Great Lesser Known Fights

megadodge

Just came across this fight and thought why not start a thread on great lesser known fights.

This war is Akira Yaegashi vs Pornsawan Porpramook - a classy punch picking Japanese v a psychotically aggressive Thai. It starts normal enough, but gets progressively more and more violent, with a certain round very similar to Gatti/Ward round 9.

Anyway, enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbY4mz7Eqg

megadodge

Mahyar Monshipour v Somsak Sithchatchawal

This fight has quite a few fans here amongst the old posters, so for the younger heads - Bombs away!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJQcRQch2U

Big Ears

megadodge wrote: »

Mahyar Monshipour v Somsak Sithchatchawal

This fight has quite a few fans here amongst the old posters, so for the younger heads - Bombs away!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJQcRQch2U

I saw your thread title and went to post this, then saw your 2nd post.......you bastard

Yaegashi is very good to watch, a real shame that the lighter weight guys don't get the respect they deserve in the western World, he should be a household name across boxing fans. Instead only the hardcore know who he is.

megadodge

Big Ears wrote: »

I saw your thread title and went to post this, then saw your 2nd post.......you bastard

Yaegashi is very good to watch, a real shame that the lighter weight guys don't get the respect they deserve in the western World, he should be a household name across boxing fans. Instead only the hardcore know who he is.

I was actually thinking of you when I posted it. I know you always loved this fight and rated it higher than Morales/Barrera !.

megadodge

Chisanda Mutti v Lee Roy Murphy

Little known cruiser world title fight from 1985, probably because it took place in France. The finish became famous, but it's an excellent fight that gets progressively more brutal the later it goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYLwwrddwII&t=2s

walshb

Not sure how lesser known this is, but rewatched an old 90s classic the other night, almost 30 years since it happened.

Their first fight: Junior Fly title fight between Michael Carbajal and Humberto Gonzalez fom 1993. A 7 round classic. Real belter..

squinn2912

Not a lesser known fight but I watched Duran Leonard 1 in entirety for the first time yesterday. Brilliant fight!! I had Duran slightly. Very close. Two boys could take some hits

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118376908#Comment_118376908

Really? That’s mad!!

walshb

Duran-Leonard was a great fight. Very very competitive, but Duran a clear winner for me..clear in the sense that he controlled the flow more..

squinn2912

I dunno. I never liked Leonard for the cockiness but after three rounds I think he had the best of it. He stood toe to toe and took all that was coming. Last z3 rounds all

him. If anyone said he shaded it I’d not argue. Duran by a whisker for me

megadodge

I love the Duran / Leonard 1 fight.

Great action between two genuine legends.

Although every second of it was competitive, I can't see how it could be marked for Leonard. Duran built up the lead which allowed him to cruise a little in the last few rounds, but he definitely won it.

megadodge

Carl Thompson v Ezra Sellers.

Two big punchers with iffy chins.

Thompson was never in a bad fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3b93xEMqnw&t=930s

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118388458#Comment_118388458

Great fight that. Two boys could really bang.

Watched the Nelson fight as well. Something to get me through isolation! Very bad stoppage imo. And, those Sheffield boys are hard to suffer

squinn2912

Just tuning into George Foreman vs Ron Lyle. Not sure if it qualifies for lesser known either but it was some fight.

walshb

Lyle/Foreman probably one best-known wars for boxing fans.

For very casual fans it would be lesser known great.

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118397862#Comment_118397862

Good enough. Any more suggestions?

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118397955#Comment_118397955

There are many…

Holyfield/Qawi 1 is a fight to watch. Really good..A young Holyfield. 1986 FOTY

A domestic one I love is Carl Johanneson vs. Kevin Mitchell 130 lbs, 2008. Absolute belter.

I also loved DeGale v Groves!!

squinn2912

Must take a look at Holyfield. Mitchell was in some real wars, had great heart an agonising nearly man.

Groves de Gale was a great fight. I thought the judges got it wrong I had de Gale by a whisker. I suppose at the time it might have been lesser known.

megadodge

Big fight back in the day, but often forgotten now.

Typical Mexico / Puerto Rico battle.

Wilfredo Gomez v Lupe Pintor. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljQEI4wMHhk

megadodge

Great heavyweight war between two fringe contenders.

Derrick Jefferson v Maurice Harris. Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ1qWySmzqE&t=355s

walshb

Basa/McCauley counts!

What a fight!

