Morales v barrera 1 Ali v frazier 1 and 3 Hagler v Hearns Duran v Leonard 1 Eubanks v Benn 1 (was a kid in awe and really got me into the sport) There are far too many and I could easily change the list However, Ali v Frazier stays, as does eubanks and Benn for nostalgia
My favorite fights always had to include my favorite fighters. Preferably, but not always, winning. Hatton vs Tszyu Calzaghe vs Kessler Hearns vs Leonard I Benn vs G-man (if I can separate it from the aftermath) Duran vs De Jesus II I also have a special place in my heart for Duran vs Barkley.
Well I'll go with my best first. Since I'm doing a top 100, I've settled on my first 3 as: Chacón/Limón 4 Moore/Durrele 1 Ortega/Paret1 Franklin/Johnson 1 Vásquez/Márquez 3 However my favourite fights are: Johnson/Franklin 1 González/Letterlough GGG/Jacobs Charles/Marshall Morales/Barrera 1 Edit: oh bollocks, I forgot it was a top 5, not 3.
Oh my god. Gonzalez/Letterlough was the definition of a knockdown, drag out. I haven’t watched that fight in years. Great pick.
Here's how I had it two years ago. Not much has changed. 1.Ali vs Frazier 3 2.Arguello vs Pryor 1 3.Archie Moore vs Yvonne Durelle 1 4.Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez 3 5.Bobby Chacon vs Bazooka Limon 4 6.Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward 1 7.Matthew Franklin vs Marvin Johnson 1 8.Robinson vs LaMotta 6 9.Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield 1 10.Paul Banke vs Daniel Zaragoza 2 11.Pawel Wolak vs Delvin Rodriguez 1 12.Erik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera 1 13.Corrales vs Castillo 1 14.Hagler vs Hearns 15.Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez 2 16.Ezzard Charles vs Jersey Joe Walcott 3 17.Merqui Sosa vs Prince Charles Williams 1 18.Willie Pep vs Sandy Saddler 4 19.Rocky Marciano vs Jersey Joe Walcott 1 20.Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura 1
It's a good exercise, creating a top 100. I remember doing something similar years ago. I went through all the Ring Fight of the Years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_magazine_Fight_of_the_Year It's a good list but it's been criticized for being too American-centric; so I created a thread in the Classic for Fight of the Year nominations that only featured non-American fighters. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/foty-anti-freedom-edition.533615/ Then I watched the 1996 list of 100 Greatest Title Fights https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_100_Greatest_Title_Fights_of_All-Time Lots of good stuff in those. You know what a good resource for you might be? Right about the time I joined here, the moderator Rumsfeld was doing a best fights of the decades survey down in classic for several decades. He asked everyone in the Classic forum to rate their top ten fights of the decade and then compiled a weighted list based on points for how high on their list a fight was and how many times it was suggested. Here's two but I think he also did the 80s. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...-10-fights-1990-1999-deadline-march-6.457385/ https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/decades-surveys-1-2000-2009-survey-closed-chart-added.454783/
