Fighters that have been involved in 3 or more great fights

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  1. Destruction and Mayhem

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    These are the truly exciting guys. THREE or more great fights. Exclusive club.

    Leonard (Hagler, Hearns 1, Duran 1)
    Ali (Frazier 1 and 3, Foreman)
    Morales (Barrera 1 and 3, Pacquiao 1 and 2)
    Pacquiao (Morales 1, Morales 2, Marquez 1, Marquez 4)


    What others? (List the fights)
     
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    morales been in way more than 3 great fights
     
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    Arturo Gatti (vs. Ward I, vs. Ruelas, vs. Robinson I, vs. Rodriguez)...

    Matthew Saad Muhammad's ENTIRE Reign as Light Heavyweight Champion, Practically...Excluding the Braxton Fights and 1-2 Easy Blowouts, ALL of Saad's Title Fights were Back and Forth, On the Verge of a LOSS, Action Bouts...






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    Marquez
     
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    Bowe and Holyfield were involved in three great fights with each other
     
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    1 and 3 were GREAT Fights...Not Sooooo Sure About 2, However...

    Fan Man Obviously Made it MEMORABLE, but it was the LEAST Action Oriented Fight of the Bowe-Holyfield Trilogy, in REED's Opinion...





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    Which Fights, in Particular???...





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    Pacquiao, hopkins, sturm
     
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    Quartey, Trinidad, Mosley

    Honorable mention Vargas
     
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    Saad's the very first that came to mind.
     
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    I think some of you guys missed the memo:

    LIST THE DAMNED FIGHTS!!!
     
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    The first guy I thought of was Arguello. Pryor, Oliveras, Mancini and two or three more.

    It seems to me that good/great fighters with average defense end up in more great fights than others
     
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    Are we talking great fighters? Because I'm seeing names like Gatti being thrown around. If not, Danny Williams tops the list.
     
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    I dunno if I'd call them "great" fights, but Farmer Froch was involved in three very good fights: Pascal, Taylor, and the first Kessler fight.
     
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    Leonard Hagler was far from a great fight, and neither was Ali-Foreman
     
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    The first Groves fight was also scorcher
     
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    I agree Leonard-Hagler wasn't great. But given the consistent drama of Ali-Foreman culminated by arguably the most dramatic ending in boxing history, it could be considered a great fight.
     
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    Hmmm....I found Leonard Hagler to be great. It didn't have a war, with either guy in danger of being stopped or anything...but it was a classic clash of styles, every round was action packed and fortunes shifted back and forth round after round. it was also fought at a very high level. Great IMO. Nevertheless I can except the position that it wasn't classically "great".

    Ali Foreman was great though. Rope a dope...Foreman exploding on him and Ali coming to life with flurries off the ropes. Great action round after round. Knockout finish was beautiful.

    "And Ali with a sneaky right hand. Another sneaky right hand! Now he works over the shoulder of Foreman and delivers combinations!!!!!" Good shit.
     
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    We shoulda mentioned Corrales by now. Involved in the best fight ever, and a few really good fights - Frietas, Casamayor 1, Roberto Garcia, ect.
     
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    Yup, Corrales was a bad boy. Obviously the first Castillo fight...but I like the way he walked through Frietas' firepower and forced him to quit with the pressure.

    Vargas was involved in a couple great fights: re Tito and Oscar...but I can't think of a third.
     
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    Opinions are like assholes....
     
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    It's hard to find three legitimately GREAT fights. Tito-Vargas was without question a great fight. DLH-Vargas wasn't a great fight, but it was a good one. Vargas-Quartey was a good fight also, as was Wright-Vargas.
     
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    Lets be real, the oscar trinidad fight was in no way a great fight.
     
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    Maybe he read it as greatest disappointments.
     
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    Wow. Hearns doesn't make this list? ........Leonard 1, Hagler....?????? No third for Tommy???
     
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