Fights where the Guy with a significant reach disadvantage wins?

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Would like to see some how they did it. Prefer fights with the same stance so not like pacman vs margarito.
 
Dwight muhammed Qawi is your friend his fights with Holyfield, muhammed 1 and 2 are tons fun to watch and Qawi si significantly shorter than both guys. On top of that Qawi's fight with the lesser Spinks brother is a pretty embarrassing beatdown for a guy who is was so much bigger than Qawi.
 
Pretty much every Marciano fight? ;)

Qawi actually had decent reach, thought. Short in stature but long arms. Must have been a fucking nightmare to square off against.
 
zapataxiv said:
Dwight muhammed Qawi is your friend his fights with Holyfield, muhammed 1 and 2 are tons fun to watch and Qawi si significantly shorter than both guys. On top of that Qawi's fight with the lesser Spinks brother is a pretty embarrassing beatdown for a guy who is was so much bigger than Qawi.
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Sir Punchalot said:
Pretty much every Marciano fight? ;)

Qawi actually had decent reach, thought. Short in stature but long arms. Must have been a fucking nightmare to square off against.
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Thanks a lot guys, will look into it.
 
Tyson vs almost all of his opponents.

Tyson vs Holmes is perfection
 
most of Celestino Caballero's opponents who beat him were at reach disadvantages
 
Sir Punchalot said:
Pretty much every Marciano fight? ;)

Qawi actually had decent reach, thought. Short in stature but long arms. Must have been a fucking nightmare to square off against.
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i was just thinking of Rocky when i came back and saw your post.

that being said Qawi was still smaller than most of the guys he fought i can't believe he fought big George (although it didn't go his way)
 
Jimmy Paul vs Alvin Hayes
 
zapataxiv said:
might as well put 1 & 2 in there they are both fantastic fights.
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I was about to, especially considering I thought Sergio won the first fight. But I didn't wanna derail the thread about records are the end all be all, and it was a draw.

In the same light, Lara vs Williams is also an example.
 
cottagecheesefan said:
I was about to, especially considering I thought Sergio won the first fight. But I didn't wanna derail the thread about records are the end all be all, and it was a draw.

In the same light, Lara vs Williams is also an example.
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I am with you on Martinez winning the first fight. I don’t think it is a total derail because irregardless of the official outcome Sergio had a lot of success in the fight so it would be relevant to somebody collecting footage of smaller reach guys being successful IMO
 
Joseph Parker has a significantly shorter reach than Dillian Whyte. Should be interesting to see how he overcomes it.

Gassiev vs Dorticos.
Frampton vs Santa Cruz

Also even though he ended up losing...Gamboa had a lot of success early on vs Crawford despite a big reach disparity.
 
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