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Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 30, 2012, 10:08 pm
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[center] Arturo "Thunder" Gatti v "Irish" Micky Ward I (May 18,
2002)
Part 1
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 30, 2012, 10:17 pm
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[center]Arturo "Thunder" Gatti Vs. "Irish" Micky Ward I
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Having just watched The Fighter
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/>I wanted to revisit some of Micky Ward's greatest fights and
what better than to go back to THE GREATEST FIGHT of ALL TIME!
This isn't hyperbole here that I'm saying. When I say this is
the Greatest, I mean it is the best fight I have ever seen and I
have seen thousands of fights so I know what I am talking about.
This is the most amazing, balls to the walls boxing, slug fest
you will ever witness. Warriors!!
I don't want to say check out this round or that round because
if you have never seen this fight or even know who wins, to tell
you anything about the fight would ruin it for you. They say
there are 1001 things to do before you die. This is THE fight
that you owe it to yourself to watch. Simply put, it's a live
action version of a Video Game Fight. Unreal. UNREAL!!!!!
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 30, 2012, 10:20 pm
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Watching it again from the start. I'm so pumped after watching
this that I need another hit. Pun intended.
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 30, 2012, 10:34 pm
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[center]Micky Ward vs Arturo Gatti II
Part 1
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Part 2
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 30, 2012, 10:35 pm
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Now watching the Rematch of their Epic showdown.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 1, 2012, 12:29 am
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[center]Micky Ward vs Arturo Gatti II
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Jim Lampley said it best after the fight...."a worthy sequel".
And that's just what we got here. Although the fight didn't
reach the epic proportions of the first fight, there were still
some unbelievable moments throughout the Rematch where the fight
could have easily gone the other way. These two cats are the
definition of what a warrior is. The right fighter won this
fight for sure.
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 1, 2012, 12:38 am
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[center]Arturo Gatti Vs. Micky Ward III
Part 1
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Part 2
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 1, 2012, 1:51 am
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[center]Arturo Gatti Vs. Micky Ward III
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Unbelievable. I've never seen two fighters throw that many
punches and land as many over 3 fights totalling 30 rounds. It's
unheard of. The third and final fight in their Trilogy did not
disappoint. Just.....WOW!! This didn't equal the first fight,
but it was definitely a step up from the last one for sure.
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Mac Date: July 1, 2012, 11:59 am
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I use to really enjoy boxing. One of my personal greatest
conundrums. I can't stand violence and the idea of watching two
humans go at each other with the intent of inflicting as much
pain as possible and hopefully a knockout, is rather hard for me
to reconcile.
But I did get into the big fights. The good fights. I couldn't
stand the heavy weights where all they did was throw a punch or
two.
After the fall with Tyson, I've viewed Boxing so differently
today. I was never hip with the secretive judging aspect of the
sport. Making the sport suspect just takes the fun out of it. I
have not watched boxing in years. Most likely what I've
mentioned but more so, I don't know anybody around me that gets
into it either.
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Re: Boxing's Greatest and Most Controversial Matches
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 1, 2012, 12:10 pm
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Boxing is dead and has been since Holyfield Vs. Tyson II. Ever
since that ear biting debacle, there really hasn't been a
Heavyweight fight of merit. By the time Tyson Vs. Lewis rolled
around, nobody cared anymore. I did try to get into Vitali &
Wladimir Klitschko as possible contenders that could rejuvenate
the division. But with the amount of s h i t t y fights they
were setting up (i.e. handpicked fights that were guaranteed
winners), I bailed on them and Boxing once and for all.
I moved onto MMA / UFC and for awhile it was refreshing. It was
different. And then....I bailed on that too. I think because
there is too much turnover with the "Championship" belt that
there is no history and will never be any history. The belt
changes from fight to fight so they can't really groom someone
to be the "face" of the sport like a Tyson, Holyfield or Ali
were. What does it say about the sport when Tito Ortez is the
face of MMA and he has a pretty weak overall record and hasn't
done s h i t in years? I may watch an MMA fight here and
there, although its been probably a year or more since I last
watched one, I will never feel about MMA the way I did and still
do about Boxing.
That brings me to this thread. The reason why I started this
thread is that I recently gotten back into Boxing. Not in it's
current state, but a nostalgic remembrance of some of the
greatest fights I've ever witness. And since there are believe
it or not a handful of fights I haven't seen and have forgotten
the outcome of, I will have a nice bag of fights to revisit.
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