Unleashing the Beast: Nigel Benn vs Iran Barkley
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Nigel Benn and Iran Barkley, two of the most talented and fierce boxers of their time, faced off in a thrilling match that left fans on the edge of their seats. The fight, which took place on March 20, 1993, showcased the raw power and skill of both fighters as they traded blows in a battle for supremacy.
The fight between Benn and Barkley is still remembered today as one of the greatest boxing matches of all time, a testament to the skill, courage, and determination of both fighters.
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The viciousness of Benns punches are hard to match… a truly golden era
He was on roids all his career.
@@jamespalmer980 🤦♂️🤡😂
@@jamespalmer980 most were likely on some sort of enhancement protocol in those days - some were more blatant than others.
@@jamespalmer980 Who wasn't?
First punch of the fight boom
Benn was a vicious beast of a fighter ,he'd fight anyone anywhere ,anytime ...glory days of British boxing
Was also on roids, a danger in the ring.
If you ever meet him ,by all means tell him lol
We've not seen the likes of him since, that's for sure. Frankly, the greatest, value for money boxer in British history.
You forget Eubank
@@chrisbaxter3597 A bold statement I know Chris, but we have to choose and I remember that extra special buzz when Nige entered the ring.
You don’t have a clue , loads better including Watson you mug
How do you say f..k Eubank
We were spoiled with Benn, Eubank and Watson at that time.
My favourite fighter of all time. When he spoke I was literally in a trance. A Fighter in the truest sense of the word.
I met Nigel once, you can't believe what a lovely gentle man he is outside of the ring.
That was a right royal tear up! Like many of Benn's fights. He is the most exciting fighter in British history.
And it was wicked to see someone to go out there for war
@@seancottis3369 He was an ex-soldier
Benn is a legend one of the greatest of all time! And one of the finest from our shores, also a former British soldier tough as nails!
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Definitely
@@grrr.9998 Dont hate.
Nigel was the modern day raging Bull. I remember this fight, and it was a total frenzy - no prisoners. Always mayhem with Benn
Eubanks tamed Benn...
It was lovely to see a man giving his all proud of Ben wicked fighter when he lost to Chris that broke his heart it proved to me how much the game means to that soldier
@@jasonking1284 no Chris got under Benn skin and won on the mind games in the first fight but the second fight Benn pissed it did not make any mistakes got one point taken away from a low blow even Lennox Lewis said at ringside there was no way that was a draw the dark destroyer won the fight
Benn was the man
Benn was the man
Three boxers I would always watch, Benn Tyson and Hearns. Just unmatched excitement potential.
The good ol’ days
Bang on pal
Roy Jones jr would have destroyed benn
@@tyomzmma3249 Roy Jonesjr didnt want the Benn fight when he was offered.Didnt want the risk of losing to a limey was all i could see.
Nigel Benn is my all-time favourite fighter, and this fight shows why.
He'd fight anyone as well, I remember in a post fight interview he said he wanted to fight Roy Jones cos he scared him lol.
Days when fighters actually fought each other and not cherry picked their defences.
Benn's fights were like something from a Rocky movie. He had the heart of a lion with devastating power to match. My favourite ever boxer!!
Benn is the greatest British middleweight of all time in my opinion ❤
@@user-uw9wr3mv1y Agree mate
What a stylish boxer Benn was...raging, powerful and brave.
He was a brilliant fighter, absolutely my favourite, but a stylish boxer? No, he was never that.
Like a wounded tiger, when hurt he'd go for the ko even more.
My favourite boxer.He never wanted to move up to super middleweight but that’s where the money was.He was so quick and powerful as a middleweight.
Benn will always be my favourite boxer for the sheers excitement of his fights. Anything could happen and he won a few from the jaws of defeat.
That era truly was a golden age for boxing.
Wow! I'm so happy to have watched this at the time.. Nigel was fantastic, not Sugar Ray, but to beat him, you'd need fire power.. Nigel really bullied and took his opponents hearts, it was amazing! Thanks Nigel!
He would fight with all his hart and never give in
@@seancottis3369well not with Steve Collins....
Tony Montana said that
"his trademark right blow". That is some deep technical analysis there champ.
Surprising last bout, both boxers gave every last drop of energy, as always a great job and the best selection of boxing matches.
Benn was definitely a bit of class. He learnt from his defeats to Watson and Eubank. Although a brawler, he worked on his inside game. The zenith of this was against McClellan. I know the fight is complicated by speculation about exactly when the blood clot formed on McClellan’s brain (some say the blinking started after fighting Jackson!), but Benn’s slipping of bombs on the inside and replying with interest was amazing to watch. And McClellan’s knockout ratio was absurd. He almost got Benn in the first round!
