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*** Classic Fights Thread ***

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    #32
    tryingmybestt
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    Chavez v Taylor 1
    Trinidad v Vargas
    De La Hoya V Vargas
    Foreman V Lyle
    Benn v McClellan
    Arguello v Olivares
    Duran v Barkley


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    #33
    LordSutch
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    Larry Holmes V Kenny Norton 1978'



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    #34
    walshb
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    Not sure if many have seen Toney-McCallum 1. If not, then see it. Nothing major exciting, but technically it's pure class. Plenty of action, but very subtle and skilled action, as opposed to your all out wars.


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    #35
    megadodge
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    I just love this fight!!

    Maybe Rocky wasn't that far-fetched.

    Jorge Castro v John David Jackson

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMPwPVmUPPE


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    #36
    plasmaguy
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    It's probably been posted already, but this one rates up there. Insane fight.

    Foreman v Lyle 1976

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzlHZH8A0M&feature=related


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    keane=cock
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    morales and maidana was a cracker i thought


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    #38
    walshb
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    keane=cock wrote: »
    morales and maidana was a cracker i thought

    I agree, absolute bruiser. I love fights where you can see clean connections.

    Hate them fights with certain boxers who seem to clip, miss and hit mostly arms and elbows. A Steve Collins fight, for example.


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    #39
    plasmaguy
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    Maybe not a classic fight, but demonstrates the power of Earnie Shavers.

    It was said that George Foreman did his best to avoid Shavers in his career, he even admitted as much in interviews in later years.

    About 2.20 into the video when he floors Holmes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6qQ50SpPw

    To be a world champ in those days, you had to be tough as nails, even Ali took some punishment.


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