Fight of the Fortnight #9: Come and Have a Go, If You Think You're Big Enough.

Yup, we finally got some HWs in here. Think of this as the HW/CW exclusive edition.

Mike Weaver vs Gerrie Coetzee
Leon Spinks vs Eddie Lopez
Bert Cooper vs Henry Tillman
Dillian Whyte vs Derek Chisora 1
Marco Huck vs Ola Afolabi 2
Ray Mercer vs Bert Cooper

Oh, you don't have to but I'm doing Spinks vs Bercardo and DeLeon too. Just to mix it up a little bit, if you have any obscure HW wars which don't get much shine, drop a recommendation and I'll try and score them, too.

Anyways, enjoy!

 

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1980-03-08, Non-Title Fight.

Harold Buck 95-94
Duane Ford 94-95
Hal Miller 95-95
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Round 1: Spinks 10-9, close.
Round 2: Spinks 10-9, clear.
Round 3: Lopez 10-9, close.
Round 4: Spinks 10-9, clear.
Round 5: Spinks 10-8, close.*
Round 6: Lopez 10-9, close.
Round 7: Lopez 10-9, clear.
Round 8: Lopez 10-9, clear.
Round 9: Lopez 10-9, clear.
Round 10: Spinks 10-9, clear.

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This was just a hectic brawl. Awesome to watch. Closet classic 10 rounder. The whole half an hour just slipped by.

I've never really had an opinion on Leon, I've always liked Mike, but never had am opinion of Leon. But he was classy in the interview and he didn't seem to mind the headbutt either. What I can say is, is what a fight! Highly recommendable.

 

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2012-05-05,

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CW Title

Ingo Barrabas 114-114
Zoltan Enyedi 115-113
Paul Thomas 114-114
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Round 1: Even 10-10, swing.
Round 2: Afolabi 10-9, clear.
Round 3: Afolabi 10-9, close.
Round 4: Huck 10-9, close.
Round 5: Afolabi 10-9, clear.
Round 6: Afolabi 10-9, swing.
Round 7: Huck 10-9, close.
Round 8: Afolabi 10-9, close.
Round 9: Huck 10-9, clear.
Round 10: Afolabi 10-9, close.
Round 11: Huck 10-9, swing.
Round 12: Huck 10-9, close.

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Draw was fine, but I don't really like this decision. Sure, there's swing rounds, and it was give and take, but I thought Afolabi clearly came out on top here. Solid fight, though.

Afolabi was clearly the more skilled guy, and his jab helped win quite a few rounds, and since Huck didn't really have one (or footwork, for that matter), it was easy pickings.

Huck was a cave man, Afolabi was a mad man. Fun fight, which was ugly at times, between two ballsy *******s.

 

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1983-03-06, Non-Title Fight

Frank Brunette 2-4
Richard F Murry 3-3
Phil Newman 1-5
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Round 1: Spinks 10-9, close.
Round 2: Spinks 10-9, close.
Round 3: DeLeon 10-9, close.
Round 4: Spinks 10-9, close.
Round 5: DeLeon 10-9, clear.
Round 6: DeLeon 10-9, clear.

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Don't really like this stoppage. Leon wasn't in that bad of a way, and he still had success. Half decent fight but nothing great. Just a workrate fighter vs a solid boxer-puncher. DeLeon fought like a bigger Rosario imo.

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1990-08-05, Non Title Fight.

Bill Newman 117-110
Vincent Rainone 119-108
Sid Rubenstein 117-106
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Round 1: Mercer 10-8, clear.
Round 2: Cooper 10-9, close.
Round 3: Mercer 10-9, clear
Round 4: Mercer 10-9, close. 39-36
Round 5: Cooper 10-9, swing.
Round 6: Cooper 10-9, close.
Round 7: Mercer 10-9, close.
Round 8: Mercer 10-9, close. 77-74
Round 9: Mercer 10-9, close.
Round 10: Mercer 10-9, clear.
Round 11: Even 10-10, swing.
Round 12: Mercer 10-9, close.

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Simple to score tbh, Mercer was winning rounds based off him dominating more. He was simply the better ring general.

Good fight, but like most HW fights, it's fast action in bursts with lots of lulls and holding.

Bert Cooper looks like Ashley Walters.

Both of these guys have iron in their mandibles.