A few days ago, Spain's 35-year-old veteran Kiko Martinez regained the world championship title after 7 years, which attracted widespread attention inside and outside the industry, so that it was called the best comeback in professional boxing in 2021, so what other extraordinary comebacks before Martinez?
01 Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman
When the battle between Ali and Foreman was finalized, many boxing fans worried that Ali's life was threatened, which was not alarmist, to know that Foreman at that time was too terrible, he tore apart all the opponents in front of him, Joe Fraser and Ken Norton, who had previously defeated Ali, under the attack of Foreman's iron fist, they did not hear the bell at the end of the 2nd round, it is not difficult to imagine what will happen to Ali when he encounters Foreman?
After the start of the war, as expected, Foreman launched a crazy attack on the opponent, but Ali, with his stable psychology and exquisite technology, ate Fuhrman a little bit, exhausted the opponent, and won the 8th round with a heavy KO, so that history was rewritten in the late autumn of 1974.
02 Evand Hollyfield vs Mike Tyson (Battle 1)
In 1994, after losing his title, Holyfield was deemed "scrapped" because he was diagnosed with heart disease. In 1995, Hollyfield returned to the game, but unfortunately suffered an unprecedented defeat, being knocked down by his old rival Dick Bowe, and then playing against Bob Ziz, who started in the 160-pound middleweight, and it took a lot of strength to balance the opponent.
When Hollyfield challenged Tyson, the outside world suspected that he might be beaten back to heart disease, but Hollyfield was a big hit, and TKO Tyson regained the gold belt of the boxing champion in 11 rounds.
03 Schuger Ray Leonard vs Marvin Hagler
After a brilliant career, Leonard retired in 1984, one of the reasons was the retina of the eye, but after 3 years away from the field, the boxing genius announced his comeback, directly challenging the famous middleweight overlord Haggler, this campaign is also Leonard's first time to dabble in his own level, the difficulty can be imagined.
For the battle between Leonard vs. Hagler, many boxing fans and the media are still arguing about the result of the game, but Leonard impressed the referee with his agile and gorgeous style, and finally narrowly defeated Hagler by a narrow score and re-entered the peak of his career.
04 George Foreman vs Michael Mueller
Unlike most comebacks, Foreman's return to the field is very long, one is 7 years (1987-1994), when Foreman and the heavyweight "new section" Müller competed on the same stage, he has twice attacked the world championship without success, few people think that Foreman can succeed, after all, the age of 45 is there, time is a strong enemy you can never defeat.
However, In the end, Fuhrman finally broke the opponent's mouth with a heavy punch in the whole field, regaining the gold belt of the boxer after a full 20 years, and set the record for the oldest heavyweight age to date.
05 Eric Morales vs Pablo Cano
As one of the most legendary boxers in Mexican history, Morales entered 2011, which was no longer what it used to be, when the 35-year-old was completely without the sharpness of his peak, and was considered to play the role of "sparing the prince to practice sword", but people underestimated Morales and ambitions.
When Morales competed with 21-year-old unbeaten rising star Cano (23-0-1, 18KO), seven years after his last victory, it was considered likely to be a success for Cano, but Morales beat his opponent with a swollen face, won the super lightweight title, and became the first boxer in Mexican history to be dominated by four different classes.
06 Tyson-Fury vs Deonte-Wild
Before 2018, the trajectory of Fury's boxing career can be described as a roller coaster, because after reaching the top of the world championship, he was deeply involved in the quagmire of alcoholism and depression, and had to stay away from the field, during which he gained weight, like a clumsy elephant, when he finally came back, the outside world thought that Fury would play a qualified sandbag role, and the defending boxer Wilder at the time was looking at this, so he chose Fury to defend his title.
Wilder's mistake was that he overestimated himself, underestimated his opponents, and knew that in addition to his slackness, Fury's other indices were no less than his opponents, and the result was that Wilder was confused, and if he had not been knocked down twice, Fury would have most likely achieved the "greatest" comeback in the history of boxing, but strength was ultimately the most powerful weapon to crush all doubts, and when Fury met Wilder for the second and third time, he undoubtedly destroyed his opponents.