Top Five Fights of the 2000s

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  1. Erratic

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    Corrales-Castillo 1 is my #1, followed by Barrera-Morales 1

    The rest of the top 5 would be Gatti-Ward 1, Trinidad-Vargas, and I guess Vazquez-Marquez 3?

    Vazquez-Marquez 2 is high up there too. There’s others like Ward-Augustus, Toney-Jirov, Cotto-Margarito 1, Pavlik-Taylor 1, Arthur-Gomez, Morales-Pacquiao 1, Cotto-Torres, etc...I’m comfortable with my top 2 picks but not the rest.
     
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    From memory, I'd probably go with:

    1. Corrales-Castillo I
    2. Barrera-Morales I
    3. Gatti-Ward I
    4. Ayala-Tapia I
    5. Tito-Vargas

    Honorable mentions go to Vazquez-Marquez III, Williams-Martinez I, and Tito-Mayorga.
     
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    Pavlik-Taylor 1 is in my top 5
     
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    Morales vs Pac II is up there, great bout with a conclusive ending
     
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    Biased of course but I think Vitali vs Sanders and Vitali vs Lewis were the two best HW fights of 2000-2009 inclusive and should crack most top 10 lists accordingly. Not top 5 but nunber 1o in a top 10 list, definitely. That they happened 1 year apart is helpful. They were proper slugfests with no shortage of blood and incredibly, when you think of the shots landed, neither man went down. They stood and traded, and not mindlessly.
     
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    Morales-Barrera I
    Vazquez-Marquez III
    Corrales-Castillio I
    Morales-Pacquiao I
    Gatti-Ward I

    Lots of runners up here, too. I love Gonzalez-Letterlough, which hasn't been mentioned (although I don't think it would crack top five; definitely top ten).
     
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    As a fight, Brewster vs Liakovich was probably the best heavyweight bout, but if you consider the significance, then Vitaly vs Lewis
     
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    Saw it live. :Dan1:
     
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    Erratic "Twinkle Toes" McJack

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    For sustained action, Liakhovich-Brewster is the best HW fight of the 21st century.
     
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    That was one of the first fights that came to mind but that fight happened in 1999.
     
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    Whoops, I was wondering why no one else was mentioning it. :Jest:
     
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    My list:

    1. Corrales-Castillo 1
    2. Barrera-Morales 1
    3. Pavlik-Taylor 1
    4. Tito-Vargas
    5. Letterlough-Gonzalez
     
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    1. Trinidad-Vargas
    2. Corrales-Castillo 1
    3. Morales-Barrera 1
    4. Vasquez-Marquez 3
    5. Marquez-Diaz 1
     
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    Bradley vs providnikov deserves mention
     
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    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

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    Thats a 2010s fight. It happened in 2013.

    2000s means 2000-2009.
     
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    does it? i assumed it meant from 2000 on
     
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    I think I'd probably have 4 Morales fights in there - Barrera 1 & 3, Pac 1&2. Plus Corrales-Castillo

    El Terrible = :Bravo::Thanks:
     
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    I'll do this a little differently and select 5 of my favorites that were one time only events:

    Toney-Jirov
    Trinidad-Vargas
    ODLH-Vargas
    Marquez-Casamayor
    Letterlough-Gonzalez
     
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    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

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    Shit, I forgot about Toney-Jirov.
     
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    Shit me too! I'll be damned if i didnt rewatch my old vhs copy of that until the tape chewed, too. I'll take out barrera-morales 3 and replace it with that
     
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    I'm not mad, but i'm disappointed.
     
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