[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqLRMYA7gbA[/ame] Maybe nothing in boxing beats a really huge ralley, the moment where the damaged man starts firing back and turns begins to the tide against all odds. I've seen this one a dozen times and I still can't really believe Numata survives that body shot. Rual's bodywork had already made him appear a little vulnerable with his elbows tucked right into his flanks, tilted forwards, actually offering his head as a target. And when he's ditched he's actually squriming - it's footage like this that makes you wonder if Oscar couldn't have clambered up after all :yep The body shots he ships in the remaining half minute are awful. Notice Rojas actually comes swaggering out for #5. Yoshiaki has obviously decided he's onto a loser now and he starts to swing for the rigging. His front-foot uppercuts were quite compact in 4, now in five he is throwing them off the backfooot (apart from when cornered, which is plenty) and they terminate about a foot above Raul's head when he misses...talk about punching through your opponent. He throws one shot that actually spins him through 180, fist in the air. Rojas is still looking for those horrible "round the corner" in-fighting punches - and then! Anyway, I love all that. What other great rallies are there and how do they compare to this one?
Rojas got a little over-confident. Numata was not a puncher but when you put as much behind your punches as he did there anyone could knock a man out. Amazing comeback because Numata really seemed done after the first body punch landed and defensively he was very vulnerable. I posted this British fight from the early 1910's to another thread but I think it fits here also: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDaIdOfO84[/ame] It's hardly what I'd call a boxing match, just a battle for survival after Moir first goes down.
Was watching ward vs gatti the other day, the first fight, and man some of them ralleys in that fight were crazy, the round after gatti goes down from a bodyshot was wonderful, after ward nearly takes him out early he then gassed, and then gatti threw tons of shots that drove mickey across the ring till he was shattered and nearly got took out at the end, i think its the 9th
That finish was thrilling. I think a great modern day example would be Vasquez vs Marquez II round 3... because of the ebb & flow and back and forth action it was probably more exciting.
