Eusebio Pedroza-Juan LaPorte was an entertaining fight, and an extremely dirty one. I actually once tried to count how many fouls Pedroza committed, but I gave up after it reached the 40s. And this was on a highlight reel of a few minutes that I made. Pedroza should've been DQ'd. Frankie Liles-Tim Littles 2 is an often overlooked (or unknown) great fight. Dirty as hell, but a terrific short brawl, back-and-forth with KDs. Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota 2 was one of the most amazing fights I've seen. I remember seeing it when it happened and wondering how Bowe took all those shots. Other entertaining foulfests are Vincent Pettway-Simon Brown (the end overshadows the good back-and-forth fight it was), Bernard Hopkins-Antuwn Echols 2. Derrick Gainer-Freddie Norwood wasn't an especially good fight, but it was more interesting actually because of the fouls. Paul Sita's performance was one of the most incompetent I have ever seen.
Hopkins v Echols II. Many low blows, and Echols lifted Hopkins off the floor and as good as bodyslammed him. Hopkins' shoulder was badly hurt it seemed, as during the next round he dominated the with one hand. He eventually got the job done when he stopped Echols in the 10th I'm sure.
I understand they dont come any dirtier then Tony Galento Vs Lou Nova ? Duran seemed to be extremely careless with his head Against Buchanan - Before giving him a 2nd Adams Apple !!
Starling-Breland 1. Starling threw Breland to the canvas at least ten times before he put him down there with a bomb.
Just watched that one and indeed he was very dirty. He did do it often on the blind side of the referee though, something he wouldn't care much about in later fights.
How about Andre Ward vs Roy Ashworth? From Boxingtimes : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The real story on a sordid night with the performance of former American Olympic Gold medal winner Andre Ward (3-0, 1 KO), who scored a third round win over outclassed and outgunned super middleweight Roy Ashworth (3-2), in a scheduled six-rounder. Ward (163) won on a disqualification after Ashworth (162 ½ committed just about every foul in the book except using his stool to brain his opponent. The 2004 hero from the Athens first encountered problems with Ashworth, Lake Charles, LA., in the first round when the duo began wrestling and referee Ray Corona struggled to break the fighters. Several Greco-Roman holds late, the tone for the evening was set and more bad blood followed. After Ward, Oakland, California buzzed Ashworth with a sharp three-punch combination to the head in the middle of the round, fear and inexperience overcame the Louisiana brawler. With 55-seconds to go in the 1st, the referee took a point away for hitting on the break from Ashworth after clubbing Ward, 21 to the back of the head during a clinch. In the second round, Ward rocked his opponent out of a southpaw stance with a left handed bolo punch that caught Ashworth, 32 flush in the face. At the 1:55 mark of the 3rd, Ward dropped Ashworth with a right hand to the body followed by a scalding right uppercut to the chin and a left hook to the jaw. Ashworth hit the deck on all fours and when he tried to stand he careened sideways back into the ropes. The fight was allowed to continue but Ward again jumped on his opponent and blistered Ashworth with a half dozen more right and left uppercuts to the head. Ward continued to punish Ashworth with rapier-like left jabs that rocketed off his profile before hurting him again with a clean right cross to the jaw. Seconds later, Ward landed a sharp right hand but Ashworth shoved the former Olympian to the canvas. With Ward faced down on the deck, Ashworth hit him in the back of the head and then attempted to knee him in the spine, as both fighters ended up on the floor. Corona then calmly took a point away from Ashworth for kneeing his opponent and warned him about any future breeches in the rules. Unfortunately he didn't have to wait too long. Within seconds when the one-sided battle resumed, Ward scored with another five hammering shots and drove Ashworth back into the corner. With the fighters tied up, Ashworth clubbed Ward to the back of the head in a classic junior high school move. Corona had finally seen enough and disqualified Ashworth for about a dozen different blatant fouls. The time of the DQ was 2:56 of the third round. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anything with Sammy Serrano in it. Anybody remember how he'd start a match by approaching his unsuspecting victim with his hands out as if to touch gloves, only to clobber that challenger with suckerpunches when he responded in kind? ("Hey buddy, those are WBC rules. This is for my WBA title.") Serrano would have actually been a pretty dull performer, if he wasn't so filthy. He decked Diablito Valdez early, then the two of them kept attacking each other from behind after the bell rang. Eventually, the network was reluctant to cut away to commercial breaks because of the between rounds fireworks. When Sammy was finally dethroned by Roger Mayweather, the light hitting Serrano nearly took the chinny Black Mamba out-with a knee buckling and sense scrambling right elbow. Sammy won 15 WBA super featherweight title fights in seven years with his rough and slimy tactics. I would have loved to see Pedroza move up to take him on. (Which goes to show you just how demented I truly am.)
Holyfiled Tyson II Johnson Flynn II(I got all 9 rounds) About any Gene Fullmer fight. The Rabbit punch king.
Years ago the Gene Fullmer and Joey Giardello fight was dubbed "The Battle of the Billygoats" in the papers. Both butted each other repeatedly and flagrantly.
