Joel Casamayor was a lot of fun to watch. Probably one of the few dirty fighters I actually really like watching. He was almost dirty in a technical way, he was so good at it.All action fight. Love this one
What would yall recommend from this man? ^ Finito
(1st sparring session starts at 5.30 min or so, at around 38 min the 2nd session with different opponent starts)
Since there's no new boxing coming down the pipe for a bit, lets post some good fights that people may have missed or forgotten.Boxing, mma, K1 - whatever is cool.
War here-
How about Adamek vs Briggs
The Rosendo Alvarez fights.
Both crackers, and Aussies feature in both!
This is a random one I enjoyed which sort of features an Aussie as well, ref had a bit to do in this one
the Elbow Dre landed in this fight is a thing of beauty. Bika caught him with one earlier, and like I love, instead of making a huge fuss out of it, Ward just used his pent up anger to push Bika to the ropes and elbow the FUCK out of his skull when the ref was on the otherside. It was brutifal.
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Louis-Simon II
Joe Louis(52-1)
Abe Simon(36-9-1)
Abe Simon couldve been a UFC HW champ.
6'4 82in reach 260lbs and looked like a bear
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Funny thing is he was a pretty intelligent guy despite looking like a movie villain (due to acromegaly). According to him, his sense of pain was dulled, so it was easy for him to take ridiculous punishment (which you can see in the Louis fights where he gets hit by every punch in the book). Nobody even bothered to teach him the basics, he just got by, being a big, tough S.O.B, who needed to feed a family.
He put up a great case to protect boxers from CTE, a long, long time ago: