Best Fight Per Weight?

Name 'em.

 

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.

 

You're right about 108, Chris... totally forgot about Carbajal-Gonzalez 1!

 

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.

 

Yep, sad but very true.

 

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

 

i agree with gomez pintor over morales barrera

 

I think Gonzalez-Sorjaturong is the best Jr. Fly fight.

 

Shit, yeah. That could have equally been no. 1!

 

H: Bowe/Holy I