Classic Tuesday Night Fight - One round heavyweight seesaw brawl with an ATG knockout

I like O'Grady quite a bit as well, though I can't say I was lucky enough to of been a fight fan when he was calling them. He was tremendously well spoken considering how many fights he had, including a few real tough ones like the John Veradosa fight O'Grady retired off of or his first big step up against the like force that was Danny Lopez.

I'm actually all for this... where's the sign up paperwork and where do I get one?

 

I'm with you sir!

Just saw your O'Grady thread RC, going to pop in there and try to come up with a good post...

 

Thanks lepin!

 

Just actually gave this fight a watch, and all I can say is wow... I had heard this fight passingly mentioned years ago in some discussions regarding the bloodiest fights of all time, or the worst cuts of all time, something like that. Someone nominated this bout and it stuck in my mind forever as a kind of footnote. And boy, that is a gusher of a cut... and so very Rocky like, the entire nature of the cut and then the doctor inspection, the it's only a scratch one liner, then a rally to grasp victory from the clutches of defeat.

O'Grady also always looked so damned BIG in the ring. You can hardly think of a fight where he doesn't make his opposition look small in comparison. What the hell was up with the mans weight cutting procedure? Did he do it to purpose to have a huge physical advantage? Was that really just the normal weight O'Grady was making?

 

I love going to boxrec and linking fighters up like that. Creates a sort of big web in my head. It's always interesting to see how careers panned out in the long run, and it's always a bit of a bummer to look up fighters that seemed like they had all the potential in the world but it just never came together for them.... and they never even gained the type of shots a Joe Hipp level fighter wound up getting. Boxing's a funny game.