He had Benn on toast in the first round until the point they both went to throw a bomb but Nigel's short backlift high speed delivery beat Gerald to the punch. Gerald looked out of it from that point on, he looked like he had concussion. There are 2 types of power, knockout power and concussive power and Gerald had the former Nigel the latter. Concussive power is more dangerous because you can be hit harder and not get knocked out, in fact while you stagger you feel more awake. Nigel Benn has the longest list of fighters that retired through brain injuries, 3 in the ring and many others later down the line like Michael Watson.
The ref saved Benn in the 1st round, McLellan was very dangerous fighter! It was an incredible brutal fight, the commentators were harsh on McClellan, not realising his problem
The ref absolutely saved benn in that fight !! And imo, Gman had damage goin into that bout. Benn and his rabbit punches certainly didn't help ! That ref was pathetic !!
Remember watching this fight, those were the days many great fighters fighting each other not like this era where most duck or cherry pick.
benn always came for a tear up!
Great times, great boxers and the fight really started NOW.!!! 🥊🥊🔥
Brilliant footage, how well Benn re-invented himself after the Michael Watson defeat, new trainers and an improvement in fitness and stamina yet retaining that vicious punching style. One of the very best British boxers was Nigel Benn hope I can meet him one day.
My favourite fighter of all time. The Dark Destroyer
In his day he was the man
Thanks for your work
The old days the golden days
Thanks for your support🥊
He was the best thing to come out of London watch him from day one the dark destroyer aka big Ben he didn't duck anyone pride of Britain wicked fighter the Wounded lion fighter that when he was at his best i remembered the commentary saying that on Saturday night fight night
Proper fighter no ifs or buts just fight but one thing he did what surprised me when he faced crisis for the second fight he fought the best fight in his career did not make a mistake one point got taken away for a low blow but he won every round i have watched that fight a 100 times ben pissed it
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@The World of Boxing! I'd love to see someone create a video looking at the real career of Juan Manuel Márquez? I understand Manny is extraordinary, and what he's achieved in boxing is incredible, nobody can tarnish that. But, If I’m being really honest? I'll never understand how anyone can seriously watch those four fights against Márquez and tell me Manny won any of them? He never beat Márquez.
Márquez beat Pac-Man in all four fights. Márquez, like Manny, is one of the greatest boxers we've seen, his record is outstanding, when you look at it with honesty, above all else. Márquez made his professional boxing debut at age 19, against Javier Durán. Márquez lost via disqualification in Round 1, due to a headbutt. Márquez had knocked Durán down twice before the clash of heads, (that was more damaging to Márquez than it was to Durán).
Márquez vs. Norwood, Márquez lost to Norwood via a highly controversial unanimous decision. Nobody had Norwood winning that fight.
Márquez vs. Pacquiao I, Márquez was knocked down three times in the 1st round by Manny. But Márquez then outboxed Pacquiao for the remainder of the bout, which ended in a highly controversial, split-decision draw. Márquez had so clearly won the fight. Just no doubt about it at all.
Márquez vs. Pacquiao II, Márquez lost his Super Featherweight title to Pacquiao via another highly controversial split decision loss. Márquez landed 42 of 201 (21%) jabs to Pacquiao's 43 of 314 (14%) and landed 130 of 310 (42%) power punches to Pacquiao's 114 of 305 (37%). It wasn't really even that close!! Again, Márquez had clearly won the fight
Márquez vs. Pacquiao III, Márquez lost to Pacquiao via a massively HUGE controversial majority decision. The decision was voted the “Robbery of the Year,” in 2011 by The Ring Magazine readers. It was shambolic, outright, in your face daylight robbery.
Márquez vs. Pacquiao IIII, Márquez made no mistakes, and he made damn sure no Judges could rob him this time, and he completely fooled Manny brilliantly, letting the Pac-Man step around him, but only into a tremendous power shot nobody saw coming and he brutally KO'd Manny with that outrageously good and disguised shot, putting Manny on his face and out cold.
Márquez vs. Bradley The fight went the distance, Márquez AGAIN lost by another highly controversial split decision loss. Márquez, whose always honest, said himself, after the Bradley fight: “I clearly won, I have been robbed six times in my career. You don't have to knock down the other guy to win the fight.”
Márquez 64 fights 56 wins 7 losses 1 draw 40 KOs. Should really read... Márquez 64 fights 62 wins 2 losses 0 draws 40 KO's. If anyone actually wants to disagree? Just go watch every fight Manny had against Márquez! Then disagree.
