Unknown/Forgotten Great Fights

everybody talking about not so long ago. how about pete mead vs joey dejohn in the 1948 madison sqare garden fight with so many knockdowns they lost count, i heard the radio broadcast had as many as 10 knockdowns in 7 rounds with mead down all but 4 of the times and won the fight. called the bloodiest fight in garden history, those were the good old days.

 

Jesse James Hughes vrs Anthony Stephens
Lupe Gutteriez vs Jeff franklin 2-fought on the undercard of camacho/mancini.

Kevin Pompey vrs Tyrone Trice-Pompey had sooo many wars on ESPN.


Tommy Cordova vrs Garcia/Roach-OUCH.

Buddy Mgurit vrs Vince Releford
Mickey Ward vrs Frankie Warren
Harold Knight vrs Kenny Baysmore
Thomas Tate vrs Shekia
Ivan Robinson vrs Gatti 1
Autro Gatti vrs Jose Sanabria
Roger Mayweather vrs Zack Padilla
Roger Mayweather vrs Harold Brazier
Iran Barkley vrs Robbie Simms
Greg Haugen vrs Vinny Paz 1-even though Haugen got robbed
Ray Mancini vrs Bramble 1/2
Ray Mancini vrs Kim/Romero
Carlos Santos vrs Mark Medal
Mattew Hilton vrs Buster Drayton
Terry Norris vrs Troy Waters
Simon Brown vrs Maurice Blocker
Calvin Grove vrs Jorge Paez 1
Kid Akeem vrs Quiorga
Vince Phillips vrs KT
Robin Blake vrs Ruben Miunoz
Harry Arroyo vrs Ali/Brown
Charlie Brown vrs Louie Burke
JEFF HARDING VRS ANDRIES 1-WOW
Bobby Joe Young vrs Chambers
Thomas Hearns vrs Juan Roldan
Billy Costello vrs Ronnie Shields/Lonnie Smith
Mike Weaver vrs Dokes 2

 

Hagler-Mugabi: This is the fight that took everything from Hagler, He wasn't the same afterward. Classic War.
Limon-Chacon: Pick one! They were all wars.
Chicita Gonzalez-Sorjaturong: Brutale slugfest with a suprise ending!
Lupe Pintor-Wilfredo Gomez: Awswome fight Before Pintor wilted in the fourteenth.
Colin Jones-Milton McCrory: Great fight! Jones should have had it!
Jose Luis Ramires-Edwin Rosario: Great fight!

 

Terance Ali- Rameriez
Jose Luis Rameriez vs Rosaio 2
Terrance Ali-Charles Murray

 

I just finished watching Jake Lamotta/"Irish" Bob Murphy 2, what a slugfest this was. Its definitely worth finding :good

 

Ingemar Johansson

 

one fight of the more modern era that was one of the most enjoyable things i had watched in a long time was...

Diego Corrales (25-0) vs Gairy St Clair (15-0-1) back in 1998.

IBF Feathweight Title Eliminator

both fighter came in undefeated and put on a show, Corrales was supposed to just knock St Clair out i think but he put on a really good show.

Corrales UD12 St Clair but it was not expected to be such a tough competeitive fight, Gairy nailed Corrales alot of times with the overhand right and had him shaken at some points. There where alot of power punches thrown and landed but neither would lie down. Entertaining as they get with both ifghters just going at it.

Great Fight....

 

I heard Seabrooks-Canizales was good

 

You heard right (for fight one)!

 

This is a one sided demolition, rather than a barn-burner but...

Winky Wright v. Adrian Dodson

Back in about 1997, Dodson was touted as the next big thing in British boxing.

Wright put on an unbelievable show, barely getting hit in 6 or 7 rounds while coolly pot-shotting Dodson with his southpaw jab. It was really masterful.

Did anyone else watch it?

 

Yeah, Boza was thought to be a stepping stone for "Golden Guy."

I can't believe Villegas didn't get a warning or a point taken away for that bush league maneuver of holding Boza's head still with his off hand. Boza could have gotten hurt.

Boza blocked a lot of Villegas's shots throughout and let him punch himself out.

Villegas was a similar level to Verderosa, but Boza wasn't as prime in '84 as he was in '82 so it took him longer to beat Villegas than Verderosa.

Boza showed he wasn't "shot" and beat later respectable Choo Choo Brown, Melvin Paul, John Montes, and drew with Terrence Ali in a fight Boza appeared to win 7-3 or 6-4.

If he'd have beaten Ali, he likely would have fought Bramble instead of Camacho - and he could have been very competitive against Bramble.

As for Frias/Chacon, it is on youtube. The first round is insane action. Frias had absolutely no defense but he threw tons of shots and dropped Chacon early.

 

Although I don't believe there is video footage available, The Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad)/Billy Douglas (father of Buster) fight was described as an all out war.

In an article about the fight, the ref. is quoted as saying something like "Both guys were taking very heavy punishment, but at least Franklin was throwing back."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLn-rGSo08

Here's a good one I had actually never seen before

It wasn't televised, at least nationally, at the time.

Roger Mayweather, coming back after losing in a WBC super featherweight title shot against JC Chavez, fights the guy Chavez beat for the title - Mario Martinez

Mayweather ignores the jeers of the Olympic Auditorium crowd, and outfights Martinez from the outside and even on the inside.

Martinez was very good, in fact, one of the better fighters never to win a World title. After this close loss, he built a winning streak before losing by SD to Azumah Nelson for the title vacated by Chavez.

After that, Martinez lost again to Nelson, then lost a decision to Jeff Fenech, when Fenech was prime.

 

Pretty much any fight involving Teddy Reid in the late 90s/early 2000s, with exception to the tragic Valdez fight.


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The topic was "unknown or forgotten" fights. I never hear much about Ric Enis and Craig Bodzianowski going life and death after C.B was coming back from the motorcycle wreck and prothesis. Another one I was lucky enough to catch that was a back and forth thriller that never gets referenced was Davey Hilton coming from wayyyyyy behind to wear down and stop Stephen Oulette. I remember wondering at the time if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing.