50 THRILLING THREES
50 DENNIS ANDRIES vs JEFF HARDING III September 11, 1991
Round 11
THESE granite-tough light-heavyweights slugged it out for 31 rounds over three fights and this may have been the best of them, a round that left BBC commentator Harry Carpenter gasping: “Have you ever seen anything like it?” Harding won the rubber match on points and said afterwards: “The nearest thing to this was (Marvin) Hagler-(Thomas) Hearns.”
49 TED CHEESEMAN vs SAM EGGINGTON August 1, 2020
Round 12
BOTH were shaken up in a dramatic final minute. Moments after stiffening Cheeseman’s legs with a clean volley of shots, Eggington found himself being driven back into a corner. Eggington enjoyed the to-and-fro action as much as the fans, smiling as Cheeseman, who would prevail on points, fired punches at him.
48 MIKE TYSON vs FRANK BRUNO February 25, 1989
Round 1
THE bookmakers fancied an early finish and they so nearly got it. Down inside the opening 20 seconds, Bruno had a nation on its feet when he connected with a left hook later in the round that sent shivers down Tyson’s legs. He couldn’t find another punch like it and was mostly on the receiving end until the fifth-round finish.
47 JACK JOHNSON vs STANLEY KETCHEL October 16, 1910
Round 12
THE rumour was, heavyweight champion Johnson and middleweight boss Ketchel had agreed this fight would go the full 20 rounds. It didn’t turn out like that. Ketchel dropped Johnson in the 12th – and was made to pay, being laid out for a full 10 minutes by a right-hand piledriver.
46 ALFREDO ANGULO vs RICHARD GUTIERREZ May 17, 2008
Round 5
BADLY shaken by a left hook early in the round, Angulo hung on until his head cleared, started landing left-rights that had Gutierrez unsteady and then went for broke. Just when it seemed Gutierrez had survived the storm, Angulo started connecting cleanly again and the referee jumped in.
45 JAMES DEGALE vs BADOU JACK January 14, 2017
Round 12
THIS back-and-forth fight between elite super-middleweights looked to be up for grabs going into the last. DeGale was dropped, hung on and shook Jack with the last punch of a hard fight. It was called a draw.
44 JOE LOUIS vs TONY GALENTO June 28, 1939
Round 3
THE round when the short, fat and – so everyone thought beforehand – hopelessly outclassed Galento had the heavyweight champion of
