Which fights in boxing history was more impressive than Ali-Foreman?

Sugar Ray Leonard v Hitman Hearns Fight One.

 

Lyle vs Foreman...down goes George, down goes George (unbelievable).

 

NONE

 

Honeyghan vs Curry
Douglas vs Tyson
F Randall vs Chavez

 

Douglas Tyson

 

Joshua-Wlad,Joshua-Ruiz 1,Wilder-Fury 2,Vitaly-Sanders,Norton-Holms and many others.

 

Mainly depends on how much you care about a certain fighter

 

Probably none. Foreman v moorer only close one for me. Foreman himself pretty much done the unbelievable. From his first comeback fight no one would have predicted him ending up with a world title.

And also ali v liston. A third choice for me. Liston was a lot better than hes remembered nowadays.

Tyson v douglas was more a guy that wasn,t training getting his due reward for it. Mayweather v pacman was a guy that waited on the other dipping. Ruiz v joshua...people predicted this happening to joshua at some point from the start. Fury v wilder was better the first one especially because of the lay off. But wilder like joshua has had doubters for years. Even then i,d go fury v wilder one as fourth anf fury v klitchko in the top ten as well. All just my imo.

 

Hard to say. Depends on what you mean by impressive I guess. Someone above mentioned Buster vs Tyson, and while it is a much bigger upset, it is fairly well known Tyson wasn't really training or focused so for me, I'd place a higher value on a fight where I was sure that 2 prime fighters were going at it during their best.
Ali- Foreman is in that category I think but it was also before my time.
Mayweather Pacquiao is not in that realm as both were not in their prime.

For me... either of the Duran - Leonard fights.

 

And now George fights back !

As one who remembers it, Douglas v Tyson was not a bigger upset than Ali v Foreman.

 

Not many

Two all time greats for their division

It was an upset

It was a huge event

Ali is arguably the most famous boxer who ever lived and this was his signature win

Some fights are upsets, some have a similar magnitude and others have two greats. Not sure any meet all that same criteria

Maybe hagler vs Leonard

 

Holyfield vs Bowl (first fight)

 

Hagler vs Leonard was pretty impressive, Leonard to come off retirement for 3 years and beat Hagler although controversial is up there

 

My first thought. He had one fight in five years, looked ordinary and was pretty much a junkie during his retirement.
He also was a career welterweight fighting arguably the greatest ever middleweight.