Scenarios in boxing history...

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  1. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Where a fighter was defeated...but went on to accomplish, and be judged greater than the fighter who beat him...(no rematches) :think
     
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    Alexis Arguello and Ernesto Marcel.
     
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    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Really good example!
     
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    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Floyd Patterson-Joey Maxim.
     
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    Kostya Tszyu vs Vince Phillips
     
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    Manny Pacquiao Rustico Torrecampo
     
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    Iran Barkley vs Robbie Sims
     
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    Hopkins/Calzaghe.
     
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    mandell v mclarnin

    barkley vs hearns (confirmed in rematch)
    benitez v duran
    laing v duran
    lots of other people v duran
    tarver v jones (also confirmed in rematch)
     
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  10. timmers612

    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Most of these were not fighters who went on to be better then the one beating them, but fighters who were already toward the end of their careers and past their primes.
     
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    A blond bomber named Jock Leslie kod a young guy named Sandy saddler
    in 1944. Saddler became a great featherweight champion by defeating Willie Pep...Jock Leslie had a good career, and was later kod by some chap named Willie Pep...And so the wheel turns...
     
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    Stevie Cruz was bombed out in the First by Lennie Valdez - Whatever became of Lennie ?
     
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