Most memorable fights that stopped the hype train??

Reid was a really good fighter imo, solid in almost every area. He would almost certainly have gone on to win more titles had he not had eye problems and been thrown to teeto. He put a tremendous effort in that fight aswell. Controlled the first half of it, and showed balls and an iron chin.

 

mijares vs darchinyan

a slick, crisp punching, technically correct and flashy southpaw against a crude smaller older post hype exposed square on brawler.



also slip&counter it was AMSTERDAM i'm sure of it, was the guy who was all over mijares's nuts. he left after mijares lost...arrogant ****. (and returned under another alt....(YOU KNOW WHO :blood)

 

also jason litzau vs jose hernandez

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Who? :think

 

I've heard it was TFFP but I never really read much of Amterdams posts but TFFP denies it Just a rumour.

Reid was a good fighter but like its been said he was finished with those eye problems and was throwing in even quicker than Vargas was. Cintron looked very good vs Reid and reid looked the best he'd looked in ages.

Speaking of cintron he knocked the wheels off the Angulo express even though he was supposed to get steam rolled

 

Julio Cesar Garcia V's Troy Browning. Browning was near his 40's and Garcia was the next great Mexican fighter with 40 wins or something crazy in this day and age, especially for a 20 year old. Garcia looked bored throughout and sleep walked to a MD loss that should have been a UD. He had one fight a year later sparking a journeyman with the first punch he threw, he was then signed by Golden Boy but lost to Danny Perez on the Marquez V's Casamayor fight and they dropped him.

 

Harrison-Williams 1

I know a lot had already got off the Harrison wagon but there was still a fair few and after that we knew he was going nowhere

Tye Fields-Monte Barett could have been one for some people

 

That reminds me of Jaime Garza who was something like 40 and O and knocking EVERYBODY out. But most of his opponents were stiffs. The hype was HUGE. Went into every fight to have a shootout. Then he faced a journeyman/fringe contender called Kid Meza and got blown out in a round in a wild shootout. And it was a rap from there. Was never the same. He was the definition of a derailed hype train.

 

Bundrage over Baysangurov
Baysangurov was unbeaten and Bundrage was coming off a SD loss to Grady Brewer so was supposed to lose didn't quite work out like that as Bundrage KO'd Baysangurov in the 5th

 

Mijares was one of the best P4P fighters of that time. The Darchinyan loss was a massive shock, mainly because Vic wasn't supposed to be all that, or at least he was there to be outboxed (even after crushing Kirilov)

 

Meza was no journeyman. He was a solid contender. Not all that, but a ridiculous puncher.

Garza was a fun fighter, and could really punch but I agree, he was moved into the position he was by having people lined up for him to smash. Still, Meza had never been floored IIRC (not even by Gomez) and that first round is an alltime classic shootout. It ****ed Meza's punch resistance by the looks of it.

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See how Samart defended against Meza ;-) You like Sweet Pea, the Thai was just as naturally talented, in terms of all round fighting ability the best I've ever seen.

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Agree 100%, devastating right hand puncher as well.

 

The Vic defeat is a bad one for Mijares, a fighter with his skills against an opponent with his limitations..... it's a fight where there really ought to be only one winner.

Trying to think of other examples.... Margarito had some real momentum before being mullered by Shane, Khan's hype was in overdrive, Mitchell vs Katsidis.... loads but they're hard to think of.

 

Watson over Benn

 

Delboy halted the Helenius hype-train and he didnt even win :yep