What's the single most mindblowing performance you've ever witnessed.

Duran's performance in Duran-Leonard I. By so many millions and billions of light years that it may have happened many many galaxies away and not Montreal. It was a performance of extra-terrestrial brilliance.


Since I gave such a clear answer, I am allowing myself a couple of honourable mentions:

Pacquiao-Cotto
(I apologize for being an impressionable little fanboy, but when Pacquiao was standing straight up and square on, inviting Cotto to tee off on him, I was jumping up and down screaming at the TV in a rage because I couldn't understand why Pac was taking the chance of getting crippled by a livershot or badly hurt by a meaty welterweight hook. When it finally dawned on me that he was not being hurt at all, that he was welcoming the attacks to prove he was big enough and strong enough to cope, and that it was yet another Pac-Roach plan, I just laughed for a couple of minutes and enjoyed the massacre! Amazing, amazing stuff)

Olivares-Rose (pugilistic poetry, just all-round gorgeousness)

 

I have often said this. Morales took punches in the McCullogh fight that an elite fighter just should not have taken.

 

Good call, Olivares was immense that night

 

For all-round quality, Pac-Cotto is not on the same level as Duran-Leonard or Olivares-Rose, but a mere three days after the fight my mind is still sufficiently blown to merit inclusion.

 

Nice.

I'd like to throw in a Gushiken one but to be brutal it's the opposition that's holding me back. I liked Chang-Zapata though, i know there's the weight issues. But it's how he executes his plan to perfection. No messing around with a bit of patience to land a shot like Bassa etc, just got close, got low, and threw everything sharp and hard over the top till the job was done, and it was done fast.

I just wanted to chime in, don't know my real answer to be honest.

 

Well the bar was set about as low as you can get against old Daniel.

The real point is how amazing the gap can be between two top world class fighters as far as avoiding punches goes.Notas if Erik didnt beat Zaragoza comfortably in the end doing is own thing.

 

Hey I'm a old enough to remember that fight when it happened, never mind just being born b.s. But I do agree, if someone want's to watch a true boxing clinic..that's the fight to watch, it's as inspiring as it gets. And we people talk about how great Pac is or PBF is, I think of this fight, and the first Leonard fight if I want to put where they are into context of the great Roberto Duran.

 

No doubt it was partly because he had such a good chin in his prime.

 

Olivares-Rose.