HW: Bowe-Golota II CW: Toney-Jirov LHW: Saad-Pops I SMW: Watson-Eubank II MW: Duran-Barkley JMW: Tito-Vargas WW: Ortega-Paret I JWW: Pryor-Arguello I LW: Corrales-Castillio I SFW: Chacon-Limon IV FW: Fenech-Villasana SBW: Barrera-Morales I BW: Avelar-Vasquez SFly: Moon-Konadu I Fly: Kim-Mathebula LFly: Yuh-DeMarco I Min: Rodriguez Jr-Takayama IMO.
IMO: Heavy: Ali-Frazier 1 Cruiser: Holy-Qawi 1 LHW: Harding-Andries 1 SMW: Froch-Taylor MW: Pavlik-Taylor 1 JMW: Tito-Vargas WW: Basilio-DeMarco II JWW: Pryor-Arguello 1 LW: Corrales-Casillo 1 JLW: Chacon-Limon IV Featherweight: Sanchez-Nelson Super Bantam: Garza-Ishii Bantam: Jofre-Medel 1 Superfly: Todaka-Sithoar Fly: Bassa-McCalauay 1 Junior Fly: Chang-Tokashiki Min: Ohashi-Choi
I strongly considered Avelar-Vasquez for bantam, but Jofre-Medel was just fought at 10x the skill level, so had to go with that.
I'll limit them to world title fights. Heavy: Ali-Frazier I Cruiser: Mutti-Murphy Light-Heavy: Kates-Galindez I Super-Middle: Littles-Liles II Middle: Hearns-Hagler Light-Middle: Dottuev-Vasquez Welter: DeMarco-Basilio II Light-Welter: Arguello-Pryor I Light: Corrales-Castillo I Super-Feather: Chacon-Limon IV Feather: Winstone-Saldivar II Super-Bantam: Banke-Zaragoza II Bantam: Ayala-Tapia I Super-Fly: Akeem-Quiroga Fly: McAuley-Bassa I Light-Fly: Carbajal-Gonzalez I Straw: Alvarez-Lopez II
I initially wrote in Saldivar-Winstone II at feather. Then thought about it for a few moments, and chose Sanchez-Nelson instead.
Easily done isn't it, @Xplosive. It's a bit of a joke how many awesome choices there are in the bottom five or six divisions around that time (eighties and nineties). Also wouldn't object too strongly to your choice at 126 lb. Just something about the style match up between Winstone and Saldivar which always gives their second fight the edge for me.
I know it ended in death, but Sugar Ramos vs Davey Moore was a GREAT, GREAT fight and arguably the best at featherweight imo.
I know it's cold to put it so bluntly, but fights where people die are always really good. Weird, right?
HW - Holmes-Weaver CW - Holy-Qawi I LHW - Galindez-Kates I SMW - Froch-Taylor MW - EDIT: Robinson-LaMotta VI JMW - Tito-Vargas WW - Gavilan-Turner JWW - Chavez-Taylor I LW - Corrales-Castillo I JLW - Navarrete-Choi FW - Sanchez-Nelson JFW - Barrera-Morales I BW - Olivares-Kanazawa II JBW - Galaxy-Alberto Castro
Not always, but in a lot of cases, yes. The Ramos-Moore case was unique though, because Moore didn't actually die because of the punches. Hitting the bottom rope killed him, not Ramos' blows.
Only full fights that I've seen are listed. And yeah, I cheated a bit but only where it was too painful to choose one fight over another that I felt was probably equally deserving - so gave the runner up an honourable mention. Soz. Heavyweight • Winner: Ali-Frazier 3 • Runner up: Ali-Frazier 1 Cruiserweight • Winner: Toney-Jirov • Runner up: Murphy-Mutti Light heavyweight • Winner: Saad Muhammad-Lopez 2 • Runner up: Moore-Durelle Super middleweight: Benn-McClellan Middleweight: Duran-Barkley Junior middleweight: Trinidad-Vargas Welterweight: Basilio-DeMarco 2 Junior welterweight: Pryor-Arguello 1 Lightweight: Corrales-Castillo 1 Junior lightweight: Chacon-Limon 4 Featherweight: Sanchez-Nelson Junior featherweight: • Winner: Gomez-Pintor • Runner up: Barrera-Morales 1 Bantamweight: • Winner: Harada-Jofre 1 • Runner up: Olivares-Kanazawa 2 Junior bantamweight: Moon-Konadu 1 Flyweight: • Winner: Chionoi-Torres 1 • Runner up: McCauley-Bassa 1 Junior flyweight • Winner: Chang-Tokashiki • Runner up: Carbajal-Gonzalez 1 Strawweight: Yaegashi-Pornaswan
