Career-defining moments & fights, of your favorite fighters

Reinhardt · Apr 7, 2021

The very definition of career defining moment is:

1,Joe Frazier beating up Muhammed Ali
2.Jack Dempsey killing Jess Willard
3.Salvador Sanchez thrashing Wilfredo Gomez
4. Donald Curry icing Milt McCrory
5. Foreman destroying Joe Frazier

Heisenberg · Apr 7, 2021

Holyfield beating Tyson to seal his legacy.

SheenLantern · Apr 7, 2021

Roy showboating against Toney, Toney tries to reciprocate and gets knocked on his ass

JackSilver · Apr 9, 2021

Heisenberg said: ↑

Holyfield beating Tyson to seal his legacy.
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Don’t forget

Douglas beating Tyson to seal his legacy
Lewis beating Tyson to seal his legacy
Williams beating Tyson to seal his legacy
McBride beating Tyson to seal his legacy.

Yeah, beating Tyson is the making of legacies.

roughdiamond · Apr 7, 2021

The Morlocks said: ↑

There is a great article on the fight in the victory sports magazine series after Billy died May 14, 1983. Great pics too. I have an old signed still of Billy framed in my living room from 1927.
In 1927 he fought 18 times, against quality comp and beating King Tut twice. Billy was always a family favorite as long as I remember growing up. His family was related to my Mom's in some way. So I heard about these fights like other tots heard about Joe DiMaggio.
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COME BACK MORLOCKS.

LoadedGlove · Apr 7, 2021

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He's not really one of my favourite fighters to watch back, but I always had a keen interest in Froch, what with us coming from the same city, me attending a lot of his fight from his early days right up until his Wembley showdown with Groves, and a few of my family members getting to know him a little bit personally (forget the bravado - he's always been a really good bloke from everything I've seen or heard close up).

For me the Bute fight was definitely his greatest and defining night. Home town, tremendous atmosphere (honestly blew Wembley right out of the water, despite the much smaller crowd), the most dominant big-fight performance and win of his career. Some had downplayed his previous two world titles because they'd been vacant belts when he won them. This time they couldn't use that excuse, as he ripped a title from an unbeaten fighter who was the betting favourite.

I think it's far more important to his career than Kessler II or Groves II, which I suspect most people would go for. I think with Bute, it's what was on the line and what doors it opened up for him which made it so special. Froch had only had the exposure of Matchroom and Sky Sports since the summer of 2011, and hadn't yet fought in the UK with the full weight of a big promoter and network behind him. He'd still not really earned the plaudits or money his career warranted, and hadn't got great reviews for his two fights on Sky so far. If he'd have lost that Bute fight, he'd have likely retired and now we'd just be looking at him as a decent fighter who got lucky with his vacant world titles, and who lost every time he stepped up to the biggest level. That would have been very unfair on him. Even if he hadn't retired, losing to Bute would mean he'd probably never get the Kessler rematch, and certainly not on home soil or with such a big share of the money. No paydays or a post-War record crowd against Groves, either.

Still one of my best ever experiences as a fight fan.
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Carl was far from the favourite for that one too.

LoadedGlove · Apr 7, 2021

I guess this will seem a tad prosaic compared to most of the posts here but the fight I thought of straight away was Tony Sibson hammering Frankie Lucas for the British Middleweight Title.
Sibbo was a third choice substitute coming in on two weeks notice against the fringe World class Lucas. The fight was wild and vicious and left wild man Frankie in a heap in the sixth. Sibson would never be Tony Who again.

ChrisJS · Apr 7, 2021

Reinhardt said: ↑

The very definition of career defining moment is:

1,Joe Frazier beating up Muhammed Ali
2.Jack Dempsey killing Jess Willard
3.Salvador Sanchez thrashing Wilfredo Gomez
4. Donald Curry icing Milt McCrory
5. Foreman destroying Joe Frazier
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All great choices, and I’ll add Zárate’s dismantling of Zamora too. I think that’s still arguably the biggest all-Mexico fight. Certainly the biggest of its era.

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