The greatest performance you have ever seen?

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Absolutely!

Alot of great fighters are not 100% physically or mentally everytime out....virtually all find ways to squirm out of the predicamant they have gotten themselves into and at least make it a competitive battle.....
......in the face of their predicament, they bring out the greatness in them and will themselves back into the fight!

Except for a lucky shot in the 8th round, Tyson was so thoroughly dominated he was never in the fight.

That type of sheer domination does'nt come by a fighter having an off night or not having trained to his capabilities.

Tyson's weight was'nt off the norm, if he had'nt trained to full capacity, nobody even under those circumstances could have envisioned Tyson getting dominated the way he did!

 

A couple of questions


How do you see the Douglas that fought Holyfield going against Tyson?

How would you see the Douglas that fought Tyson going against Holyfield?

 

Good question JT, I'm off to get some sleep time, but I'll surely have a response for you tommorow!:thumbsup

 

Don't you know that I "breathe lasers and **** rainbows"? Don't you know that I can whip my weight in midget champions before breakfast and without taking off my coat? Don't you know? You should take care with whom you provoke.

 

I did justify it. You may not agree with it, but so what.

You call Foreman's reclamation of the heavyweight title 20 years after losing it at the age of 45 against an undefeated priming champion is "a 'gutsy performance"?! And I suppose "The Godfather" was an okay movie in your book.

Prediction for Sweet Pea --Foreman's feat will never be repeated in your lifetime.

 

Fair enough, Robbi. There are alot of sarcastic puddle-heads out here who compensate for poor to average posts by provoking others. You are not one of them.

A word on Foreman... I strongly beleive that he knew he was going to have to take a beating before he could find the shot. He factored it in -similarly to how Marciano knew that he was just going to have to "take" Walcott's jab all night ...and did.

A great performance should consider how well a man does with what he has... and Foreman captured that well.

 

No worries champ, at your leisure.

 

No.

Atlas was never a top trainer. Quite possibly the most overrated trainer of all-time.

I can't pick a single greatest performance of all time. In recent years I'd go with Pacquiao over Barrera. Pac moved up in weight and completely dominated a great fighter in Barrera, who was on the p4p scales, and in/close to his prime.

 

Hopkins v Trinidad
Duran v Barkley
Barrera v Morales 3
Ali v Foreman
Calzaghe v Lacy
Trinidad v Joppy ( gets credit if he had legal wraps )

Im sure there's more

 

Moorer had a good managment, they totally looked after him, I didn´t say he had the best trainer ever or so, I just meant, that Foreman´s win was really great, not the way he looked until that shot, I meant just the final result...

 

Wow. That Maxnomer -he's a pretty funny guy. He is.

 

Nigel Benn/McClellan. Benn fought with a passion and intensity in that fight that was unreal.

 

Exactly. It also counts under what circumstances the question was, because there are many differences, like "The best performance over 35 years", or "2 or 3 weight classes over your best", "The most unexpectet", or really "The best performace" only from a technical/ athletic- position... :good