It’s a timeless Christmas classic, a tune sung for centuries this time of year, but now “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” has a special bellicose and pugilistic version, courtesy of your friends at The Fight City. It’s sure to delight even the most discerning fans of furious fisticuffs and add a bit of carnage to your Christmas Day. So check it out! And you are welcome!!!
1. On the first day of Christmas, your true love presents the best first round of all time in the long history of fisticuffs, those three wild, chaotic and exciting minutes that surprised a huge crowd of about eighty thousand people at the Polo Grounds in New York. in 1923. With no less than nine takedowns and non-stop heavy artillery, the first round of Dempsey vs Firpo is the gift that keeps on giving!
2. On The Second Day of Christmas we showed you nothing but love with Terry Norris’ second round match against Troy Waters in 1993, “Terrible” Terry’s ninth world title defense. The second round of this brief but torrid encounter is an absolutely wild three minutes of non-stop combat with both men shaking and shaking more than once before their end.
3. On The Third Day of Christmas, we couldn’t do better than bring you the gift-wrapped bonanza of frenetic action that is the third round of the second Donnybrook between Israel Vázquez and Rafael Márquez. While the entire fight is a glorious, action-packed fight, its third round is the peak: three minutes of non-stop, high-intensity throwing and catching.
4. On the fourth day of Christmas, your true love gives you the climax of an absolutely crazy heavyweight fight, the fourth and penultimate round of the legendary clash between George Foreman and Ron Lyle in Las Vegas in 1976. Three knockdowns and the three times. It seems as if the fight should end, but instead, both warriors continue to rise to exchange more ferocious power blows.
5. On the fifth day of Christmas we do not bring you five gold rings, but the fifth round of the first big battle between Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera in February 2000, the best round of action in a big action fight of all the times. and that year’s Round of the Year.
6. On the sixth day of Christmas, it’s time for round six of the wonderful Marvin Hagler’s grueling war against John Mugabi in 1985. The relatively inexperienced Mugabi proved he could hold his own against the great Hagler while enduring tremendous punishment, only to resist . Ground him and fire back in one of the great rounds of head-to-head action of the 1980s.
7. On the seventh day of Christmas there are no swans swimming, but three minutes of intense fireworks with fists from a great donnybrook of all time, Roberto Durán vs Iran Barkley in 1989. The legendary “Hands of Stone” could feel that the fight was slipping away towards his older, younger opponent, so in the seventh round he faced off and went toe-to-toe with “The Blade,” both men throwing and catching in a great round of a truly extraordinary fight.
8. In The Eighth Day of Christmas we go back to 1980 and the second war between light heavyweight gladiators Matthew Saad Muhammad and Yaqui López. In the eighth round of this action-packed clash, Lopez badly hurt the champion and then unleashed a punishing barrage of hell, only to see “Miracle Matthew” ignore him and come roaring back. The turning point of a great battle of all time.
9. In The Ninth Day of Christmas it can only be the ninth round of the first Gatti vs Ward fight, a round that has achieved truly legendary status. And for good reason.
10. On the 10th day of Christmas, your true love doesn’t believe in sacrificing thrills, spills, and legendary action to surprise you. If the ninth day had to be Gatti vs Ward I, then the tenth must of course be Corrales vs Castillo I, tenth round, an unforgettable ending to a battle that many consider the greatest fight of the 21st century.
11. On the eleventh day of Christmas you are a very lucky fight fan as your true love grants you nothing but one of the most intense rounds of a great fight of all time, round eleven of the first epic confrontation between Roberto Durán. and Sugar Ray Leonard in June 1980, the famous “Brawl In Montreal”. Three minutes of pure physical greatness.
12. And On the Twelfth Day of Christmas is the thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat like the final round between Sergio Martínez and Julio César Chávez Jr. at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas in 2012. Far ahead in points , The lineal champion found himself on the canvas and then fought furiously to survive as time ticked down and the much larger and heavier Chavez Jr. came within a stroke or two of scoring what would have been a monumental come-from-behind victory. Without a doubt, one of the most exciting final rounds in recent boxing history. Merry Christmas, fellow wrestling fans!