The biggest fights of all time?

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  1. Hook!

    Hook! Proud member of team G. Full Member

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    Your top 5?

    Also where would Floyd vs Pac fit in the list if it would break into your top 5. :good
     
  2. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    Biggest as in favourite, most anticipated or that got the most attention that I like.
    If its the last one then ali vs frazier 1
    ali vs foreman
    duran vs leonard
    hagler vs hearns
    pac vs oscar
     
  3. Hook!

    Hook! Proud member of team G. Full Member

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    i mean biggest as in how big the fight was before the opening bell was rung if ya get me?
     
  4. Baldwin

    Baldwin Boxing Addict banned

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    wlad vs haye was huge before the bell Mayweather vs Hatton Cotto margo recent ones
     
  5. PityTheFool

    PityTheFool Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think it's lost the pizazz it had in 09-10.
    Doesn't excite me at all anymore.Just can't see how Manny wins.Too easy for Floyd for me.
    Leonard-Hagler was the biggest fight of my lifetime.The biggest fights in recent years don't compare.Lewis-Tyson was too late,De La Hoya-Trinidad was a damp squib.The 80s were a terrible decade for many things,but big time boxing peaked in that era.
     
  6. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    its big but in a sport as old as boxing i dont know where it would go historically all time

    also like stated before its quite over due
     
  7. Post Box

    Post Box I'm back too, bitches Full Member

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    The build up to Mayweather vs Hatton was actually insane in England. The media corrupted the mind of a 13 year old version of myself to put a 1 pound bet on Hatton to win :| I'll never live that **** down
     
  8. the_truth

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    I cant believe no one has mention Tito and DLH which smash records for the smaller guys and perhaps the start of the smaller weight divisions becoming the talk of boxing more than ever. But the question should be why are the biggest fights a lot of the times becomes more of the forgotten ones since they dont live to expectations?
     
  9. Sandokan32

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    The biggest-most hyped fight of all time was...

    Louis vs Schmelling II

    2nd place: Ali vs Frazier I
    3rd place: Tyson vs Holyfield II
    4th place: Tyson vs Spinks
    5th place: Leonard vs Hagler
     
  10. g.dog

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    tito vs oscar gotta be up there!
     
  11. PityTheFool

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    It really was insane.That was when I really stopped disliking Floyd and appreciating his ability.I had him winning all through the build up,but then at 8pm on fight night,I saw that Hatton was 3/1.Some of that insanity gripped me,and I stuck £200 on Ricky,but even as I took my slip I said to myself;"you'd have been as well wiping your arse with that money,you ****ing imbecile!"
    And so it came to pass...
    What the **** was I thinking?:patsch
    That insanity gripped me for all of ten minutes and I pissed away a double cenny.:!:
     
  12. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    love the Louis shout

    where would you put Johnson vs Jeffries and Sullivan vs Corbett Holmes vs Cooney
     
  13. Hook!

    Hook! Proud member of team G. Full Member

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    It was quite magical, I have never seen anything like it, if it wasn't for the out culture around here that would have had 2mill ppv buys IMO. I was so upset when he lost, i actually hated floyd back then.
     
  14. cippi

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    alot of oscar fights back in the day .

    oscar vs tito
    oscar vs vargas
    oscar vs b hop
    oscar vs mosley 1 and 2

    lewis holyfield 1 and 2

    alot of RJJ
    jones vs ruiz
    jones vs tarver 1 and 2

    the last one before the bell i could remember that was big was haye vs wlad and may vs ortiz .

    pac vs may would be huge.

    then a couple notches below ward vs bute would have a ton of buzz.

    theres alot of fights with huge anticipation remember tito vs joppy how bout vargas vs tito.

    tito was generating alot of buzz the b hop vs tito fight was another

    i dont really gotta mention floyd but i will he always generates buzz b4 the fite especially vs hatton / marquez/ ortiz / gatti

    cotto vs pacman so many fights that really get me going but alot of them werent that great.
     
  15. seansanashee

    seansanashee Boxing Addict Full Member

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