Jack Dempsey then Arturo Gatti and Smokin Joe.
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I loved it! I occasionally watch it on YouTube
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Nayoa Inoue.
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Hawk time!!!
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My favorite too. I have family from the same town. When I was a kid, my father came home from work one day and asked me if I wanted to watch boxing with him because a local kid was going to be on TV and his whole city had been talking about this kid. This was Haglar and it was his first televised fight. I watched it was a fan from that day on. I think I watched every one of his fights with my father too. Even PPV because we had a couple of black boxes.
king of amazing he and Marciano are from the same town. itās a city but it was like a town back then.
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Irish Micky Ward
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OK, I love Hagler too, but you guys know SRL beat him, right? Thatās a fact, Jack.
Didnt Ray admit to throwing worthless shoeshine combo punches at the end of the rounds to get points from the judges?
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I believe youāre correct
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Dunno, and donāt care. He clearly won that fight. I know opinions differ, thatās just mine. And I am a HUGE Hagler fan and so wanted him to win that fight. But he didnāt by any rationale judging.
Super under appreciated all time great. Just a tough gritty fighter who was good everywhere, relentless, throwing 100 punches a round. Never got one of the super fights of that era (heās partly to blame)besides the 2 Alexis fights which were both excellent fights. Fantasy match would be him vs Mayweather.
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Iām at a certain age where I might be biased but itās Tyson. He hit so hard and fast it was scary. Hereās the vid
https://youtu.be/EsJxE7Zg6Yc?si=Xxlpl91FICOwYYyb&t=2m54s
Heās the only boxer that my parents threw a watch party for.
Yup, the 91 second one.
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So even as a boxing fan, I was way behind on brit fighters. Lately youtube and I have been pals and holy shit the fighters and all the crazy stories just between brits and euros in the last 40 yrs is astonishing.
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if the scorecards are the only measure of āwinningā than yes he did. The biggest thing that SRL won was getting Haglar to agree to a bunch of terms that favored SRL and not himself. That and $ is what Haglar lost.
He won everything else and would have trashed that prancing fag otherwise.
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Ha! SRL also had the āmeasureā of winning by landing more punches, including more power punches, and at a higher percentage. Oh, including having Hagler follow him around the ring like a dum dum (instead of cutting off the ring for the vast majority of the fight), getting tagged over and over again. A somewhat close but clear SRL victory according to any objective measure (and by objective measure Iām leaving out: āLook how much more tired SRL was than Hagler after the fight!ā - āIf Hagler didnāt agree to a 12 round fight and it went 15 rounds Hagler definitively would have won!ā - āIf it was a 15 round fight Hagler would have literally killed him!ā - 'If they fought to the death you know Hagler would have won!" - and (my favorite, one you are familiar with it seems) - if Hagler didnāt agree to Rayās terms for the fight he would have won for sure!!!).
I have not.
But I do have an Amazon credit just waiting to be spent lol.
Might as well!
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I think itās a common free PDF too
I read his book when I was first learning how to punch and itās been hugely beneficial.
I still use it
When Iām teaching anyone boxing I use some of the exercises from it to show how power works.
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This is the one I was referring to.
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