II start watching a fight, I always finish watching it, unless something in my life stops me, and that's only happened twice so far.
I'm assuming you mean the 3rd fight ? Honestly I've always thought their fights are very overrated. I've never thought any of the fights have that "wow" factor.
Fair call. I maybe should watch it again. I certainly can appreciate displays of nuanced genius - perhaps on the day I was hoping for some more fireworks. Not to discredit Benitez but Duran seemed lethargic within himself - but maybe that was all down to Wilfredo’s performance. Duran apparently trained very hard for that fight. I do remember however Duran kept shaking his arms as if they were seizing up on him and he wasn’t able to punch as energetically as normal. Again, you can never divorce the effect of the opposition from such things. Swinging and missing a lot wouldn’t have done Roberto any favours.
Never seen it. No intention of doing so. Fury resembles a wall of mud in the ring. Can't stand watching him.
But he's so quick! Moves so well! Better feet than Ali! A virtual caveman! A huge strong HW! He's....... Oh no, sorry, I meant Joe Joyce.
More of a technical trilogy. Neither guy wanted to be taken out. The "wow" factor was more about the results/legacy.
LOL, no aspersions on Joyce but these days, just one decent performance/fight will do it - suddenly you’re an ATG beating all and sundry through boxing history. IMO, a reaction symptomatic of an audience starved of consistently supplied, fair quality. What is simply a better than average performance immediately becomes the greatest thing since sliced bread. In today’s scene, the best new news often becomes old fake news awfully quick. Frequency and duration of upheld quality are notions of a dusty, carved in stone tablets past.
Tried sitting through one of the Alvarez-GGG fights, don't remember which. Made it to about the third round.
I classify those fights thus: fight I - stinker. 2/10 Fight II - improved action but an average at best fight. 5/10 Fight III - epic stinker. 1/10
I like the second fight the most because it's the first time that someone stood in front of GGG and was daring him to come and go to war. 3G had this big rep as a puncher and canelo was criticised for running and getting a decision he didn't deserve in the first fight. Nobody expected canelo to be taking the center of the ring and pushing GGG back.
One awful thing that remember nodding off in the middle of actually was Murray Sutherland-Wilford Scypion. Dreadful.
