Gatti's first fight with Ivan Robinson is 2nd on my list of best fights of the 90s, behind Carbajal-Gonzalez I. I also thought either Gatti-Rodriguez or Barrera-McKinney (or Golota-Bowe 2) should've been FOTY for 1996. They were all better than Holyfield-Tyson 1. Besides Augustus in 2001, Ward had two excellent bouts in 2000 against Neary and A. Diaz. That was a hard year to compete for FOTY with Barrera-Morales I and Trinidad-Vargas.
Bruno??? He had a great punch and a great jab. Besides the two Tyson fights he was winning in all of his loses.... Lewis, Witherspoon, Smith.
Ward's world title was the WBU, which is a real fringe title. Luis Santana is the most limited fighter I can think of that won (stole) a world title, off the top of my head.
Well its not an exact much, but the trilogy for one, Zale playing Gatti, being the better regarded fighter, and winning 2 of 3, and Ward being the incredibly exciting warrior with the one win. Differences exists, like you said in terms of age and size, but its a close comparison I think.
Any recordings of Gatti - Ward should be incinerated, I don't want that kind of defence being promoted
Joe Calzaghe's hands are almost ghost-like at times and do appear to travel through solid flesh -fullstop-
Yeah, they're especially ghost-like when it comes to Glen Johnson and how they are injured. You can't see them.
WHoah, Ward has been in 3 fight of the years. 2 with GAtti, and one with Emanuel augustus. Get your facts straight. So 3 fight of they years, come on, you would have to rank him up there. Certainly not the best. But not the worst either.To call Ward, a 3 time fight of the year award winner a journey man is a slight exaggeration. I say he was fringe contender. COntender at best.