Your Top Ten Fights?

That you've seen, ever.

 

1. Galindez-Kates I
2. Chavez-Taylor
3. Corrales-Castillo I
4. Holmes-Weaver
5. Sanchez-Nelson
6. Barrera-Morales I
7. Arguello-Olivares
8. Gavilan-Turner
9. Rosario-Ramirez II
10. Olivares-Kanazawa II

 

#10. Saad-Pops I
#09. Chacon-Lopez
#08. Banke-Zaragoza II
#07. Chacon-Edwards II
#06. Scott-Ortega I
#05. Saad-Lopez II
#04. Morales-Barrera I
#03. Pryor-Arguello I
#02. Ortega-Paret I
#01. Chacon-Limon IV

 

In thinking about it, it's clear that fights I watched live rank the highest. And I'm not willing to perform the mental gymnastics I'd need to overcome that bias. Thus:

Corrales/Castillo I
Trinidad/Vargas
Morales/Barrera
Pacquiao/JMM I
Ward/Gatti I
Vazquez/Marquez III
Gonzalez/Letterlough
PBF/Castillo I
Bowe/Holyfield I
Mosley/ODH I

 

Pacquai JMM 4 was one of the best fight ive seen live

 

When I say live, I don't mean in person. The best fights I've seen in person are:

Leykovich vs. Brewster
Guillermo Jones vs. Braithwaite

 

If I'd have ran into you that weekend at mgm then pacquaio would've had a french slumber buddy

 

I mean the same thing as you. Havent reslly seen a live-in person fight that was good. Best one was probably Adam green vs Stephanen Desormier, but it wasnt thatngood bar the come from behind last round finish, and they were two clubfighters

 

Great thread. Great mentions. Cheers Lads

 

Here's my list:- it's of fights that most people here either saw live or saw very very shortly after they happened. My criteria are atmosphere, action, quality of the combatants and especially those fights which went the distance or got close to going the distance. Late shifts in momentum are worth considering too.

Very easy to have 2, 3, 4 rounds of mayhem, harder to keep it going for 12.

Ward vs Gatti

Froch vs Pascal

Froch vs Kessler

Wlad vs Joshua

Pac vs Marquez {the draw}

Barrera vs Morales

McKinney vs Barrera {Barrera had an attitude problem that thankfully got fixed down the line}

Scott Dixon vs Derek Roche- you've never heard of it but the 7th round- after what happened in the 6th- and 9th rounds are two of the better rounds of boxing in British Title history at least. Scott Dixon rattled off hooks in the 9th round that nobody with his physique should have been able to do. Great fight and deserved a better audience and promotion than it got.

Video features Poetry Corner with Christopher Livingston Eubank {yes that's his name} at the end, and, yes, he's doing actual poetry.




Eubank vs Thompson I




I'll finish the list later, I am sure I've seen 2 more good fights to fill out the list.

 

Great choices! Galindez-Kates 1 in particular is such a slept-on classic.

 

1. Aaron Pryor v Alexis Arguello 1 (1982)
2. Bobby Chacon v Rafael Limon 4 (1982)
3. Bobby Chacon v Cornelius Boza-Edwards 2 (1983)
4. Matthew Saad Muhammad v Yaqui Lopez 2 (1980)
5. Archie Moore v Yvon Durelle 1 (1958)
6. Muhammad Ali v Joe Frazier 3 (1975)
7. Wilfredo Gomez v Lupe Pintor (1982)
8. Salvador Sanchez v Azumah Nelson (1982)
9. Carmen Basilio v Tony DeMarco 2 (1955)
10. Roberto Duran v Iran Barkley (1989)

 

People in here talking Mike Weaver vs Holmes!

Where's the appreciation for the skill, the artistry!!!