Best light-heavyweight fights of all time?

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  1. Bigplatts

    Bigplatts Member Full Member

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    What are your favourite light-heavyweight fights ever, or at least one's you consider the best. I would go for:

    Archie Moore vs Yvonne Durrell
    Dick Tiger vs Bob Foster
    Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson 1 2 & Yaqui Lopez 1 2
    Nathan Cleverly vs Andrzej Fonfara
    Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward 1
    Artur Beterbiev vs Oleksandr Gvodzky & Anthony Yarde & Dmitry Bivol 1 2

    Also what are some underrated fights that aren't as well known. Don't know how underseen these are but I'd list:

    Merqui Sosa vs Prince Charles Williams
    Roy Jones Jr. vs Mike McCallum
    Bernard Hopkins vs Winky Wright
    Joshua Buatsi vs Craight Richards & Willy Hutchinson

    Could put together a megalist of fights in the division, including obscure ones that people might not know.
     
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  2. Philosopher

    Philosopher Active Member Full Member

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    All of the Andries v Harding fights...
     
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  3. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Victor Galindez vs Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

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  4. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver 1 is an underrated fight. Lots of exciting moments in it.
     
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  5. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Add in Buatsi vs. Callum Smith. Cracker of a fight.
     
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  7. JabMachina

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    Tomasz Adamek vs Paul Briggs 1 & 2 - should be added.
     
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    Yes excellent high quality fight, I had Tarver winning.
     
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    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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  11. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Norkus-Nardico wasn't a light heavyweight fight. Norkus was a heavyweight.
     
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  12. Dangerwood84

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    Merqui Sosa v Ken Bowman was a cracker.
     
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  13. Dangerwood84

    Dangerwood84 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I remember it well.
     
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  14. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Both fights between Adamek and Paul Briggs were awesome.
    Those two fights took a massive toll on Briggs's he was never the same after he suffered neurological damage and it was a contributing factor to what happened in his fight with Danny Green years later. As a young bloke I was actually in attendance to Brigg's first fight back after the second Adamek fight it was against some journeyman on the Lovemore N'Dou Ben Rabah under card in Sydney Brigg's looked completely shot and won a lackluster decision. It just goes to show the toll that some of these wars take on fighters.
     
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  15. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Good call !
    Also liked Andries vs Alex Blanchard and the Thomas Hearns fight
     
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