Fight of the Year 2017

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  1. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon.

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    Did we not do this two months ago? I don't remember us doing this in the middle of the year like we usually do. Usually there's a couple of different threads trying to pick the early contenders. Anyway, I'm a lazy lazy man and I don't want to have to sift through the 25 thousand fights that happen every year to find something to watch; so could somebody do me a solid and tell me what I've missed out on?

    The only ones that come to mind immediately when I think good dramatic sustained action are Joshua vs Klitschko, Santa Cruz vs Frampton 2, and Gonzalez vs Rungvisai. Was there anything in Eastern Europe or Asia that I should be aware of, or some classic domestic scrap in the UK? Did I suffer a massive head wound and forget something major? If I did, then please write a comment below to tell me what's up.
     
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  2. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    Klitschko/Joshua easily.....
     
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  3. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Personally I thought Frampton-Santa Cruz was awful, I lean Roman-Sor Rungvisai.
     
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  4. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Some honorable mentions and possible contenders you forgot about.

    Miura-Roman
    Valdez-Marriaga
    Benavidez-Medina
    Corrales-Castellanos
    DeGale-Jack
    Lemieux-Stevens
    Baranchyk-Ramos
    Pacquiao-Horn
    Kudryashov-Durodola II
    Breazeale-Ugonoh
    Golovkin-Jacobs
    Gvozdyk-Gonzalez
    Berchelt-Vargas
    Khytrov-Aleem
    Taylor-Davies
    Eggington-Rodriguez
    Groves-Chudinov
    Eggington-Malignaggi
     
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  5. jquest

    jquest Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Brook-Spence, Liam Smith-Liam Williams, Price-Hammer (No joke, this was fun to watch and competitive)
     
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  6. IKSAB

    IKSAB Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    My favorites this year so far:

    Jack-DeGale (although I felt Jack was robbed)
    Breazeale-Ugonoh
    Joshua-Klitschko
     
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  7. Max Thunder

    Max Thunder Proud member of the Cult of Vikings Full Member

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    Helenius-Orlov. Legendary.
     
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  8. khaosai galaxi

    khaosai galaxi Superbad Full Member

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    The fight of the year will be this month when Connor knocks out Mayweather with a superman punch lol
     
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  9. Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris Obsessed with Boxing

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    You should check out Tatsuya Fukuhara vs Moises Calleros, it happened in february in Japan and it was for the WBO interim strawweight belt.
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  10. Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris Obsessed with Boxing

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    Mine is Joshua vs Klitschko and close second is Gonzalez vs Rungvisai I.
     
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  11. Blancrabello

    Blancrabello Member Full Member

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    I thought the Rungvisai fight was a belter. Don't often get such non stop high-quality action. Look forward to seeing that dude again.
     
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  12. dellboi94

    dellboi94 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I really enjoyed Jack vs DeGale.
     
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  13. Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris Obsessed with Boxing

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    Too bad he will be unconscious after a brutal beating by Gonzalez :smoking:
     
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  14. Tarking Rubbish

    Tarking Rubbish Member Full Member

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    Got to be Klit-AJ for me. The enormity of the event, the venue, the fans and the fight itself.
     
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  15. BoxingABC1

    BoxingABC1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Breazeale/Ugonoh or Gonzalez/Rungvisai. Breazeale/Ugonoh was more entertaining than AJ/WK for me
     
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