Most exciting fight with P4P guys?

I created a similar thread in the MMA forum. I think boxing is certainly superior to MMA in this regard. It's not the point of this thread though.

Just a boxing question for us fans.

Often fights between two world class boxers have a lot of anticipcation and hype.

What's going to happen? Who's going to establish their strengths, who will have to gut it out? What will happen if ...

What were the best fights that lived up to their potential and hype?

 

Julio Cesar Chavez-Meldrick Taylor I
Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales III
Shane Mosley-Oscar De La Hoya I

 

Before some of the obvious ones get taken:

Frazier-Ali
De La Hoya- Vargas
Holyfield-Tyson

 

I would always say Benn - McClellan. This is my favourite ever fight, because it did did exactly what it said on the tin; 160 champ against 168 champ (okay, I'll also accept RJJ ::), both HUGE punchers who promised to try to kill the other guy or die trying. How ironic those promises turned out to be. :doh:

Some more obvious ones, like Ali - Frazier's III and Ali - Foreman spring to mind too.

MTF

 

I gotta learn to type quicker when drunk... ::

 

Leonard vs Hearns

Hagler vs Hearns

Pryor vs Arguello I

 

I think that one does not fit in, since at the time it was expected to be a blowout

 

Arguello trying to get his fourth against Pryor.:blobbox:

 

I don't think that's quite the case. Tyson was a big favorite but not too many people thought it would a repeat of Tyson-Spinks.

Point taken though, it's not the best example.

 

Chavez-Taylor & Tito-Vargas are the first two that come to mind.

 

Arguello v Pryor I and by some margin, IMO.

 

I'm sure you could find ppl who had corrales and castillo ranked going into their first bout. which was the greatest fight ever.

 

That fight was 2nd to Barrera-Morales 1
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interesting that these fights seem to be the exception rather than the rule when it comes to p4p fighters.

pacquiao/jmm

jmm/mab

pacquiao/morales i

pavlik/taylor

sloppy/kessler

 

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TRINIDAD - VARGAS!!

I can hardly remember a fight I was looking forward to more and the fight itself EXCEEDED the hype!!:bears:

 

Between two PxP guys?

I have to go with Pryor-Arguello I and Hagler-Hearns.

Of course one has to mention Corrales-Castillo I and Trinidad-Vargas, but that depends on whether we're talking top-10 PxP guys or not.

Peace.

 

Please! Castillo-Corrales I was a better fight than MAB-Morales I!

 

Tito & Vargas were both considered top 10 P4Pders when they fought.

 

Are you sure about that? I'm not disagreeing, but I don't recall Vargas being quite that highly regarded at that time.