Best fights to show a non boxing-fan?

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  1. JLP 6

    JLP 6 Fighter/Puncher Full Member

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    Anything early Mike Tyson. Show someone that and they will think that not only is boxing the greatest thing in the world but, also Mike Tyson is the greatest fighter that ever lived......Then tell them that Tyson worshipped Jack Dempsey and show them Dempsey-Willard.

    After that show them Pacquaio - Barrera I, or Marquez I, or Hatton. They will think that this little fighter is the most demonic animal that ever fought and will think he is the greatest fighter that ever lived. ......Then tell them that there once existed and animal from the far reaches of...Pamama and show them.

    Lastly have them watch Floyd Mayweather Jr versus Corrales, or Gatti. They will think that have just witnessed the great display of boxing that could ever be......Then give two Sugar's...versus Hearns I and Lamotta VI.

    Gatti-Ward I did it for me
     
  2. MadcapMaxie

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    Going oldschool don't think anyone has mentioned Durelle v Moore and Layne v Satterfield.
     
  3. MadcapMaxie

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    Cooper - Mercer
    Cooper - Moorer
    Cooper - Holyfield
    Morrison - Ruddock
    Morrison - Mercer
    Foreman - Cooney
    Have to show them Golota - Bowe I and II
     
  4. BillB

    BillB Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ali-Liston II, to show them the dark side of the sport.
     
  5. BoxingFanPhil

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    Any Johnny Nelson fight. Not.
     
  6. MadcapMaxie

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    Any Lopez or Chacon fight
     
  7. Pete47

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    Charles - Walcott, when Walcott became champion. An excellent fight in which both boxers showed great technique.
     
  8. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon.

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    Back in college a friend at a party asked me to show him some boxing. I showed him Gatti vs Ward I because it was recent, Hagler vs Hearns because it was short, and Ali vs Frazier III because he knew who they were without even being a fan.
     
  9. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    McCallum-curry?
     
  10. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    No, either you get a colour fight that ends quickly and is intense or you get a fight with a fighter that's very easy to watch like Salvador Sanchez

    Casuals want that, not black and white fights
     
  11. Absolutely!

    Absolutely! Fabulous, darling! Full Member

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    True. Most casuals have the attention span of a goldfish with ADHD. Unless both fighters are duking it out from the opening bell they start to turn away. It's like they expect every fight to have Monshipour vs Sithchatchawal levels of action in it.
     
  12. scribbs

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    If you are doing it to hook them I would go for Foreman V Lyle but start with Mancini V Frias
     
  13. Absolutely!

    Absolutely! Fabulous, darling! Full Member

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    Most casuals don't care about technique or subtle displays of the sweet science. If two guys are free swinging that'll do them.
     
  14. Absolutely!

    Absolutely! Fabulous, darling! Full Member

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    Foreman vs Lyle doesn't really get nuts till a few rounds in. Most will have turned off by then. Lennox vs Vitali is better from an instant excitement point of view.
     
  15. scribbs

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    Yeah but if you had read the post correct then I said start with Mancini V Frias. If you can't get hyped about that fight your clinically dead or don't have any interest in the sport.