The 10 most skillful bantamweight fights you've seen on film

Pintor-Davila II
Rose-Harada

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Harada vs Jofre I and II
Harada vs Rudkin
Rose vs Rudkin
Olivares vs Rose

The Golden Age of Bantams definitly produced some great skill filled matches.

EDIT: Rudkin vs Walter McGowan was another great fight from that era.

 

Aaaargh, you runt. That's my contribution done before I could even think about touching the fecking keyboard. :|

 

All great fights, and you know what they say about alike minds.

Does anyone think any Zarate bouts could slip in here?

 

I suppose it depends on what you think of the level of competition that he faced outside of Zamora and Pintor. The Zamora fight was a sidewinder, but I don't know how high I'd rate it in terms of skill. And the Pintor fight is a bit disappointing at times IMO.

Still, I've not watched any other fights of Zarate's for quite some time apart from the Batista one (in which the latter displays a good level of competency IMO before Zarate breaks him down.)

 

I'm going to have to watch the Davila-Zarate fight again - haven't seen it for a long time. My memory is of Zarate being too strong and complete, but Davila was a really neat little operator at his best. Stumbling across Zarate, Gomez, Pintor and Lora in a single lifetime could probably be construed as being a tad unfortunate.

 

Rose/Sakurai is up there with the best I've seen from a technical standpoint.

 

Let me know how you scored it as well. I've wondered why this fight hasn't been brought up as a black mark against Rose before. Sakurai makes the otherwise fluid and technically sound Rose look plodding at times. I was very surprised by his skill level.

 

I'll add Orlando Canizales-Clarence "Bones" Adams to the ones already mentioned.

 

Yeh the Sakurai-Rose fight is very good.

I felt Rose just nicked it, but as you say Sakurai made him look plodding although I felt he did this by forcing Rose out of his comfort zone by making him take the offensive. Although I thought Rose gutted it out to just nick it.

I do not think it is a black mark for Rose at all.

 

Well I won't argue with that selection

Davila vs Pintor is one of my favourites along with
Olivares vs Castillo 2