Fights where attritional pressure fighters beat technicians

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  1. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hatton beating Malignaggi.
     
  2. clum

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    The two Alfonso Lopez vs. Guty Espadas fights
    Kimio Furesawa vs. Shoji Oguma
    Lightning Little vs. Michael Nunn
    Bazooka Limon vs. Chung-il Choi
    James Toney vs. Michael Nunn
    Roberto Duran vs. Ken Buchanan

    Of these, the Lopez vs. Espadas fights probably best match what this thread is looking for.
    Oguma wasn't really a top-level technician, but he was much more skilled than Furesawa.
    Little vs. Nunn was more the result of Nunn putting in very little effort rather than Steve Little breaking him down.
    Limon didn't break down Choi, either. He just dropped him with the first really hard body shots he landed all fight.
    Toney vs. Nunn and Duran vs. Buchanan played out in the manner specified at the start of the thread, although no one thinks of Toney as a pressure fighter or of Duran as technically inferior to anybody.
     
  3. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Do you consider Trinidad a pressure fighter?
     
  4. Flo_Raiden

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    Aggressive boxer puncher but he’s had fights where he came forward relentlessly and never stopped coming.
     
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  5. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Prayers for Pacman Full Member

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    I have never felt like MT was much of a technician he seemed extremely combative in an amateur style sort of way, do you see much difference from his Olympic days and the Chavez fight? Didn’t look like Benton had much if any influence on the guy.
     
  6. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Prayers for Pacman Full Member

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    He almost got killed trying to box Buddy in fight 2 doe…
     
  7. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    A killer robot is what Emanuel Steward called him
     
  8. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Me neither…when I watch his fight against Howard Davis …I don’t see two highly skilled technicians…I see two of the fastest guys ever
     
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  9. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Prayers for Pacman Full Member

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    He was tenacious but very flawed, sad how it ended up for him MT hit his ceiling so hard it broke him against JCC Snr his answer to everything the King of Mexico did was to fight back harder, harder and harder while his body was beaten to pieces if it was 15 rounds he’d have died but he had a helluva fighting heart like a pit bull terrier.
     
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  10. themaster458

    themaster458 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Probably right maybe his fights with Roger or Camacho are a better example just the first thing that came to my mind
     
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