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[Anomalocaris]

Kaylor Christie was a great domestic UK dustup in '85.

Especially due to the unsavoury buildup.

[Anomalocaris]

- - Ghana one of the oldest historical boxing areas in the world. They fight with leather thongs wrapped around their fists.

Nelson had some of the best training to be had when he faced Sanchez, obviously as the toe to toe nature of the bout turned out.

But still he had only fought 13 times before he met Sanchez.

[JAB5239]

But still he had only fought 13 times before he met Sanchez.

Queenie equate what the people of Ghana traditionally did to boxing. What they did previously was basically a bare knuckle fist fight. Different rules, different circumstances. Ghana has produced 8 world champions in the modern era.

[GhostofDempsey]

Pacquiao vs Morales, Margarito, Barerra, Marquez I, Thurman

Hagler/Hearns

Holmes/Norton

Ward/Gatti trilogy

Ray Mercer vs Bert Cooper

Toney vs Jirov

Duran vs Barkley

Toney vs Barkley

Oscar vs Fernando Vargas

Lomachenko vs Linares, Walters and Rigo

Vasquez vs Marquez all of them

Mayorga vs Forrest I

Tapia vs Romero

[JAB5239]

Pacquiao vs Morales, Margarito, Barerra, Marquez I, Thurman

Hagler/Hearns

Holmes/Norton

Ward/Gatti trilogy

Ray Mercer vs Bert Cooper

Toney vs Jirov

Duran vs Barkley

Toney vs Barkley

Oscar vs Fernando Vargas

Lomachenko vs Linares, Walters and Rigo

Vasquez vs Marquez all of them

Mayorga vs Forrest I

Tapia vs Romero

Great list...Vasquez-Marquez seems to be so underrated to me.. it should show up more on great fights to watch lists.

[Marchegiano]

Maidana Broner

Victor Ortiz vs Josesito Lopez

Wlad always gets biz for being boring but Pulev and Laepai were entertaining. They both fought for as long as they could manage. Maybe too one sided.

Micky Ward vs. Emanuel Augustus

Spinks Qawi


That's a good five or six imo.

[Marchegiano]

Queenie equate what the people of Ghana traditionally did to boxing. What they did previously was basically a bare knuckle fist fight. Different rules, different circumstances. Ghana has produced 8 world champions in the modern era.

Depends where in history!

You had to have seen it before. If I give credit to Greece folks cry about Egypt or Sumer or where ever else they found older art that depicts punching and do not care that those versions of "boxing" did not lead to modern boxing.

Egypt doesn't have champions because boxing for them is a WWE like show and the winner is always pharaoh, but it's still boxing doe, so says some folks


So, it's a bit eye of the beholder isn't it? And Semantics.


I think Dambe or whatever is just as fair as any other outside "boxing" sport like Muay Thai but imo only boxing is boxing. Greeks, Brits, Americans, the world. Everyone else is just face punching.




Because where did stuff like no S E X before a fight come from? Egypt? Sumer? Ghana? Nigeria? Nah, a bro called Klietomachos only went and won the pancratium, boxing, and wrestling to become a "Heavy Champion", and when asked what his secrete was he said he avoided *** at all costs and refused to even be witness. Folks made fun of him during training for refusing to watch stray dogs mate.

All the way until the modern era young men have abstained from *** to perform in sports with 0 science 0 nutrition 0 real evidence and with the source story lost to most they don't even know why they do it! They just do it because athlete handed ideas to athlete for 3 thousand years ... this is boxing!

Muay Thai can have the same techniques, it just means men discovered what works independently around the planet. The system that we use was handed to us from the brits who learned it from the italians who got it from the romans who found the greeks that started it all. To me it is beautiful. Common man's history going back 3k years supported by NOTHING but other common men. Woof brah. 3k years men have taught men how to fight to make money and not be in poverty. That is boxing! That is gorgeous! That's the spirit of all our kin.

Out of interest, Klieto is Roman not Greek.