2003 is arguably the best year in boxing

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  1. ILikeBoxingForRealz

    ILikeBoxingForRealz Active Member Full Member

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    The fights were endless. We had:
    V. Klitschko vs L. Lewis
    Gatti vs Ward 3
    De La Hoya vs Mosely 2
    RJJr. vs A. Tarver
    J. Toney vs V. Jirov (unbelievable cruiser weight war)
    W. Klitschko vs C. Sanders
    M. Pacquiao vs MA Barrera
    RJJr. vs J. Ruiz (heavyweight)
    P. Spadafora vs L. Dorin (another brutal war)

    What a year it was.
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    1982. There is no other answer.
     
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  3. blackfella96

    blackfella96 Active Member Full Member

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    1990 got a nice list
     
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  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    RJJ wasn`t very good v Tarver, the Ruiz fight was boring, Lewis was really ragged v Vitali, Wlad hadn`t been smoothed out by Steward yet.
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Fighters in 1982 were quicker than in 2003, they were killers.
     
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    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    You should see fighters in BC 230, those were the real killers
     
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  7. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    80,s best ever...
     
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  8. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    1986 is my choice ( i,m getting old )
     
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  12. NoNeck

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    It also had Toney--Holyfield and Rafa Marquez--Tim Austin. Also Leterlough--Richard Hall.
     
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  13. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Boy, you wrong as hell. 2003 ain't even the year of its own decade.

    2007 gave us:

    • Israel "El Magnifico" Vázquez Castañeda vs. Rafael Márquez Méndez I & II
    • Joseph William Calzaghe vs. Mikkel Kessler
    • Sakio Bika vs. Jaidon Codrington (not as epic as Izzy vs. Rafa nor as technical as the super middleweight unification, and fought far below the skill level of both - yet this Contender season finale was an underrated gem... and I was there, fifth row! :))
    • Michael Alan Katsidis vs. Graham Earl
    • Fernando Montiel Martínez vs. Luis Meléndez Álvarez
    • Jermain Taylor vs. Kelly Robert Pavlik I
    • Oscar de La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
    • Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares vs. Jorge Armando Arce Armenta
    • Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Richard John Hatton
    • Librado Andrade vs. Yusaf Mack
    • Ruslan Shamilovich Chagaev vs. Nikolai Sergeevich Valuev

    ...and more I'm surely forgetting. It was a special time. Great mix of 'big events' and barn-burners that would hold up in any era. :thumbsup:

    2003 was nice, unmistakably - but twas no '07. :nono:
     
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  14. ILikeBoxingForRealz

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    Being 35 goin on 36 yrs old, I was born in '84, so I respect people's choice for the 80's. Growing up, I watched replays of the 80s and by the 90s I was off. The Hearns, duran, leonard, haglar, sanchez, tyson, evander are all very much respected by me. Evander is proly my all time fav. Which is why when you said '86, it reminded me of when in 1986, evander won his first world title at cruiserweight vs Qawi. And Tyson becoming the face of the heavies with a KO of Berbick. 2003 jus hit home with me cuz I was 18 19 yrs old and jus at the peak of my love for the sport and watching those fight gave me goosebumps. Still do today. Toney vs Jirov was a classic. Lampley and Steward called a gem
     
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  15. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    My computer crashed a bit ago with the most up to date list but this is a version I posted in late 2017 with a list of the best fights for each year from 2001 to 2017.
    2001
    Mickey Ward vs Emmanuel Augustus
    Francisco Bojado vs Juan Carlos Rubio
    Naseem Hamed vs Marco Antonio Barrera
    Julio Cesar Gonzalez vs. Julian Letterlough
    2002
    Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward I
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales II
    Leonard Dorin vs Raul Balbi
    2003
    Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward III
    Acelino Freitas vs Jorge Barrios
    Michael Gomez vs Alex Arthur
    James Toney vs Vassily Jirov
    In-Jin Chi vs Michael Brodie I
    Vitali Klitschko vs Lennox Lewis
    2004
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales III
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez I
    Felix Trinidad vs Ricardo Mayorga
    2005
    Corrales vs Castillo I
    Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao I
    Ricky Hatton vs Kostya Tszyu
    Jorge Arce vs Hussein Hussein
    Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Torres
    2006
    Somsak Sithchatchawal vs Mahyar Monshipour
    John Duddy vs Yori Boy Campas
    Sergei Liakhovich vs Lamon Brewster
    Jamie Moore vs Matthew Macklin
    Jean Marc Mormeck vs O'Neil Bell I
    2007
    Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez I & II
    Michael Katsidis vs Graham Earl
    Sakio Bika vs Jaidon Codrington
    Kelly Pavlik vs Jermaine Taylor
    2008
    Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez III
    Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito I
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez II
    Rogers Mtagwa vs Tomas Villa
    2009
    Bernard Dunne vs Ricardo Cordoba I
    Juan Manuel Marquez vs Juan Diaz
    Paul Williams vs Sergio Martinez I
    2010
    Ivan Calderon vs Giovani Segura I
    Juan Manuel Marquez vs Michael Katsidis
    Humberto Soto vs Urbano Antillon
    2011
    Pawel Wolak vs Delvin Rodriguez
    Hernan Marquez vs Luis Concepcion I
    Akira Yaegashi vs Pornsawan Porpramook
    Marcos Maidana vs Erik Morales
    Victor Ortiz vs Andre Berto
    2012
    Juan Manuel Marquez vs Manny Pacquiao IV
    Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado I
    Robert Guerrero vs Andre Berto
    Orlando Salido vs Juan Manuel Lopez II
    Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado II
    Roman Gonzalez vs Juan Francisco Estrada
    2013
    Tim Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov
    Giovani Segura vs Hernan Marquez
    Guillermo Jones vs Denis Lebedev
    Omar Figueroa vs Nihito Arakawa
    2014
    Monty Meza Clay vs Alan Herrera
    Orlando Salido vs Terdsak Kokietgym
    Lucas Matthysse vs John Molina
    Francisco Rodriguez Jr vs Katsunari Takayama
    2015
    Orlando Salido vs Roman Martinez I & II
    Ola Afolabi vs Victor Ramirez
    Francisco Vargas vs Takashi Miura
    Nathan Cleverly vs Andrzej Fonfara
    Marco Huck vs Krzysztof Glowacki
    2016
    Orlando Salido vs Francisco Vargas
    Carl Frampton vs Leo Santa Cruz I
    Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter
    2017
    Klitschko vs Joshua
    Gonzalez vs Rungvisai I
    Santa Cruz vs Frampton II
     
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