What's the longest/most complex series of baits/counters you've seen in a fight?

I watched some of his stuff before and thought he was just a really effective, negative-type fighter. Upon re-watching I am just blown away.

 

Not the best example, but this fight certainly had an abundance of baits. Not too often a whole series of counters, though. People who think Mayweather invented the pull right counter.

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Ali took away Bugner's jab effortlessly in this fight.

 

Charley retired in 1950 at just age 32, the same age Smith was at for Billy Noble in May 1953. (Crazy to think Harold Johnson was OBS's penultimate win in October 1954.)

Burley just didn't hang around quite long enough to have kinescope recordings preserved of him in competition on early telecasts. He competed seven times in 1945, five times in 1946 (which might be thought of as his last great year at age 28, so at least we have that prime footage of Charley-OBS II), then he tapered off activity dramatically, just before post war television kinescopic technology could become established.

Smith is 25 years old when we see Burley taking him to school. Oakland Billy was coming off a ninth round knockout of Lloyd Marshall, preceded by a decision loss to a peak Bivins. In December he would draw with Moore over 12 for the movie cameras in defense of his CA LHW Title (messing up Archie's face). A peak Charles managed to decision Smith that year, and that was it for blemishes on his 5-3-1 campaign for 1946. 1W (KO1)-3L (KO 0)-1D against future HOFers is insane competition by the standards of 2012.

I think we're seeing a much better version of Burley against a much better caliber of opponent in Smith than has commonly been suggested.

 

Cant remember which fight, but i saw Duran once with his righg in the air, he faked a straight, faked a lead uppercut, then threw a quick lead uppercut and a straight. Pachilles saw what he had done and said, it was good

 

mayweather best fienting show was agaisnt corrales. left jab to the body was actually a hiden left hook corrales could never see it. specially when floyds righ hand was loaded all night.

 

I think the Eubank/Randy Smith fight had some prolonged feinting, if I recall.

 

The first five rounds of Leonard-Hearns 1 are essentially a feinting game, and even though Hearns won the majority of them, Leonard managed to sell the idea of head-hunting enough to be able to shift his attack downstairs and turn the fight in his favor as a result.

 

Hearns - Benitez excepting effective countering opportunities were very limited. Man was there some feints.

 

Some of Toney's brilliant combinations against Iran Barkley.