Street Fighting Mentality in the Ring...

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  1. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe "street fighting' isn't exactly the correct term to use...But sometimes boxing can escalate to something that can't really be called a sport...

    Was recently watching some film on Jack Dempsey and Aaron Pryor...Two fighting styles I really admire...
    Dempsey fought with an aggressiveness that pushed his opponents into survival mode, and viewing the fight with Willard...it wasn't a prize fight, it turned into a fight for survival...Same can be said for Pryor...Alexis Arguello may have been over his weight class, but his career was rolling, and he was a totally unflappable, ice cold, professional assassin...Pryor took him literally into hell in Miami...
    What are some of your examples?
     
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  2. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Mamcini Kim
    Saad vs Lopez
    Come immediately to mind
     
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    lloydturnip Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Benn v McClellan.brutal
     
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    Brixton Bomber Obsessed with Boxing banned Full Member

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    Gatti/Ward
     
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    Ricardo Mayorga came to mind
     
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  6. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Exactly...I remember an old Sports Illustrated article that reported on Mancini/Kim fight...on a lamp shade, Kim had written in Korean..."kill or be killed" it was said. That was the mindset he went into the fight with...and Sadd??? Damn. He went to that edge nearly every time. What a fighter.
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Holyfield always had a bit of street fighter in him. Even when on the wrong side of the power or size equation, he didn't mind trading leather for leather.
     
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  8. Gannicus

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    More recently, Orlando Salido vs Francisco Vargas. What a street fight. If you haven't watched it, watch it.
     
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    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I haven't seen it...but will check it out. Thanks.
     
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  10. Eel87

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    Hagler vs Hearns comes to mind as a fight for survival.
    Limon vs Edwards 4, Ali vs Frazier 1 & 3, Tito vs Vargas.
    I need to watch Saad vs Lopez.
    I think you're referring to just very violent dgaf fighters.
     
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    zadfrak Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Kallie Knoetze was a brawler of this style of street fighting & a former rugby player.
     
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  12. Gannicus

    Gannicus 2014 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    You're going to love it. Seriously.
    Salido is the best 'dirty' fighter in the game today, and one of the best on the inside.
     
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  13. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    John the heat verdarosa...tapia wen he got angry too
     
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    Nigel Benn certainly.

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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Iran Barkley mustafa Hamsho
     
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