What are some of the best undercard fights that overshadowed or were better than the main event...??? Some instances are: Wilfredo Vasquez vs. Naseem Hamed (Main Event) (UC) Chris Eubanks vs Carl Thompson Naseem Hamed vs. Cesar Soto (Main Event) (UC) Erik Morales vs. Wayne McCullough 　 Oscar Dela Hoya vs. Felix Sturm (Main Event) (UC) Jose Luis Castillo vs. Juan Lazcano 　 Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao 1 (Main Event) (UC) Jorge Arce vs. Hussein Hussein 　 Jermain Taylor vs. Cory Spinks (Main Event) (UC) Kelly Pavlik vs Edison Miranda 　 Roy Jones vs. Julio Cesar Gonzalez (Main Event) (UC) Erik Morales vs In Jin Chi
that was a damn good s**** and def stole the show. HBO was really pushing Miranda and thought Pavlik was going to get KOed.
Lennox Lewis-David Tua (UC) Clifford Ettiene vs Lawrence Clay-Bey And I'd disagree on Arce-Hussein being better than Morales-Pacquiao.
rigo-agbeko undercard kirkland-tapia....3/4 of the people in attendance left when the main event started. half of hbo viewers watched something else when that fight also started.
The best part of this doubleheader is that most everybody was certain it was going to set up Taylor vs. Miranda - including both of them. Miranda barely spoke any trash during the press conferences directed toward Pavlik - he was already chirping at Taylor assuming he would be his next challenger. :rofl Whoops!!
Garcia-Matthysse had me expecting so much from the main event, Floyd was excellent, but it just seemed anti-climatic from the fight had just seen.
It may have been a better fight with both viewed in a vacuum but I hardly think you can say it overshadowed the long-term magnitude of the main event. The decision in DLH vs. Sturm has been discussed at great length since then (and for a long time defined the latter's career and h2h worth more than any of his actual W's; while helping define the disaster of DLH moving up to 160lbs, along with the Hopkins pants-splatting KO) - while you hardly ever hear anybody mention JLC vs. the HCP.
Thomas Hearns vs Wilfredo Benitez (UC) Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor Julio Cesar Chavez vs Tony Lopez (UC) Jorge Castro vs John David Jackson
