Part One: Your Top 3 Greatest Boxing Rivalries

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  1. Mandanda

    Mandanda SkillspayBills Full Member

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    :good Cheers Mate. Hoping to put a few more together over next few days.
     
  2. Longcount

    Longcount boxing Full Member

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    Steve Bunce vs Marina Hyde
    Riddick Bowe vs Jorge Luis Gonzales
    Jack Johnson vs the White establishment
     
  3. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    I didn't know there was any issues between those two.... though I could imagine Buffer to be a bit of a diva :lol:

    I'd take Lennon any day of the week, top notch.
     
  4. Mandanda

    Mandanda SkillspayBills Full Member

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    :deal:deal ''It's Shooowtime!''
     
  5. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Perm any 2 from all the black HWs from 1900 until 1930.
     
  6. Vano-Irons

    Vano-Irons Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    :fire:fire:fire:fire:fire

    I didnt see you post that
     
  7. jpab19

    jpab19 Exploding Muffin Dad Full Member

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    I've made some serious suggestions, so, if I may:

    Ahem, Cristian Mijares-Tomas Rojas.

    I'd be more than happy to give an explanation, if anyone cared to actually know.:lol:
     
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    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    Norman stone vs Alton Merkerson and any referee who annoyed him.
     
  9. BrummyLad

    BrummyLad Sergio Kun Aguero Full Member

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    I think an interesting pick for me, would be rivalries that never got sorted in the ring. The fights I personally really wanted to see, but never got my wishes;
    Hatton v Witter
    Froch v Calzaghe
    Pac v Mayweather (can't ever see this fight coming to fruition)

    The rivalries I most think of and one's are meaningful to me;
    Ray Robinson v LaMotta
    Mac Schmeling v Joe Louis
    Pac v JMM

    Notable mentions go to;
    Gatti V Ward
    MAB v Moralles
     
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    Boxing organisations vs Common sense.
     
  11. LP_1985

    LP_1985 JMM beat Pac-Man 3 Times Full Member

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    MGM Vs MSG
     
  12. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Thats been more one-sided than Robinson-Lamotta in recent years...;)
     
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    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Burdis KO Logan by
    slow.................... stop.................. starty.......... introductory....... death
     
  14. LP_1985

    LP_1985 JMM beat Pac-Man 3 Times Full Member

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    o2 Vs MEN then :tong

    altho MEN pips that 1 aswell
     
  15. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    I also like the Junior Jones/Kennedy Mckinney rivalry. Not really a well know one, but Kennedy beat Junior for a place in the 1988 Olympics, which Mckinney eventually won gold in. When they met in the pro's, there was already animosity between the 2. Mckinney trash talked a lot before their fight, and you could tell that Junior wanted revenge for the Olympic loss. Their fight, like many rivals, was a back and forth war which Mckinney won but not without taking a beating for 3 rounds. Junior came very, very close to stopping Mckinney in round 3, but punched himself out and was knocked out in the very next round.

    On his birthday.

    That must have been a hard pill to swallow, losing to your Olympic rival on your birthday after coming to withing a hair of stopping him a round earlier.