Best MW fights?

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  1. KeedCubano

    KeedCubano Read my posts in a Jamaican accent Full Member

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    Just your ten best please.

    If you want to do both, I won't complain!
     
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  2. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll do the top 10 and then do middlweight by decade later when I have more time. If I had to do a top 10 though (not giving it a lot of thought, and I'm not ranking them either):

    Robinson vs. LaMotta VI
    Robinson vs. Fullmer II
    Basilio vs. Robinson I
    Robinson vs. Basilio II
    Fullmer vs. Paret
    Tiger vs. Fullmer I
    Valdez vs. Briscoe II
    Monzon vs. Valdez II
    Hagler vs. Hearns
    Benn vs. McClellan

    Here's a quick one I put together, though I'm not satisfied with it.
     
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  3. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The first 2 Zale vs Graziano fights for years like about 40 were considered 2 of the greatest if not THE GREATEST fights ever fought. They were not filmed except for a snippett of 2. Of course I never saw them. I doubt anyone still alive has. I'd bet on it.
     
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  4. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well, maybe 13 yr old William Walker who was everywhere and is the hip, happening DUUUDE who knows everything on the inside about every fight. I am sure he has the hot talk of the 2 fights from Toot's Bar itself.
    The 3rd fight is mundane and one sided compared to the 2 way orgy of blood & violence 1 and 2 were. Truly, 1 & 2 were for decades the standard bearer of greatness in action fights. To some of us older fans they still are.
     
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  5. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Martinez vs Chavez Jr.

    Little Martinez looked like he could get ran over at any moment by the hulking Cheeser Jr and thats what very nearly happened in the final round which was an ATG round. A tension filled , edge of your seat type fight to watch live.
     
  6. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    1.Sugar Ray Robinson vs Gene Fullmer II, May 1 1957, Sugar Ray by KO 5. that left hook thrown by Robinson was a thing of beauty.2. Rodrigo Valdes vs Bennie Briscoe II, May 25 1974, vacant WBC World Middleweight Title, Valdes by KO 7. That right hand thrown by Valdes was like a bomb. 3.Carlos Monzon vs Nino Benvenuti I, Nov 7 1970, Monzon by KO 12, Very devastating right hand.
     
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  7. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    must substitute Duran-Barkley for Hagler-Hearns.
     
  8. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Am I the only one who feels hunted by the Morlocks? Talk about a stalker.
     
  9. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Morlocks is everything. Everything is Morlocks. He is life and life is him. You cannot avoid him, he watches, he listens and he knows.

    His not a hunter. He is the hunter.
     
  10. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ok...
     
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  11. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    and no he doesn't listen, he asked me a few weeks ago how old I was: I told him I was 17. He keeps calling me a 13 yr old.
     
  12. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So how do you know so much about them? You read it off boxrec and just take its word that their the greatest fights of all time?
     
  13. KeedCubano

    KeedCubano Read my posts in a Jamaican accent Full Member

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    I don't think you get it.
     
  14. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    The Morlocks doesn't sleep. He waits.
     
  15. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe close to 60 yrs of studying the sport. Being at the fights. In the gyms. Talking to those there. READING! LISTENING to those who knew. Certainly not by pretending I was the Boda Zefa of boxing at age 13 1/2. Boxrec? Lolololololol. You are boxings Justin Beiber. From now on just call you the Biebs.
     
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