Loved this era. You wouldn't believe that Benn could be stopped but of course he was. A truly golden age. Great videos thanks.
He was dynamic and a great punch but not as good a chin as Eubank
Thanks for the epic rerun battle of wills and skills.
Woulda loved to see Benn v Tony Sibson. An instant classic BOOM!!
Sibson was well past it when Benn came along.
Thank you, awesome!!! 🥊🥊🥊👍
Loved to watch benn never a dull moment and a true nice guy
Our Nigel loved a tear up
The narration is world class.
I remember seeing Benn fight Anthony Logan, a tough Jamaican, at the Royal Albert Hall, back in 1988. Logan was Benn's most experienced opponent at that time, and wasn't intimidated. As was so often the case with Benn, it was fireworks from the off, a proper tear-up, Benn was on the canvas in the first, and I remember him looking in trouble and hurt, but he got up and smashed on, knocking Logan out in the second, typical hard as nails, ferocious and dangerous warrior Nigel.
Benn maybe not quite the greatest British fighter but hard to think of a more exciting and destructive one.
Brilliant swash-buckling stoush! Good, honest shots all the time, and no holding. Good commentary.
Nigel Benn the Dark Destroyer. Never seen this one before, thanks for the upload. :)
Favourite British boxer growing up!
Britains best bar none. Truly a boxing legend. ❤❤
‘Barkley! Barkley! Barkley’
Shhhhhhhhhh
😂😂😂
Excellent I miss a good brawl.
Nobody and I mean "NOBODY" had more of a warrior instinct than Nigel Ben.
another typical 80s-90s streetfight. props to both fighters
This is real boxing
And what isn't real boxing?
@@strahinjajovanovic2673
You tubers
@@strahinjajovanovic2673 Opportunists and cowards, trying to stink out the night at range, too scared to take a blow, defrauding the public and stealing money. Each coming to a tacit understanding, that it's better to avoid making any real conviction and 1 of them coming away with the points victory.
That's The last decade of boxing!
@@strahinjajovanovic2673 mate the days of Henry cooper and this is the last guys that the ref would let box too the point off destroyed opponents
@@nickkray5938 yeah you're right youtubers aren't boxers
What an era!!
Brilliant listening to Jim Watt doing commentary
Never has the phrase Heart of a lion been more accurate in describing a boxer 🥊🥊
( note to Tyson Fury) When fighters fought the best fighters
Tyson is rubbishing the sport ey !
But fury is in it for the money so far play to him
Fury would have destroyed ali as the size & weight difference is very similar to mayweather jr vs ali & yes mayweather jr is quicker & more manoeuvrable than ali was but with the difference would he really beat ali ????? Then there is no way ali could beat the king Tyson Fury… 🏴😄👍
Benn always did well against the heavy hitters like Berkley and McClellan. It was when he came up against the more technical boxers like Watson and Eubank that he struggled. Class act though and was always great to watch
McClellan got brain damage from Jackson badly ben just finished him off there should have stopped the fight when a fighter starts blinking that is a sign of brain damage i am not talking the fight away from Ben he was my hero nigel Benn but you can't blame nigel for that he just finished him off sad really to put that on his shoulders
But that is boxing and not fighting a good boxer will always win everytime when you meet the best in the world they will not stand in front of you they will take you to the cleaners
great video 👍👍👍👊👊👊
The Dark Destroyer at his best , AWESOME!
Nigel Benn was an absolute Beast (British Mike Tyson).
😂😂😂are you outta your mind!!???
@@destroyyoutube9187 Nope,Benn was scary/intimidating as hell and was a ferocious puncher.
@@mktf5582 Damn straight. this wasn't even his biggest tear up. I reckon he had more than Mike. versus Watson, 1st fight with Eubank and McClelland and against Dewitt - all absolute classics(No retreat, no surrender!)
I love that era of boxing, Benn, Collins, Eubank, Watson (my fav). Never seen this fight before and while I am glad Benn won that was twice on the same round he hit his opponent after they were down. The first knockdown Barkley should have had a count then at the end of the count Benn should have been given a stern warning. After the second knockdown and a hit after the opponent was on the floor he should have had a point taken off and warned he will be disqualified.
Just saying 😀
Benn was our Tyson.
Hardly!
@@stevefowler3398 ...it certainly wasn't Bruno 😆
That’s when boxing was class 🥊
Benn was a machine….one of the best middleweight boxers of all time.
The Nigel Benn stung in Barclays square.
love this!
