getting absolutely pummeled by Jimmy Ellis in the 1st round of their fight until one uppercut turned Jimmy into a horizontal heavyweight.

Scartissue

 

Tommy Morrison's left hook on Razor Ruddock.

 

No, I think Shavers/Ellis is a fine example, the performance which really established Earnie's reputation. (If the referee had not broken them out of the corner Jimmy had Shavers pinned in, it looked like Ellis would finish the job. For an instant, it looked like the referee was stepping in to stop the match.)

 

Well Deen,

it certainly is fortunate for Earnie " the attorney " that the ref let him continue. He might not have rose to stardum without that win.

 

If I have blasphemed, then it's the Devil's brew talking, not me.:stir:beer:thedevil1 (Also, go back and read post #44, paragraph three.)

Actually Chris, are you kidding? I was the first of five posters on this thread to mention Weaver/Tate. Chacon/Limon IV was another one I brought up.