What are some of your favorite bully getting bullied fights.

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You asked "what" to a very clear post.

 

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Rocky v Apollo Creed
Drago v Apollo Creed

 

Wouldn't say favourite but Benny Paret taunting Emile Griffith before their third and fatal final meeting should be a lesson to many.

Trash talking gone too far about Griffith, especially in those times. Brutal ending.

McClellan v Benn also, just got a bit too close to the knuckle, lit a fire in Benn who came out on top in a tragic war.

 

I used to alter Van Gogh's famous quote into: "I gave my body and heart to the craft, and I lost my mind in return" in context of boxing. One day Journeyman92 pointed out at how some professional prizefighters really did just that, or something along the lines, which made me associate the phrase with Benitez, Quarry, and the likes.

Later a buddy told me McGregor used to put Van Gogh in the context of combat sports (though I assume Vincent is used as an allegory of extreme state of dedication in many disciplines, with boxing definitely having the lost mind part all too real.)

 

that is sublime. should be written on the back wall of a boxing gym somewhere.

 

i dont know any more.
story is the basis of 'the cuban expereince' where after getting to the U.S. got lazy thought he was a big fish in a small pond and really didnt know how far he was from competance. low guard, a really rubbery sluggish jab and a crude inside game is screaming for help. but 6'7 and an amatuer star in the best am system in the world. "NAHHH im fine. i beat biggs, lewis and bowe. this pro game is light work"

even with bowes managment they were shocked at his egotism. and that had Riddick Bowe, Rock Newman, Jason Harris.

 

Super happy you see it that way.

 

there is that documentary about benn vs mcclellan and it had brendan ingle (who was one GMcs cornermen on short notice which is just absurd at how unprepared that crew was and how a world class trainer is getting a bucket job)
but Brendan Ingle was doing his chat to camera. and asks one of his young boxers to come over. and asks what does boxing allow you to do than any sport in the world? shy lad: "allowed to legally kill another person". "they all get told this" is the sort of 'look we told them' excuse for damage done by the sport.

and that mentality....is.....so wrong. you should'nt think you are rolling the dice anyways but it always struck me as YOU are the one who might kill somebody. it's like the soldier who who goes to war and is scared how he may react by seing a dead body. not connecting the dots that he can be the dead body.

 

It still amazes me that Kirkland survived the early rounds against Angulo but couldn't get out of the 1st against Ishida. If Ann Wolfe actually got him to warm up before fights like everyone else does then I reckon he wouldn't have been half as vulnerable as he was and might have even strung together a respectable career.

 

I think he was also caught off guard by Ishida´s range and speed.

Golovkin in the end rinsed Ishida, but if you pay attention then you can see that even he struggled with the range and speed of Ishida. In the first round Golovkin got caught pulling back several times. He thought he was out of range, but Ishida would still touch him. He even got caught when slipping punches.

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