Most entertaining fights

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  1. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Not necessarily the most skilled but what were the most thrilling entertaining fights you've ever seen..Most people seem to gravitate toward Ward And Gatti, but for my money give me:

    Bobby Chacon and Bazooka Limon Chacon w 15 for the title

    Foreman ,Lyle
    Hagler Hearns
    Chacon, Boza Edwards
    Holyfield, Bowe
    Corrales fights of course

    there are so many that a lot can be overlooked, name a few.
     
  2. surfinghb

    surfinghb Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I liked the Marquez/Vasquez fights. 100% evenly matched, technical, and you just didn't know what was going to happen next. They beat up each other so bad it ruined both of them
    Ring Magazine fight of the year:
    2007 - Marquez/Vasquez I
    2008 - Marquez/Vasquez 11
    Marquez lost both. And they split 2-2
     
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  3. Bokaj

    Bokaj Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    McCallum-Jackson
    Barrera-JMM
    Barrera-Morales fights
    Castillo-Corrales fights
    Sanchez-Gomez
    Marquez-Vasquez fights
    Hagler-Hearns
    Hagler-Mugabi
    McCallum-Toney I
    Gatti-Ward I
    Jones-Folley
     
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  4. Brixton Bomber

    Brixton Bomber Obsessed with Boxing banned Full Member

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    My favourite fights (well, trilogy. I don't count the fourth fight) EVER.

    That was everything that you wanted from Boxing and more...
     
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    Brixton Bomber Obsessed with Boxing banned Full Member

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    Most JMM fights in the 00's.

    Most Manny Pac fights.

    Bradley/Prov
    Naz/Kelly
    Pavlik/Taylor I
    Froch/Kessler (both)
    Foreman/Holyfield
    Bowe/Holyfield
     
  6. Thread Stealer

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    Corrales-Castillo 1 is still my favorite fight ever.

    Some other fights I loved: Ali-Frazier 1 and 3, Moore-Durelle 1, Bowe-Holyfield 1 (I liked all their fights), Saad-M. Johnson 1-2, Saad-Lopez 2, Barrera-Morales 1, Barrera-McKinney, Gomez-Arthur, Robinson-Gatti 1, Ward-Gatti 1, Gatti-Rodriguez, Moorer-Cooper, Bowe-Golota 2, Liles-Littles 2, Cotto-Torres, Hagler-Mugabi, Hagler-Hearns, Gomez-Pintor.
     
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    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Tyrell Biggs vs David Bey
    Hearns v SRL 2
    Hagler vs Mugabi
    Chavez vs Taylor
    Hearns vs Barkley
    Witherspoon vs Holmes
    AJ vs WK
    Holyfield vs DmQ
     
  8. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    One of the most anticipated heavyweight non-title fights ever between a Mike Tyson on the comeback trail after his shock loss against Douglas and Razor Ruddock, seen at the time as arguably the most feared and avoided heavyweight around.

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  9. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    My absolute favorite fight to watch is:
    Azumah Nelson vs Salvador Sanchez

    Runner up is The Bloody Battle of Bayamon Arguello vs Escalera I
     
  10. BundiniBlack

    BundiniBlack Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Some that people never talk about

    Ward vs Neary
    Ortiz vs Maidana
    Guerrero vs Diaz 2
    Duddy vs Campas
    Mosquera vs Valero
    Arce vs Hussein 1
    Bika vs Codrington
    Larios vs Vazquez 2
     
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    The rematch was brutal, Ruddock got the **** beaten out of him but give some really vicious shots to Tyson as well.

    Loved the bodyshots Tyson landed in the 10th.
     
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  12. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You’re right. How that fight went the full 12 rounds I’ll never know with the flush bombs they were landing on each other. Anyone that questions Tyson and Ruddock’s chin and heart should watch that fight. At the end Tyson had some swelling under both eyes while Ruddock ended up looking like Quasimodo’s uglier brother.

    People might say otherwise but I think that career wise that brutal fight took a hellva lot out of both men especially Razor.
     
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