Thread: Michael Watson -v- Ronald Wright

To me, style wise there is actually a lot of similarities also in terms of speed & power they seem fairly even.

I thought id throw this one out there because to me, it’s very hard to choose a winner

Please feel free to leave any opinions

Originally Posted by Jimboogie

To me, style wise there is actually a lot of similarities also in terms of speed & power they seem fairly even.

I thought id throw this one out there because to me, it’s very hard to choose a winner

Please feel free to leave any opinions

Winky baby!!! The Middleweight champ!! should be fighting Taylor again.....

Yeah i'll join you on that, mind you Watson, it could be said, had the beating of both Eubank AND Benn, which says a hell of a lot!

Draw... could go either way... make a nice trilogy

Absolute thriller mate


Three draws, what a depressing thought

Originally Posted by Jimboogie

Absolute thriller mate

the watson that fought eubank in 2nd fight i think would give winky a handful

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by Jimboogie

Absolute thriller mate

the watson that fought eubank in 2nd fight i think would give winky a handful

And beat him imo
Watson was ine and my older brothers fave fighter and was technically untouchable at his peak and had freakish strength and stamina.
Bit of a cliche but you literally had to kill him to stop him coming for ya!
That is the be all and end all of his predicament today
Watson was the don

If he's technically untouchable then Winky is technically a demi-god. Winky has superior skills, and IMO would win this fight because of them, he also has great stamina, and his jab.

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by Jimboogie

Absolute thriller mate

the watson that fought eubank in 2nd fight i think would give winky a handful

Yeah, he definately had Eubanks number that night, such a shame, that they never ot to have a triology. May of overshadowed the Benn-Eubank Double.

We'll never know but there is no way Winky would have had an easy night.
Watson was double hard

great great technical fight. watsons the best british fighter never to win a world title along with Herol Graham

Watsons misfortune in his three world title fights was that he fought cagey boxers. I always found Watson more effective when he played a counterpunching role.

Its a fight that goes the distance in my opinion but would have to edge towards Winkiy

SMASHUP yea Watson was untouchable in his peak Mike Mccallum didnt get near him on the skill front
LOL
Wason was better than Eubank and benn tho just didnt get the rub of the green.
Winky by UD since u r asking

Originally Posted by LBSCFC

great great technical fight. watsons the best british fighter never to win a world title along with Herol Graham

Watsons misfortune in his three world title fights was that he fought cagey boxers. I always found Watson more effective when he played a counterpunching role.

Its a fight that goes the distance in my opinion but would have to edge towards Winkiy

Youv'e nailed it absolutely spot on!
When Watson laid on his back foot,countered and boxed like he did against Benn he was untouchable imo
Can anyone tell me anyone else who put Nigel Benn on his ass with a jab,mid fight?

Originally Posted by LBSCFC

great great technical fight. watsons the best british fighter never to win a world title along with Herol Graham

Watsons misfortune in his three world title fights was that he fought cagey boxers. I always found Watson more effective when he played a counterpunching role.

Its a fight that goes the distance in my opinion but would have to edge towards Winkiy

Thats a very good appraisal.

I would sit on the fence and say it could have gone either way though. Its always difficult comparing fighters, and especially as Watson's career was cut so tragically short... we dont know how good he could have been

Watson was very average until the second Eubank fight, where he was leagues above anything we'd seen from him before.

Come on, all he had to do against Benn was tuck up. Nige was thee headless chicken against Logan and Watson.

Watson looked very stiff and one-paced against McCallum and really not difficult to pick off.

And Watson looked awful in the first Eubank fight when Eubank was there for the taking having lost 19lbs in four days and passed out the day before.

It wasn't until he started weight-training with Jimmy Tibbs to get his punches off sharper and harder, trained with the Arsenal football team to send his fitness into overdrive and used hypnosis techniques to get over the McCallum pounding that he looked like a world-beater - on that tragic night.

He wouldn't give Chris a moments rest on that tragic night, he'd slip, he'd throw a right hook, he'd follow it up with another right hook in the same place, he'd switch and throw a left hook to the body, then a left hook to the head, then stay on top of him and go again - just pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, non-stop, alnight. And everything Eubank hit Michael with, nothing, he kept on coming. But those hard arm punches would of been blocked by Winky Wright, and Wright would timed him with straighter punches. That style that night was devised specifically for Eubank, who pulled away or fell forward and didn't hold his hands up and needed those breaks he liked to pinch.


Watson only ever even looked world-class in the Benn fight and second Eubank fight, and it was only because he took advantage of each of their erratic flaws. Benn commiting himself first with no thought, hitting arms, gloves and elbows, leaving himself open for counters after swings had slammed the guard. And Eubank only ever able to fight in spurts.

Watson got over-rated on the Benn fight. He really did. Yes he appeared cool and precise, but Nige helped him appear cool and precise with the maniacal way he was fighting