Most Exciting fight to you this century

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  1. Indefatigable

    Indefatigable Active Member banned Full Member

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    F0R whatever your own reasons are. What fight just was super exciting & personally satisfying to you.

    For me nothing beat 2008 July & Margarito beating down Cotto. I found it very inspiring and still do all these years later. None other comes close.
     
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  2. Thinking Man

    Thinking Man Duke of Duende Full Member

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    What? Even now knowing Margarito had Plaster of Paris in his gloves that night? Against a class act like Cotto who later beat him fairly? Maybe exciting at the time but I get sick every time I think about that fight now.
     
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  3. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nonito Donaire vs Vic Darchinyan
     
  4. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I wouldn’t personally pick that fight either. But how do you know he had anything in his gloves that night?
     
  5. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Perfect match in my case (Margarito won me $1,500). This match and Hopkins beating Pavlik (which won me another $1,500). But lost that amount by picking Hopkins and RJJ over Calzaghe.

    The fight I didn't bet on which was a longer version of Hagler-Hearns was Diego Corrales knocking out Jose Luis Castillo. Greatest match I've ever seen on television. Everyone at my boxing party went nuts that night. A spectacle to behold and none of us will ever forget it!!
     
  6. Thinking Man

    Thinking Man Duke of Duende Full Member

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    It was the fight right before the Mosley fight where Margarito got caught, and a red irregularity was photographed at one point that no one paid attention to at the time but later was found to be similar to the look of the wraps in the Mosley pre-fight. Cotto's face was a bloody pulp that night way beyond normal fists, and the second fight between them had Cotto winning handily. It's generally accepted that Margarito had been loading his gloves for a while. Sickening.
     
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  7. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    so you have no proof? Just an assumption? I am not defending Margo or anyone and personally like Cotto more, but you got to bring more than “generally accepted” to the table
     
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  8. Showstopper97

    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    James Toney vs Vassili Jirov
     
  9. Stiches Yarn

    Stiches Yarn Active Member Full Member

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    AJ vs Klitschko or Aj vs Whyte.
     
  10. Moggy94

    Moggy94 Active Member Full Member

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    Gatti/Ward 1, Joshua/Klitschko and Brewster/Liakhovich are three that instantly come to mind.
     
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  11. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    There wasn't one for me. I got way up for the first Wilder Fury fight, was cheering when Fury got smacked down twice.
    But Wilder proved to be not even an Earnie Shavers when it came to finishing so I was left unhappy and most certainly unsatisfied.
     
  12. ChrisJS

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    Trinidad-Vargas
    Morales-Barrera I
    Vazquez-Morales III
    Marquez-Pacquaio I, II, IV
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    Ward-Gatti I
    Marquez-Barrera
    Marquez-Diaz I
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    Ward-Augustus
    Toney-Jirov
     
  13. Young Terror

    Young Terror ★ Griselda ★ Full Member

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    Morales vs Barrera I.

    Best fight ever.
     
  14. McGrain

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    Pacquiao-Marquez IV.
     
  15. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Insane fight.
     
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