💪 awesome video thanks 😎👍
An absolute great Nigel Benn, the magical era of british boxing.
To great fighters of the 90s
My favourite boxer of all time , I know that Mr Tyson will always be the greatest
Ali
I had forgotten how good Mr Benn was.
Jesus, Benn's punches had some snap on them!
BENN WAS MAGNIFECENT BARKLEY BECAME CHAMPION TWICE MORE AFTER THIS BOTH GREAT FIGHTERS LEGENDS
He was a machine, one of the very best in the weight division
Ben is one of my favourite boxers, he was an absolute beast.
what a boxer one of the best in my book
Fantastic days
Twice Benn hit Barkley while he was down
Good. Should have hit him some more. American cheats
Nigel a beast. Reminds me of Hearns .
Benn was always bonkers in the ring.
I remember the Gerald McClellan fight live and its a real shame what happened to Gerald after. But it was also one of the best fights I've ever seen.
Now Benn II v Eubank II. Eubank II looks great.
Benn was a beast - his fights with Chris Eubank were battles
Loved Watching Benn, absolutely brutal fighter all heart.
Benn is beloved here in the UK
Amazing performance by benn , especially in Barkley s back yard 🥊🥊🥊
Benn was pure dynamite. Its a shame in that era that the brits tended to square off and fight, and make no mistake, it was a golden era for brit and world boxing at middle and super-m. A fair few US boxers, Nunn, and others either ducked, or never fought against people. Benn seemed often to never be more dangerous than when hurt and on ropes. A fair bit of tragedy in the era two and a reflection of the level of violence and level of fighting of that era.
To be fair, Nunn was supposed to fight the winner of Eubank vs Benn 2 but that fight was a draw. He fought Toney and Kalambay so he did fight some very good fighters.
@@jimmynich4791 lots of fights could or should have happened. I saw Toney blabbing on a TV show, but he never fought them. To be honest, the only thing I can say is had some of the fights been made, it would have taken the era from a golden one to I don't know what, but what an era it would have been. With Benn vs highest level, never sure who would win, but sure to be an exciting fight.
Haggler was tougher than hearns mentally tougher and it seems to me Ben was mentally tougher than most of his but Hagler wasn’t that favoured by the media for some reason but oh boy was he tough.I loved Tyson but looking back these middleweight fights were more evenly matched 12 rounds slugfests moving to and fro with each boxer an inch from victory or defeat ❤😂🎉
@Peter jones Hagler had the best chin ever I think, only ever down once with an illegal punch from Roldan and he was very rarely even shaken, as tough as they come really. La Motta and Monzon had top tier chins as well, funny all 3 were middleweight as well.
@@jimmynich4791 One of the changes was IIRC Hagler was from that brutally tough 15 round era. Not that it changes a huge amount, but I think the 10/12 round era had harder fighting and less endurance mentally. It feels to me that the shorter round era was somewhat more explosive. Also, much of this was done at super middleweight - this bunch were all big middleweights..
Stopped too early. Proper tear-up though.
Dark.....destroyer!
What an absolute warrior Nigel was.
At his peak Benn was frightening and was involve in some of the hardest fight I have witnessed,it was painful to watch him at the end of his career but his legacy for me makes him the best of his era in British and European boxers
Benn constantly hit Barkley when he was down and on the canvas. The referee failed to warn Benn about his dirty tactics but instead prematurely stopped the fight.
The 3 knock down roles was in place so fuck him ben won
Huge Benn fan but those head shots when Barkley was already down were a bit naughty lol.
They didn’t call him the Dark Destroyer for nothing a warrior to his very core!
People claimed Covid is the primary reson why the world have to watch 9-0-0 fighters defending a major title. Thanks for showing us how REAL super-champs fought
I remember the Yanks as they always seem to quote their fighters were the best lb for lb fighters on the planet, in this case it was Barkley and Benn made mince meat of him. You don't forget these silly quotes from the Yanks. They said the same thing about Lacy and Calzaghe gave him an absolute boxing lesson and masterclass.
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big bad benn. great boxer. he had some of the toughest fights.
Benn was Great to watch
Nigel never ducked ANYBODY. The best British boxer we produced in terms of fighting.
Watson, Eubank, Lennox, Froch and Calzaghe were brilliant too, but Nigel, for me, was the best. Out of the ring, a really nice bloke too.
Benn best of the era.
Dark destroyer a legend superb boxer 👍👍
Ben was a class act .
Ben was a nutter loved a brawl old school warrior.
What warriors!!
A great puncher always has a chance
Back when fighters....would actually fight each other..