Best Title Fight By Weight Class?

I think at LHW, Moore-Durelle I is up there.

At SMW, you have the two tragic fights in Eubank-Watson II and Benn-McClellan, along with Liles-Littles II.

I'm not sure about middleweight. At 154, I'd pick Trinidad-Vargas with little hesitation.

I don't like Leonard-Hearns I as much as others. It was highly skilled, two ATGs in/very close to their primes, great shifts in momentum, but lacked the sustained combat of a lot of other terrific WW fights. Basilio-DeMarco, Margarito-Cotto, Page-Lopez, Duran-Leonard I.

130 is tough to choose between Chacon-Limon IV and Chacon-Edwards II.

At 122, I'd go with Barrera-Morales I.

At 115, Quiroga-Anifowoshe was an excellent (although tragic) fight.

 

HW: Ali-Frazier III
CW: Holy-Qawi I
LHW: Moore-Durelle 1
SMW: Benn-McClellan
MW: Hagler-Hearns
JMW: Trinidad-Vargas. Alvarado-Wajima I was pretty damned good, too
WW: Leonard-Hearns I
JWW: JCC-Taylor 1
LW: Corrales-Castillo I
JLW: Chacon-Limon IV
FW: Sanchez-Nelson
JFW: Gomez-Pintor
BW: Harada-Jofre I
JBW: Marquez-Concepcion 1, Quiroga-Anifowoshe
FLY: Chianoi-Torres I
JFLW: Carbajal-Gonzalez I. Could now make a case that Segura-Calderon 1 was at the very least, close to its equal
Minimum: Lopez-Alvarez II

 

Heavy: Homes/Norton
190: Agree
175: Moore/DurelleI
168: Because of what happen with Benn/McClellan, I would say Liles/LittlesII
160: agree
154: Hines/Hilton
147: agree
140: agree
135: Duran/DeJesusII
130: Nelson/FenechI
126: Kelley/Dorsey
122: Meza/Garza
118: Canizales/HardyI
115: Quiroga/Akeem
112: Bassa/McAuleyI
108: Carbajal/GonzalesI
105: Have not a clue, but I believe your pick was at 108lbs.

 

Nope. The second fight was at 105, too. :deal

 

Fair dues, I apologize, and stand corrected, even if Alvarez weighed in as a Flyweight...

 

Heavyweight: Ali/Frazier I & Holyfield/Bowe I
Cruiserweight: Holyfield/Qawi I
Lt. Heavyweight: Saad Muhammad/Lopez II
Super Middleweight: McClellan/Benn
Middleweight: Kalambay/McCallum II & Hagler/Hearns
Jr. Middleweight: Hilton/Drayton & McCallum/Curry
Welterweight: Duran/Leonard I
Jr. Welterweight: Pryor/Arguello I
Lightweight: Canzoneri/Chocolate I & Corrales/Castillo I
Super Featherweight: Chacon/Limon IV
Featherweight: Saldivar/Winstone II
Super Bantamweight: Gomez/Pintor & Morales/Barrera I
Bantamweight: Harada/Jofre I
Jr. Bantamweight: Konadu/Moon I
Flyweight: Espadas/Gonzalez
Jr. Flyweight: Chang/Zapata I & Carbajal/Gonzalez I
Strawweight: I guess one of Lopez's blowouts, whichever was most fun to watch

 

The commentators totally watered down Gomez/Pintor for me.

 

Yeah, great fight though. It's Harold Lederman's all-time favourite.

Are you the TommyGun that keeps getting a mention on Boxnation?

 

No i've never been on that site

 

Damn. I thought you were the one Bunce was on about.

 

Superb picks. :good

The divisions with two fights listed are almost impossible to choose between, although I lean towards the second mention in almost every case. :think

 

I'm gonna go for some more modern fights (within 15 years) that I expect to be ommited but are certainly worthy of a mention. Only including championship fights.

Hw: tyson - holyfield
Cw: haye - mormeck
Lhw: pascal - hopkins 1
Smw: taylor - froch
Mw: martinez - pavlick
Lmw: tito - vargas
Ww: margo - cotto
Lww: hatton - maussa
Lw: castillo - coralles
Sfw: marquez - pac 2
Fw: mab - em 2
Sbw: marquez - vasquez 3
Bw: perez - agbeko
Sflw: mijares - darchinyan
Flw: donaire - darchinyan
Lflw: segura - calderon.

 

CW Im not certain on Holy v Qawi any longer.
Jirov v Toney, Mormeck v Braithwaite and Mormecks bouts with Bell were excellent fights.
Adamek v Cunningham was good too