Fights When Both Combatants Displayed Sweet Science

Lots of fights have been mentioned.

I love Juan Manuel Márquez vs El torito Díaz.

 

Duran vs Leonard I.

 

Dave Allen - Lucas Browne

 

I'm not so sure about that.
Have you ever read about Jirov's trainers tactics?

"The tough love approach of his coach Alex Apachinsky was particularly intense.

In the gym we have a long hallway on the first floor,” said Jirov, estimating the length to be around 100 meters. “It was a very big building. I was standing at the end of the hallway with the German shepherd dog five-feet behind me.

“They would let the dog go as I started to run. At the end of the hallway was a door and if I make it through the door before the dog attacked me, the door would be closed behind me. If not, I had to fight off the dog. I have a rope in my hand so I could put it in the dog’s mouth so it would not bite me too much.”

Amazingly, the coach wanted to use a leopard but settled on the lesser of two evils because they didn’t have one.

Apachinsky had different ideas on how to build endurance. He liked to take his fighters out to the middle of a lake and let them swim five or six miles back to shore.

“It took me three or four hours to swim,” Jirov recalled. “One of the boxers said he wanted to be a champion like me. My coach said, ‘OK’ and took him to the lake with me and dropped us in the lake and said, ‘swim’.

“He swam okay (at first) and then said, ‘I’m drowning and tired. I can’t do anymore!’ My coach said, ‘Nope, you want to be like Vassiliy, you have to finish swimming’ and left in the boat. I had to swim back with him to make sure he didn’t drown. When we got back to the shore, he started cussing and said he would never be back. He left and I never saw him again.”
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Yeah, I’m aware of what he went through. You’ll find many Soviet fighters went through similar ridiculous things to build mental toughness. The Dog/Leopard idea is fairly novel though as far as I know.

 

Toney vs Nunn
Lewis vs Mercer
Holmes vs Norton
Ali vs Young
Leonard vs Hearns 1
Ezzard Charles vs Jersey Joe Walcott
Joe Louis vs Billy Conn


Some more recent ones are
Cotto vs Mayweather
Jacobs vs Canelo
Ward vs Kovalev 1

 

Usyk-Briedis

 

The Sweet Science can and does get broken often. Calderon vs. Segura I if you want to see the Sweet Scientist lose, my favorite fight since it happened.

 

this one take it for me, the science was so sweet, I got several cavities just from watching it.

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Wright vs Taylor

 

I created a thread a while ago named "the worst match you've ever seen". This fight was my inspiration for my thread

 

Presumably, Emanuel Steward was referring to Julio Cesar Chavez when, behind on the scorecards, he dropped Meldrick Taylor in the final minute of the final round and then swarmed Taylor to try and get the finish.

Presumably.