How do you define a great fight?

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  1. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Holyfield - Bowe?
     
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    What are a few of your favorite examples, rc?
     
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    That's your bare standard for a great fight?

    Man, that's a pretty exclusive club in that case.
     
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  4. mrkoolkevin

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    Sorry, I misread your question. Cotto-Torres? (even with the outrageously bad reffing and commentating re: Cotto's constant, flagrant low blows).
     
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    I haven't watched that fight in so long... I remember Cotto, Torres and Holt had this circle of exciting fights going on for a period of time...
     
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    Well, I remember Alexis Arguello vs Alfredo Escalera l....Cosell even helped heighten the drama in that fight when the decked, lacerated, butchered, outclassed, outfought, out everythinged Snake Man mounted a resurgence late in the fight....and Howie referred to him as a "proud, stubborn champion" in that inimitable way of his....and Escalera tried his best, but AA was just too much for him.
    Archie Moore vs Yvon Durelle l is another example.
    Eusabio Pedroza resisted passing that torch to Barry McGuigan quite admirably,...though it's debatable as whether you could call that one a "great fight"...
     
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