Bravest performance

Dick phelan

When you think of fights where guys have shown amazing bravery to stay in there or get up from a knockdown what fight do you think of, for me one in recent years would be Briggs against Klitschko, the guy took an almighty beating that night but still refused to quit, also Margarito V Pacman springs to mind

weemcd

Cotto in the first Marg. fight

FTA69

Both boxers in the Thrilla in Manilla.

Corrales against Castillo, absolute balls of steel.

allybhoy

Agree with most of the above, Also any of the Gatti\ Ward fights

I also remember watching a Danny Williams fight yrs ago where he dislocated his right shoulder and kept fighting with his left hand without a guard and won by knockout with his left.


Edit:- Found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY1jzjTjIhY

walshb

Barry in Vegas!

Big Ears

Everything named so far are terrific examples. Matthew Macklin vs Jamie Moore is an example that always comes to my mind when I think of a fighter who lost despite giving everything they had. There were points close to the end of that fight when Macklin's legs simply couldn't carry him, so his heart seemed to do it instead. He still relentlessly, and desperately kept lunging and swinging at Moore till the bitter end.

I was so excited for that fight at the time......boy did it deliver !

Johner

Malignaggi against Cotto was a brave effort I thought. Broken jaw in the second round.

megadodge

Denis Andries (London) defending his world light-heavy title against Thomas Hearns.
Andries was very strong but very crude and was down 5 times I think and getting hammered in every round, but just kept on coming before it was finally stopped in the 10th. After the fight Emmanuel Steward was so impressed by Andries bravery he offered to train him whereupon Andries upped and left to relocate in Detroit - correctly so, as he won the LH title two more times.

Jorge Castro v John David Jackson.
I'm always on about this one, as it never gets the recognition it should (probably cos the Yank lost). If you've never seen this fight, please do. Rocky movies seem waaaay over the top until you've seen this fight. Castro worked a miracle.

Henno30

Johner wrote: »

Malignaggi against Cotto was a brave effort I thought. Broken jaw in the second round.

Thought of that one as soon as I saw the title. Good clip here of Paulie describing the fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSty5VCZy5o

gene_tunney

Audley Harrison against David Haye.

David Haye against Nikolai Valuev

The Pheasant2

Wepner v Ali
Braddock v Baer

The Pheasant2

Wepner v Ali
Braddock v Baer

boxer.fan

Barrera vs Morales 1

walshb

boxer.fan wrote: »

Barrera vs Morales 1

I consider brave to be more in a fight where one man is that bit more in distress. This fight was neck and neck all the way.

gene_tunney

Gatti against Ward in the first fight. There are very few that would have gotten up from that body shot in round 9

walshb

gene_tunney wrote: »

Gatti against Ward in the first fight. There are very few that would have gotten up from that body shot in round 9

Yeh. I haven't seen such a painful reaction to a body shot. Maybe Oscar when he got tagged by Hopkins? There were several instances in the first Gatti-Ward fight were a stoppage in favor of Ward would not have been disputed. He was so close to getting it.

boxer.fan

walshb wrote: »

I consider brave to be more in a fight where one man is that bit more in distress. This fight was neck and neck all the way.

Neck & Neck it certainly was. I would consider bravery similarly to yourself, however these guys really went at it, both took a lot of damage & had to dig deep in order to carry on. Surely a bit of bravery in both of them

walshb

boxer.fan wrote: »

Neck & Neck it certainly was. I would consider bravery similarly to yourself, however these guys really went at it, both took a lot of damage & had to dig deep in order to carry on. Surely a bit of bravery in both of them

Yes, indeed. But one could apply that to any boxer in a ding dong competitive match. It's the examples where one man is suffering that bit more, maybe injured, taking a bit of a beating, and he's fighting his heart out to stay alive.

Barry in the closing stages in Vegas is for me the best example. An Irishman from a cold and wet climate taking on a Texan in a desert over 15 rds. His display in that ring was the bravest and most courageous sporting moment I have ever witnessed!

Dick phelan

Yeah Dunne showed balls of steel that night, he had his critics but his heart can never be questioned, Diaz was very brave against Pacquiao took a pounding but kept coming, Marquez against Pacquiao 1 to come of the floor 3 times in the first round and come back and get a draw showed serious courage.

Littlehorny

Chris Eubank put in a serious display of courage when he challenged Carl Thompson for a cruiserweight title years ago, he was way past his best at the time, was coming up 2 weights divisions and took on a tank of a man in Thompson. Some of the abuse he took is a testament to how tough he truly was, don't know if the crowd were pro or anti Eubank before the fight but even though he lost he was giving a standing ovation after the fight.

T-K-O

Burn V Beltran

gaybeer

Khan Vs Maidana

Kev M

I know he has his critics and people were happy to see him lose, but more recently Broner put in a BRAVE performance against Maidana. He was hurt several times, bullied, and took an absolute beating, but never quit and still tried to fight right til the end, against a much physically stronger opponent, landing some good shots towards the end.. If you could get over his out of ring antics, it was some real warrior stuff!

T-K-O

Kev M wrote: »

I know he has his critics and people were happy to see him lose, but more recently Broner put in a BRAVE performance against Maidana. He was hurt several times, bullied, and took an absolute beating, but never quit and still tried to fight right til the end, against a much physically stronger opponent, landing some good shots towards the end.. If you could get over his out of ring antics, it was some real warrior stuff!

I was almost convened until that.. it was decent, hardly warrior-esque

Johner

I'd go with stupid over brave for that performance from Broner.

T-K-O

Johner wrote: »

I'd go with stupid over brave for that performance from Broner.

I got the impression as strange as this may sound, he was too embarrassed to quit and too 'stupid' (ring IQ) to change the fight.

Kev M

Johner wrote: »

I'd go with stupid over brave for that performance from Broner.

There's often a thin line between bravery and stupidity!

Talib Fiasco

Bradely-Provodnikov was incredible stuff from both but more so from Bradley...he took an absolute battering...another minute more and he probably would have been KO'd.

megadodge

Just remembered Arthur Abraham's defense against the then-undefeated and very dangerous Edison Miranda. Abraham's jaw was badly broken in two places and his face horribly disfigured from the fourth round, but his corner, doctor and ref somehow let him go on. He won on points (helped by a number of fouls from Miranda) and I really can't imagine the pain he was going through for eight rounds.

gene_tunney

Paul Briggs against Danny Green

royster999

Riddick Bowe in both his fights against Golota

coronaextra

Probably quite a long list, but one that stands out for me is Diego Corrales V Jose Luis Castillo back in 2005....

A young Chavez Jr. (in a blue shirt) with his father can be seen ring side 4.57
Famous round 10 starts at 10.02

Fascinating finish, Corrales the cute fox, spits out the gum-shield after each knock down, buying invaluable seconds to clear his head. If you look closely after knockdown NO.2 Castillo gestures to the crowd, he thought it was over.

Castillo was no alter boy either, he dropped a few low shots straight after he was hurt by Corrales during the fight.

Never get tired watching that video! hard to believe its nearly a decade ago!

gerrybbadd

Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko for me. Vitali's face was a mess, he got destroyed, but kept going.

Henno30

Morales' performance against Maidana was pretty epic. Fought with one eye for eleven rounds too.

Johnnythefox4

Apollo Creed vs Ivan Drago

Creed died in the ring that night. What makes it even more amazing was that it was only supposed to be an exhibition for feck's sake

megadodge

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko for me. Vitali's face was a mess, he got destroyed, but kept going.

Destroyed? He was winning the fight on all 3 judges cards at the time of the stoppage!

walshb

Probably means destroyed as regards the injury!