Fights that are commonly misremembered

everyone knows holyfield was robbed

 

The obvious one is Castillo-Mayweather 1. The cards were an unjustifiable joke.

Also, Jones-Griffin 1. Time has clouded the memories to the extent that many people think Griffin was dominating Jones, but in fact Jones was up on two of the cards at the time of the DQ.

Another would be Nunn vs Toney. So many people talk of this fight as if Nunn won every round until Toney landed a 'Hail Mary', but I'm sure Toney had swept the last 3 rounds before the decisive punch, he had already turned the fight around.

 

A lot of people seem to think that the second and third Gatti v Ward fights were classics on par with the first. The truth is that both fights were decent and nothing compared to their first meeting.

 

:good Good call. (although I love all the drama of those fights, friendship ect..)
The first fight was the only TRUE classic.

 

Ha, I'm probably going to get stomped on for saying this, but I would put Mayweather-De La Hoya in that category. Don't get me wrong, I think that Oscar was able to capitalise on some of the oddities of Mayweather's style and I wouldn't argue with the split decision, but I never felt it was an exposure of Floyd's weaknesses like a lot of people claimed. I've heard people talk as if Oscar taught him a lesson but to me, Floyd never really looked out of control and only showed that he can coast a bit sometimes.

 

haye-ruiz!
fact: ruiz has been a great grandfather

 

haye is 'GRANDFATHER BOXERS' ruler!!!!!!!!1:hat

 

The 2nd was really good, the 3rd not so much. Still, a great trilogy.

 

Haye-Valuev. Most people on here seem to think Haye put on a clinic in that one, did he ****.

 

I think a lot of people think Trinidad destroyed Vargas, but it was actually a pretty close fight and Trinidad may have just benefited from some well timed low blows...

 

he still won easily.

 

Lucian Bute- misremembered by all that he was actually koed12th round v andrade