The greatest performance you have ever seen?

As far as digging deep within and displaying unreal heart, Castillo-Corrales 1 is one of the greatest performances I have ever seen.

 

Yeah if there was another referee it probably would have been stopped when chico went down the 2nd time.
Good fight and lots of courage by both.

 

Obviously 15 pounds of fat took some of the sharpness and fluidity out of Douglas against Holyfield.

The Douglas who beat Tyson imo would have given Holyfield a better fight. How much of a better fight is a big question mark!
Holyfield was just so much faster than Douglas that its hard for me to envision Douglas being able to beat a multifaceted fighter like Holyfield.

Douglas most likely would have been sharper with his jab and alot better with avoiding power shots had he been in the condition he was with Tyson.
But remember, that was a prime Holyfield that Douglas faced.
......even a greatly conditioned Douglas imo would have had trouble trying to guage Holyfield, in that Holyfield fought hopping on his toes, in and out and moving laterally. This along with the speed had Douglas offbalance and guessing what Holyfield would do next.

I dont think it would be a whole lot different had Douglas been in better shape.
He most likely would have been more agile and a bit quicker not to get caught with that stupid lead uppercut he threw out of desperation that resulted in him getting KTFO.

Holyfield just did everything better than Douglas, he was quicker, faster, and had better stamina, heart, and ring smarts.

Had Douglas come in better shape, he could very well have made it close through the first 6 or so rounds if he could have established his reach advantage and been sharper with the jab.
But ultimately, Holyfield had too much skill and too much will that imo he would have stopped Douglas sometime in rounds 8-10!



How would Tyson fair with the version of Douglas that fought Holyfield!
I believe Douglas would have used his jab to outbox Tyson early, just like he did when they met......but a fighter who came in as bad a shape that Douglas did for Holyfield is more apt to get lazy and make mistakes, and those mistakes are costly if you're dealing with Mike Tyson.
In a fight Mike Tyson is losing, Douglas imo loses steam because of the fat he is carrying around and gets KO'd somewhere in rounds 4 to 7!
This insinuating that Douglas fight non-intimidated of Mike Tyson.
Through his reach and skill, he could still outbox Tyson in the early going imo even if he was'nt in the best of shape.
.......but if you really think about it, Douglas more than likely would have stepped in the ring scared stiff of Iron Mike, had he been in less than superb shape.
.....and as we know, that more than likely results in a very early KO!

In any regards, scared stiff or not, there is absolutely no way that Douglas could have sustained any success he may have had during the long haul of a fight if he came in anything but superb shape vs Iron Mike Tyson!

 

Roy Jones, Jr.'s utter domination of James Toney.