My favourite and my picks for the best are completely different. My favourites are, in any order: Saad vs Pops I Watson vs Benn Charles vs Marshall II Hagler vs Duran Morales vs Pacquiao I Lots of different reasons as to why, but it basically comes down to seeing my favourite fighters either at their best of their most entertaining.
I was at that Marquez-Diaz I fight in Houston. Definitely among my favorite live fights/moments in boxing. I’ll fill you in about how cool the weekend was I’m PM sometime.
That's the correct answer, it's impossible. I might list 5 but then watch some on you tube, fights that I'd forgotten and it'd change. Being a Roberto Duran fan the Barkley fight is epic, the Foreman Lyle explosion is the greatest slugfest in heavyweight history. There are just sooo many to select from.
Duran - Leonard 1 is way out for me as well. Morales - Pac 1 Duran - Barkley Duran - Dejesus 2 Struggling to pick the last one. Sanchez - Nelson perhaps
It’s not a definitive top 5, but Corrales-Castillo 1 is my favorite Corrales-Castillo 1 Trinidad-Vargas Barrera-Morales 1 Ali-Frazier 3 Robinson-Gatti 1
Marciano-Walcott I... Hagler-Hearns... Dempsey-Firpo... Marciano-Moore...(round 6).. Ali-Frazier I...
Top of my head? Barrera-Morales 1 Pacquiao-Morales 1 De La Hoya-Vargas Graziano-Zale (any of them) Duran-Leonard 1 Would need to think more and could probably come up with a whole new list
I'd love to do that, but in Watson's case, that fight ended up in him getting brain damage so it doesn't work.
That's why I don't have fights like that on my list - because I can't be completely objective about that. McClellan-Benn is worthy of a place and when I watched that one at the time, I was screaming the house down for Benn but I think I've only seen it once since then. It was a great fight but I can't watch it.
Leonard vs Hearns #1 Leonard vs Duran Montreal. Pryor vs Arguello #1 Leonard vs Benitez Ali vs Frazier Fight of the century
Hard to pick just 5, but looking through this thread I'm generating a huge list of fights to go look up and watch.
Durelle/ Moore 1 Kotey/Lopez 1 Duran /Lampkin Gomez/Pintor Basilio/DeMarco 1 Prob lots more really...
1. Saad Muhammud vs Yacqui Lopez 2 2. Roberto Duran vs Estaban DeJeus 2 3. Bert Cooper vs Evander Holyfield 4 .Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali 1 5. Felix Trinidad vs Fernando Vargas Honorable Mention to James "Buddy" McGirt's paint job on Simon Brown.