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118400989#Comment_118400989

Great fight that! I’ve seen the KO before but never the whole fight. Incredible action! The referee was great value as well!

squinn2912

This is one that everyone will know but easily forgotten too and a very absorbing contest; Chris Byrd and Ike Ibeabuchi

https://youtu.be/z2RJ2Ogb8n0

megadodge

This is a cracker that often gets forgotten - Ricardo Torres v Miguel Cotto. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-5jjECu48&t=55s

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118372054#Comment_118372054

https://youtu.be/ZuGZVkYuHM4

The commentary is better than the fight

The bravery of Leonard .Heart of a lion

walshb

Save starting new thread

picked up The Ring 100 magazine edition today. A special. Any fight fans this is a must. Looks savage.

The Ring 100 years anniversary edition..

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118591631#Comment_118591631

Anywhere online to pick this up and posted at a non-ugly price? Struggling to find on a European Store. Shipping from Ring website if €8 (so €20 total for the mag)

Charlie69

Dennis Andries v Jeff Harding trilogy... I was at the 3rd fight which Harding won by a close decision ... Absolutely brutal.

megadodge

Not necessarily a great fight, but a great performance by Kostya Tsyzu v Vernon Forrest in the 1991 World Amateur Final.

BBC had shown a few of Tsyzu's fights before this and I became a big fan. He won the best boxer award and had won the same in the previous two Europeans.

He was a serious amateur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HbhMCga5U

DaithiMa

Alex Arthur vs Michael Gomez for British Title. Arthur 16-0 the golden boy on his way to the top, Gomez (real name Armstrong) from a travelling background 28-5. A cracker of a fight. It starts around 15 mins into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHG6FFGvOcs

megadodge

This is an absolute belter that often gets forgotten until somebody mentions it, then, anybody who saw it live will wax lyrical about it.

Non-stop action and a rather unique and classy finish.

Michael Ayers v Wayne Rigby 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdN5mqGL9E

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118971916#Comment_118971916

I remember watching this one live with 3 mates ,Hard to believe it was nearly 20 years ago now,

Gomez lived up in Ballymun for a time as a kid , he had a really rough life growing up ,

He was born in the back of his Dad's car after this Da crashed on the way to hospital , you couldn't make it up

evolvingtipperary101

This is a great fight. Absolute war - life on the line stuff.

Wayne McCullough vs Jose Luis Bueno on Vimeo

McCullough v Morales is another great fight. McCullough was in a lot of great fights. Must have had one of the best chins ever in boxing.

megadodge

Thanks for that.

I actually attended that fight, but never watched it on screen since.

My abiding memory was that it was a real tough, gruelling fight that Wayne did just enough to win.

I don't think there were any, but I'd love to have seen the punchstats for that fight. Both of them never stopped throwing the whole night.

megadodge

Just thought of this cracker a few days ago. I saw it on International Fight Night on UTV back in the mid 1980s. It features the best knockdown I ever saw. EVER!! God only knows how the floored boxer got up, but he did, and quite quickly, but his jaw was broken and he was retired in the corner.

Loris Stecca (Italy) was a high quality boxer with an impressive record who won the super-bantam title but lost it in Puerto Rico to local man Victor Callejas. Stecca won five fights by KO and there was a rematch in Italy in front of a very passionate crowd. This is what happened.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLZFcOJO2hE

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQmVMI-sAJM

Brock Turnpike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118519347#Comment_118519347

Thanks for posting this. What a fight.

megadodge

Watched this again recently. Fight of the Year 1995.

Mexican icon Humberto 'Chiquita' Gonzalez v Thai challenger Saman Sorjaturong for the undisputed world title.

Two aggressive big-punchers go at it. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgPg55ZGn6c

megadodge

Wildly exciting Mexican cult hero Jorge Arce was in loads of entertaining scraps and this was one of the best.

His opponent was tough, well-schooled Aussie Hussein Hussein and they produced a cracker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_DEnxlg-Y

megadodge

This was only back in 2020, but it didn't really get the exposure you'd expect as it was during lockdown.

If there was a crowd they would have gone mental.

Jose Zepeda v Ivan Baranchyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbE2n0cSAUw

megadodge

Only discovered this barnburner recently when I heard about the death of former bantam champ Richie Sandoval. I read about his brother Alberto and there was a mention of his war with Alfonso Zamora. Zamora was one half of the famous Mexican bantam world unification 'Battle of the Z men" with Carols Zarate. Going into that fight they had a combined record of (wait for it) 74-0 with 73 KOs!!! Shock horror, it didn't go the distance.

Alberto Sandoval had just one loss in 29 by cuts, was classy, tough and could punch. Zamora was extremely dangerous early, but was deemed to have stamina issues due to inconsistent training habits. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QhI-3zq8ds

blade1

Spencer Oliver vs Patrick Mullings. Remember watching this at the time and loving it

https://youtu.be/pvDQVYv1kgI?si=4VYjvO14ukKpEcZW