Personal experience?
Barrera - Naz, win. All the UK fans couldn't understand why I was there supporting Barrera.
Training in the closed gym, Barrera in one ring, me in the other, and me getting a hug.
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Personal experience?
Barrera - Naz, win. All the UK fans couldn't understand why I was there supporting Barrera.
Training in the closed gym, Barrera in one ring, me in the other, and me getting a hug.
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Tyson KO Berbick and we have a new era in boxing!
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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Lennox Lewis fighting Razor Ruddock. Big step up and Lennox smashed him.
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hatton-tszyu takes some beating. Nobody really gave the unbeaten hatton much of a chance as he was stepping in with someone 5times better than he`d been in with before. Head and heart both suggested ricky was perhaps gonna get stopped around 7-8 but he just took the fight to tszyu and that iconic moment at the end of the 11th will always be with me as i remember having goosebumps all over.
Also the night hopkins beat pavlik when again nobody gave him a chance. That moment at the end of the fight where hopkins just stood infront press row and gave that emotional look is something i will take to my grave with me!!
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Personally it has to be Haye v Maccarinelli. 50/50 fight at the time, one of the biggest British domestic fights in the past few years.
Fight that really got me into boxing was Calzaghe v Lacy, nobody gave Calzaghe a chance and he kicked ten shades of shiit out of Lacy.
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3 weird ones with a link
The "Fan Man," James Miller, landed during the 1993 heavyweight fight
between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield. When the lines of his paraglide
tangled, he hit the canvas, and one of his legs got caught in the top rope of the
ring. Fans dragged him down and gave him a beating. After his release from the
hospital, he was charged with dangerous flying and released on bail. As it turned
out, he was the only one who got knocked out, as Holyfield beat Bowe by a
majority descision.
In 1997, Oliver McCall suffered an emotional breakdown in his heavyweight
title fight with Lennox Lewis. This was altogether a chilling memory, but not
altogether unexpected.
Also in 1997, Mike Tyson was disqualified for twice biting Holyfield’s ears,
claiming he was retaliating because of head butting by Holyfield.
Now each of these incidents is a notable entry in my memory bank, but what
truly makes them memorable is that each was held in Las Vegas, each was for a
heavyweight title, and each was refereed by Mills Lane.![]()
“If you want loyalty, buy a dog.” Ricky Hatton
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Everybody expected a one on one fight. Which is why everybody picked Tszyu. He was past his prime. Coming off multiple surgery. And had been pretty inactive. But he was still clearly the better fighter. What nobody expected was the fight would be a handicap fight. Tszyu vs Ricky Hatton & Dave Paris. It was a shameful charade.
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There are a few that really stick out for me.
One of the first was watching TV in the middle of the night on my summer holidays when I was 10 years old and seeing an excellent American boxer fighting during the 96 Olympics. I'd been waiting for the football, but instead got caught up in this. The American appeared to win to the fans & commentators, only for the victory to be given to his Bulgarian opponent. I was annoyed and became a fan of the American, both because I thought he should have won & I thought he had a name like a cowboy, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
There was the Naz/Kevin Kelley fight and Naz dancing to Men In Black (my favourite song at 11), which always sticks with me. The images of the fight that I have come from having re-watched it later, but that one mental image of him dancing I stilll have from when I was 11.
Shane Mosley being announced the winner over Oscar in their first fight remains a favourite, as it marked out Shane as my favourite fighter until the PED use came out. I was watching a replay like a week later, but we didn't have internet then so I didn't have a clue what the result was.
The Mayweather/Hatton fight also has what is probably the most indelible moment to me, and that is the moment Hatton falls away from the punches and Mayweather turns to run up to the ringpost. This one moment probably sticks with me more than anything, and I'm not sure why. It's always my first thought when I think of KO's, boxing etc
Lastly, I've gotta agree with Hammer, the moment where Hopkins stood staring out into the crowd was one of my favourite sporting images of all time, it was spine-chlling & really sticks with me. There was another moment from that fight that did, and it was a point where Hopkins threw a bolo punch into Pavlik, who just stayed covered up & B-Hop made a face at him as if to say 'c'mon kid you've got to have SOMETHING'
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Thomas Hearns icing Roberto Duran .
Also Peter Manfredo's do or die effort against Calzaghe![]()
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Barrera Morales One probably just shades it.
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