Fighter who fought exactly the same in a rematch?

Holy vs. Iron Mike

That's why Mike threw in the towel (or, more suitably, spit out the ear).

 

Andrew Golota Vs. Riddick Bowe
"exactly the same style without making any changes"

 

Ehh, holyfield did spoil maul and burrow in even more than he did the first time. He spent virtually no time at mid and long distance the second time.
When the first round started and he saw that tyson was moving his head and jabbing he went to the inside right away and the rest is history.
Holyfield was winning but winning much uglier than the first time. Tyson looked technically and physically much better than the first time but mentally imploded.

The confidence of knowing that wrestling, mauling and bumping was a successful part of the gameplan the first time probably also reinforced Holyfield in doing it the second time.

 

Miguel cotto vs Antonio Margarito. Almost the same

Marquez vs pacquiao

Mike Tyson vs Razor Ruddock.

Joe frazier vs Muhammad ali

Usyk vs Joshua

 

Why would the winner change their game plan?

 

Direct quote from Tyson himself in reference to the second Holyfield fight: "I was tired of the ref letting Evander get away with the butting, but to be honest he was kicking my ass anyway".

Hard to refute words from the man's own mouth. Holyfield lookd in control far earlier than he did in the first fight...I think the fact that Mike seemed a bit more on top of his game the second time is the reason for it. Mike apparently saw the end result coming earlier than it did the first time, so he opted out.

 

Here's one, Ray Boom Boom Mancini vs Livingston Bramble II, WBA Lightweight Title, Feb 16 1985, televised by HBO.

 

Danny Lopez against Salvador Sanchez
Curtis Cokes against Jose Napoles

Both fights were pretty much repeats in their rematches.

 

Salvador Sanchez stopped Danny Little Red Lopez by TKO 14 on June 21 1980, the day after Duran vs Leonard I. Curtis Cokes was stopped by Jose Mantequilla Napoles on June 29 1969 by TKO 10 both of these title bouts were rematches.

 

Yaqui Lopez vs Matthew Saad Muhammad even the famous 8th round in their 2nd fight was identical to the 1st fight.

 

Good Post.

 

Even though I’m in a minority here as I scored the second Holmes/Spinks fight for the champ, I tend to think it was largely a repeat of the first fight with Holmes trying to get aggressive early being the big difference.

 

No problem, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

 

These are the ones that came to mind first. Cheers, Flo