The 100 Greatest Ever Boxing Matches

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by McGrain, Dec 27, 2010.


  1. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I actually can't think of a single "great fight" Tyson has ever been involved in. He was more of a spectacle than anything. His fights underwhelmed.
     
  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Douglas was a great, great fight.
     
  3. teeto

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    As we know, Tyson lost all of his great fights unfortunately, not good man not good at all.
     
  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I think you could argue for the inclusion of the Spinks fight?
     
  5. teeto

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    It's a great performance, if you could argue it on the strength of that then i suppose so, you're always going to have people disagreeing on it though i think.
     
  6. BatTheMan

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    Lol at Tyson-Bonecrusher. Kinda devalues the book. Perhaps you should sue the authour for misleading title. :D
     
  7. Il Duce

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    Leon Spinks vs Sixto Soria
    1976 Olympics,,,,,,,,178 lb. Light Heavyweight Gold Medal Fight.

    A flat-out 3-round war, where each fighter was staggered several times.
     
  8. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    That is shitty.

    I was thinking about this, I bet an average Classic forum's list would be entirely different than that of the books'.

    I bet Charles vs Johnson never made it in?
     
  9. McGrain

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    Charles makes it in for Walcott IV, the distance loss to Marciano and Louis (which I know you love GP).
     
  10. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Can't be that bad of book then. I do love that fight.

    I've seen all the Walcott vs Charles fights (or what is available of them) but I can;t remember **** about them, here I'm hearing the fourth one is good and in another thread the second one is supposed to be good, going to have to re-watch them.

    I'm just thinking now, I bet if I did a list mines would hardly tally with the books'.

    Alan Rudkin vs Walter McGowan II, Lionel Rose
    Harada vs Jofre I, Kingpetch I and II, Famechon I
    Harold Johnson vs Jones, Charles
    Arguello vs Escalara I, Kobayashi

    How many of them are in the book?
     
  11. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    100. I was itching to try to organise a list of 100 fights picked by the forum...but it would take ages and be annoying :lol:
     
  12. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Yeh, I'm thinking about it too. I actually don't think it would be that hard, it would just be narrowing them down would be the most difficult part.

    I'm gonna try do it, I probably won;t finish it but I'll give it a bash.
     
  13. RockysSplitNose

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    :lol::patsch:? Are you actually being serious?? Douglas-Tyson?? A great fight?? That was just a stinker - Tyson wasn't even there??
     
  14. Stonehands89

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    Moorer-Cooper. I love that fight. It's got it all -drama, a see-saw battle, comedy (to wit: Moorer's post fight interview).

    Speaking of Cooper. How about Mercer-Cooper?

    Cooper lost both, but for a while there, the Smoke was no joke.

    There's no film, but there are photographs of Chase-Marshall I. Those show what it was -a war that saw both men go down on their way to a draw. Booker-Williams III is another one. It was Eddie's last fight, with half his sight; and he went out right.
     
  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Pretty aswesome. I wouldn't know where to start...I mean there are so many...but let me see whatever you get, that would be cool.