What's the greatest performance in Boxing history?

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  1. BoxingDialogue

    BoxingDialogue Active Member Full Member

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    A few that come to mind are Chavez vs Rosario, Floyd vs Corrales, Ali vs Liston 1 and Pacquiao vs Hatton.
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    There's so many to chose from I'll give a top 5 and a long list of great LHW performances
    1. Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams
    2. Ray Robinson vs Gene Fulmer 2
    3. Tommy Hearns vs Roberto Duran
    4. Roy Jones Jr vs Ron Amundsen
    5. Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali 1
    At LHW, you have

    Ezzard Charles vs Archie Moore 1
    Ezzard Charles vs Lloyd Marshall 3
    Ezzard Charles vs Jimmy Bivins 3
    Archie Moore vs Yvon Durrele 2
    Archie Moore vs Lloyd Marshall 2
    Gene Tunney vs Georges Carpentier
    Gene Tunney vs Harry Greb 4
    Bob Foster vs Eddie Cotton
    Bob Foster vs Dick Tiger
    Micheal Spinks vs Marvin Johnson
    Michael Spinks vs Jim McDonald
    Roy Jones Jr vs Virgil Hill
    Roy Jones Jr vs Mike McCallum

    To name but a few
     
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  3. The Funny Man 7

    The Funny Man 7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll add a few to list:

    Hector Camacho vs. Bazooka Limon
    Salvador Sanchez vs. Wilfredo Gomez
    B-Hop vs. Jean Pascal
    Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake Lamotta
    Jose Napoles vs. Emile Griffith (or several other of Napoles' fights)
     
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  4. emallini

    emallini Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Mosley vs Margarito
     
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  5. Golden_Feather99

    Golden_Feather99 Active Member Full Member

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    Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks
     
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  6. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I’ll go with Louis vs. Schmeling II.
     
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  7. PernellSweetPea

    PernellSweetPea Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wow. that is a tough thing to say the best. All greats have had one or two fights which were great but I don't think one fight can be the best with all the fights we have had.
     
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  8. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This. Larry Merchant, who’s seen more live fights than most can ever dream of seeing was in awe of that fight. That would’ve been a great fight to retire on for Mosley careerwise, since he was never going to top that performance.
     
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  9. Tramell

    Tramell Hypocrites Love to Pray & Be Seen. Mathew 6:5 Full Member

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    Too many.
     
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    christpuncher Active Member banned Full Member

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    Morales v Pac 1
    Duran v Leonard 1
    Jones v Toney
    Foreman v Frazier 1
     
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  11. Ballista

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    No one mentioned Hopkins vs Trinidad.
     
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  12. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Holmes-Shavers I








    :)
     
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  13. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Jose Napoles vs Curtis Cokes. Mantequilla was on fire that night.
     
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    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Though I'm not completely sold on this myself, I imagine quite a few would say Leonard-Hagler.

    I had Hagler ahead by two points on that one, though.
     
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  15. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Way too many to pick:
    Ali vs Williams
    Roberto Duran vs DeJesus 3
    Salvador Sanchez vs Danny Lopez 1
    Mike McCallum vs Michael Watson
    Sugar Ray Leonard vs Davey Boy Green
    Marvin Hagler vs Tony Sibson
    Michael Nunn vs Frank Tate
    James Toney vs Iran Barkley
    Ricardo Lopez vs Alex Sanchez
    Pernell Whitaker vs Greg Haugen
    Thomas Hearns vs Pipino Cuevas
    Donald Curry vs Milton McCrory
     
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