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

Thomas Hearns vs. Cueves and Duran.

 

Schmeling - Louis 1 - picking apart the most menacing hw ever in coldblooded fashion by using one single flaw in his game.

 

Has to be Duran-Palomino. Duran outhustles him on the outside, has the strength to bully the much bigger welter around, and negates his left hook to the body, dominating and decking him in the process. Duran's best performance for me, though I have a fondness for the patient sharp shooting he displays in the Guts Ishimatsu fight too.
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is it a really bait answer to say douglas-tyson?

taxi for 1.

 

Roy Jones Jr. against James Toney.
I wasn't expecting that level of domination at all.

The same can be said for Calzaghe v. Lacy, of course, but Lacy had obvious limitations. Whereas, I still cant fathom Toney being apparently outclassed by anyone.

 

louis vs schmeling II a fight of huge global importance and after getting beat by max to score such a convincing ko win showed total self belief and will to win

 

It gets mentioned quite a bit, but I've got to say Locche-Fuji. Fuji isn't likely to ever go down as the greatest fighter ever, but still.....un-****ing-believable. Locche's ability to slip, parry, feint, block off every inch of his upper body, roll from the shoulder OR the waist, read the trajectory of a punch before it was even thrown and set himself perfectly to counter with hooks, overhand rights and uppercuts was on full display. Almost savant-like.

 

hagler vs hearns, the two fought eachother as if they were possessed, neither would retreat or backdown for nothing, never slowed down or anything.

 

Tyson Douglas. I didnt go out after the fight, I was in such shock.

 

i should have been up earlier but i missed the school bus

 

Khaokor Galaxy vs Moon 2 is another favourite

 

Maybe there's hope for you after all.

 

I still have very strong opinions regarding the way Leonard is often viewed in the Classic, but I appreciate great fighters. Very few were greater than Roberto Duran and Ray Leonard. In the Manny Pacquiao vs Sugar Ray Leonard, you should have simply reiterated what everyone already knew. Pacquiao gets seriously hurt in that fight if his punch resistance allows it, everything else is a foregone conclusion.

 

Armstrong/Ross is another one. For a man to jump from feather to welter to face a fellow arguable top 10/15 all time great and longstanding champion - even if said champion was past his best - and then administer such a brutal pasting...... it's beyond extraordinary. And just as, if not moreso as, impressive as Duran jumping up from lightweight and outfighting Leonard.

 

Marvelous Marv's performance against Sibson left me stunned. He boxed as good if not better than anyone I'd seen that night. People get so caught up in the wars he had from 85 on that they forget Marvin was actually a boxer-puncher who was smooth as silk at his prime. and on the feb. night in 83, he was never better.:rasta