The 5 best fighters you saw fight live in your lifetime explain and discuss

Seen live...

Shane Mosley (looked horrible against Mora though), Andre Ward (saw him KO Dawson), Canelo (saw in KO Baldomir).

 

sweet pea
sugar ray leonard
roy jones jr
floyd mayweather jr
mike tyson.

 

Mayweather
Morales
Barrera
Toney
Ward

 

never had the pleasure of watching any elite level fighter live australia sucks... if mundine brings canelo down here ill be throwing thousands to sit ringside in my mexican colours

 

Kessler
Johnny Bredahl
Khalid Rahilou
Julien Lorcy
Manny Siaca/Mads Larsen

 

The five best ive seen live....

5. Vasily Jirov - got to see his all time great fight with James Toney from ringside.

4. Naseem Hamed - saw him stop Augie Sanchez. To see how small he was and to see and hear him punch was amazing.

3. Evander Holyfield - saw his second fight with Alex Stewart in Atlantic city. The fight wasnt memorable, but having seen him fight was.

2. James Toney - besides having seen him fight Jirov i also saw him beat Adolfo Washington. Incredible fighter live, you see so much more of his defensive nuaces andc ounter punching ability live.

1. Lennox Lewis - saw him stop Briggs in Atlantic city. Going into the fight i was rooting for Briggs because i had met him five or six years earlier in i think his seventh pro fight in Tiverton Rhode Island. He was laid back and cool, but Lennox beat his ass and went on to an ATG career.

Honorable mention: Vinny Pazienza - ive probably seen him fight live 20 times. The best being his 154 WBA title win vs Gilbert Dele at the Providence civic center. Never been part of a boxing crowd that big or intense, and seeing a guy i had actually been in the gym with was pretty damn cool.

Have seen dozens of other name fighters but these were the best.

 

I saw him against Sam Peter in their first fight at Staples Center and couldn't for the life of me figure out how anybody had Peter winning that fight. Toney gave the caveman a boxing lesson that night.

 

"live" or "in person"? If it's in person then I'd have to say Joe Mesi ( I've been to plenty of fights just no big fights all my ringside audiences have been Texas Leaguers. Probably wouldn't be many names you'd recognize. )

As in live on television:

1. Azumah Nelson
2. M.A. Barrerra
3. Floyd May Jr.
4. Mike McCallum
5. Wladimir Klitschko

 

I believe he meant in person, otherwise my list would have been quite different.

 

Some of those Texas leaguerers are in the best fights though. Best knockout i ever saw live was Andrew Murray absolutely decimating Micheal Covington with one punch on the undercard of the second Rosenblatt-Pazienza fight. Of course ive been to many cards where there you 20 fightg uys that looked like they took up boxing only a month before. Im assuming youre talking this scenario rather tan my own.

 

To this day I'm scratching my head why Benji Singleton and Lewis Wood didn't go further in their respective careers.

 

manny pacquaio was their when he fought cotto that fight fight was amazing

 

I saw Pac V Morales 2
Mayweather V Ortiz
Tyson V Golota
Tyson V Lewis
Darchinyan V Arce