Can you name a fight where after the 2 fighters were never the same ?

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  1. juppity

    juppity Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Can you name a fight where both fighters after were never the same physically or
    pyschologically ?
     
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  2. BoxingNL

    BoxingNL Dutch P4P Champion Full Member

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    Eubank vs Watson II
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Vazquez-Marquez III.
     
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  4. KidGalahad

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    ali-frazier III.
     
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  5. VVMM

    VVMM Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Douglas-Tyson
     
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  6. Longhhorn71

    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sadd Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez. Both fighters began to slip after that one. Fighters just can't take those kind of beatings forever.
     
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  7. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Marquez vs Vasquez.

    Both entered in their absolute prime but left the fight basically shot.

    Marquez should have smashed Lopez and Vasquez should have retired.
     
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  8. williams7383

    williams7383 TKO 6 Klit Lickers Full Member

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    Benn McLellan
     
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  9. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Garcia/Matthyse, potentially.
     
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  10. Hannibal Barca

    Hannibal Barca Active Member Full Member

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    Matthysse vs Provodnikov
     
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  11. JohnThomas1

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    Great call. Even if someone argued Tyson was as good against Ruddock as he had been against Douglas due to where he had found himself at in Japan one can still say the aura of invincibility was gone, certainly on opponents with any gonads at all.
     
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  12. juppity

    juppity Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I always feel the most tragic fights are when a promising career is side tracked and another
    ends up with permanent reminders of a brutal fight. In this case their is no winners only
    sadness. Mike Perez vs Magomed Abdusalamov ended with MA going into a induced coma
    from brain hemorrhage and suffered brain trauma. Perez was thought to be a next hw contender
    became punch shy and was never the same.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/sports/meet-mago-former-heavyweight.html?_r=0
     
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  13. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bowe vs Golota
     
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  14. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Trilla in Manila is the obvious .. agree an excellent call on Tyson - Douglas .. Hagler Hearns may be another ..
     
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  15. Eddie Ezzard

    Eddie Ezzard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Carbajal - Gonzalez I. Chiquita changed his style to be more cute after that as opposed to the 'bombs away and never mind the torpedoes' approach that had always served him well.

    Although he won the fight, and it made him Ring fighter of the Year, Carbajal started to lose after this. He didn't alter his style but was never able to recreate that level of intensity again, whether he had left something behind physically or mentally.
     
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