What is you favourite fighter's 1 favourite performance, and why?

Referring to my fav. fighter, it must be Abraham TKO5 Ikeke.

All time: Salvador Sanchez beating up Wilfredo Gomez.

 

Hopkins - Trinidad
Hearns - Duran

 

barrera - hamed i would think is one many people enjoyed!

 

Hatton vs Tszyu
Calzaghe vs Kessler
Haye vs Maccarinelli
Woods vs Gonzalez II
Lewis vs Tua
Mayweather vs Hatton/Corrales

 

Wow. I have so many favorites for so many different reasons.

1. Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries. Jack did what he did best, he schooled the Champion of the racist *******s of a Backwards America, and then after the brutal stoppage, got dressed up in his finest, got in his Hot Rod with a hottie White woman at his side, and drove off to the Hotel!!!:yep

2. Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney....Again, Larry one upped Racist America by defeating the Jeffries of the 80's and proved his absolute dominance among the Heavyweights.

3. Ali-Foreman....De Rumble in de Jungle.....what a Fight, what a worldwide Event, on the night that Ali dies and goes to Heaven, I guarantee you I will be watching this fight, or perhaps watching "When We Were Kings" and bawling like a little baby, guzzling gin, and mourning and celebrating my Hero, Muhammad Ali, the Greatest. ALI BOOM-AYE!!!

4. Trinidad-DLH. The song "Flash" by Queen always comes to mind when I think of Trinidad's fight before this one, on HBO against Hugo Pineda, was it??....The entire Earth was sick of Oscar de la Hoya, and Oscarmania. I was watching the Fight, and as Tito was going to enter the ring, the beautiful Borricuas had signs that said "Oscar's Next" and HBO=He'll Beat Oscar, and I was at one with my people, as Freddie Mercury, sang FLASH!!!Oh UHHHH!!! SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!!!....and Flash Gordon defeated the Evil Pestillence that was Oscar the Merciless on September 18, 1999, one of my favorite dates in Boxing History, and I was there, baby.

5. Duran-Leonard I. If I had a time machine I'd travel back to June 20, 1980, and be in the Ring with Duran after the fight, and lift him on my shoulders after he was announced the winner.

 

I'll say this PACFAN84 pac's rematch against Morales was excellent. My favourite fighter though is Joe Calzaghe. He is great. He is so exciting and he can do it all, toe to toe sluggin, boxing, counter punchin, switch hittin, on the inside, on the outside, he is the man. All his fights are exciting and entertaining for onr reason or another.

Thus shieka fight was great, he ****ed him up, bad. And ended his career as a potential star. Much like what he done to Lacy, which was another great, great fight. Lacy was just like Pavlik; the Future. Apparently. But coz he was black he was'nt rated p4p as fast as Kelly. THe monster was dominated and broken. Ive personally never seen the like of that total domination. The Hopkins fight was top drawer if you ask me. The technical side of that bout was the best any two fighters in this world can fight technically, and Joe edged it with his adaptability and unmatched heart. But for me Joe's best performance was Kessler.

Kessler was so big, i mean he should fight at atleast LHW. He so physically impressive he reminded me of Ivan Drago. He is such a strong and spirited boxer. His technique is almost perfect, has classical posture and movement are almost without comparison and his power is crazy. And yet Joe just utterly outboxed him and basically walked straight through Kesslers best shots and kept comin. Not just kept up the pressure say, like Margarito, but boxing and moving superbly. He gave what was almost a complete performance. In rounds 5-6 he boxed so perfectly that Kessler looked so pedestrian that it seemed almost like a demonstration, Kessler for all his quality could'nt do a thing. One of the best nights of boxing i have ever seen, outstanding.

 

Trinidad is my favorite, and his absolute destruction of Joppy in his first fight at middle is my favorite. A lot of people were doubting he'd carry his power up, but man did he ever prove them all woefully wrong.

 

Calzaghe vs Kessler was an excellent fight to watch, but much closer than you suggest.

I scored it 115-113, the judges were a bit wide for me.

Kessler
Kessler
Kessler
Kessler
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Calzaghe
Kessler

:deal

 

The greatest performance that I have ever seen was the late Diego Corales' KO over Jose Luis Castillo.

In fact the greatest fight I have ever seen.

Leonard - Hearn I is also one of my favorites

Trinidad - Vargas - was great as well

 

Corrales vs Castillo was the best fight I have seen, but neither were my favourite so left it. It is fair to say that neither were the same after that, espec Chico - almost reminded me of Nigel Benn the way he deteriorated after that (though under totally different circumstances).

 

Beeston, dude i respect you but i dont know where you were for the third round. Joe won that easily. He was bamming him up with overhand lefts out of nowhere, total quality. Did you see the ali shuffle? You cant do that unless your in control he took his eyes clean off him and shuffled then turned and faced him again. You have to be class to do that. Anyway, he won the third round in this and any other world, time or place.

 

On reflection you are right - though the ninth could go to Kessler

 

Yeah mate im not saying it was totally one sided, it was'nt. It could'nt have been. Kessler is just too good a boxer to ever dominate. But thats what was so good about it, every time Kessler took off Joe changed gear. Man that was so beautiful to watch and so so very hard to do. I loved Kessler before he fought Joe, man i remmember watchin the Bayer fight and that was serious. I also worried badly coz he's so strong n powerful that i thought he might be able to really shake Cal and hurt him bad but he hit him as flush and as powerfully as he hit Bayer when he knocked him into next week and quite unbelievebly Joe just kept comin forward like it was'nt ****. Not that im sayin Joe was'nt rocked im just saying he didnt let it affect him, how he managed it i do not know.

 

Kostya Tszyu - and the victory of zab judah was very special but nothing is the same as the way he came back from being dropped in the first round twice by middleweight diosbelys hurtado to win by a explosive KO in the 5th

 

Current favourite fighter: Wladimir Klitschko. My favourite performance of his, is strangely enough his fight with Samuel Peter. Wlad was considered done and for the dogs. He came out there and outboxed Peter to an embarrassing degree, but more importantly, showed he could get up from (illegal) knockdowns and continue to fight and finish a winner.

All time is Lennox Lewis (I didn´t start watching boxing a lot till about 1999). His favourite performance of min is against Hasim Rahman in the rematch. Lewis was coming of a humiliating and disappointing loss because he had not trained hard enough for the first fight. The Rock had talked such sh*t and been so arrogant, it was really sweet to see Lewis com back in shape, totally dominate him and knock him flat out.

I guess I like performances where a fighter redeems himself.