And the ball has rang to start the voting for Round 12: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-12-of-all-time.651019/
When this wonderful series is over, I think I'm going to attempt to pull together, for my own amusement, a division-by-division list of great rounds.
Our Round 12 winner is Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier III. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-12-of-all-time.651019/ Round 13 voting will commence when I can put a thread together.
Round 13 voting is underway: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-13-of-all-time-please-vote.651168/
Have some things to do tonight so I’ve gotten Round 14 voting up and underway: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-14-of-all-time-please-vote.651331/
By the narrowest of margins (one vote), our Greatest Round 13 of all time winner is ... Ruben Olivares-Kazuyoshi Kanazawa II: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-13-of-all-time-please-vote.651168/
And the results are in for Round 14. The winner is: Bobby Chacon-Rafael “Bazooka” Limon IV: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-14-of-all-time-please-vote.651331/ I will get Round 15 up sometime today, probably in the evening.
The bell has rung and voting is underway for Round 15: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-15-of-all-time-please-vote.651555/
Our Round 15 winner: Larry Holmes-Ken Norton https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/greatest-round-15-of-all-time-please-vote.651555/ Sometime soon, hopefully later today or this evening, I will post a final thread with all the individual round winners and we can vote on the greatest (completed) round of all time.
Hi gang, I thank everyone for participating in this. I have decided not to do a Round vs. Round voting ‘tournament’ pitting one round against another and having the winners advance. it would take up a lot of time and occupy the forum for another fairly long stretch. If polls allowed 15 spots I’d do it because it would be just creating one thread with each round embedded and then turning it loose for everyone to vote on. I’m going to turn my energies into participating in the pinned thread @Rumsfeld ranking the top 15 in each of the original eight weight classes and a top 25 overall. I’ve toyed with it by putting some of my easier top choices in but it’s going to take a lot of research to do it justice (and some of those I’ve plugged in may change). I urge everyone who hasn’t already to check that out and take part. If anyone else wants to take the rounds the forum has voted on and do something with them, they have my blessing. Or if someone wants to take it in a different direction, that’s OK by me too. Once again, I thank everyone for participating in something that has been helping me get through this strange and (mostly) horrible year.
Thanks @Saintpat for this series - it was great. For what it's worth, of the winning rounds, I'd have voted my top 3 as: 1. Saad-Lopez 2 round 8 2. Holmes-Norton round 15 3. Chavez-Taylor round 10
These were my picks during this series. Round 1: Hagler-Hearns Round 2: Norris-Waters Round 3: Benn-Logan Round 4: Foreman-Lyle Round 5: Avelar-Vasquez Round 6: Ortiz-Berto I Round 7: Green-Price Round 8: Muhammad-Lopez II Round 9: Jofre-Medel I Round 10: Chavez-Taylor I Round 11: Watson-Eubank II Round 12: Gomez-Pintor Round 13: Olivares-Kanazawa II Round 14: Chacón-Limón IV Round 15: Edwards-Limon And to be honest, I can't help but feel a little disappointed by some (rounds 14&15). But this has been a great thing, Pat. Thanks. I think my stand out few would be: Avelar vs Vasquez, R5 Saad vs Lopez II, R8 Watson vs Eubank II, R11 Some heavy competition.
These were mine: R1. Arguello-Pryor 1 R2. Rosario-Randall 2 R3. Gomez-Pintor R4: Foreman-Lyle R5: Avelar-Vaquez R6: Hagler-Mugabi R7: Ramos-Ramos R8: Saad-Lopez 2 R9: Jofre-Medel 1 R10: Chavez-Taylor 1 R11: Holmes-Weaver 1 R12: Gomez-Pintor R13: Olivares-Kanazawa 2 R14: Chacon-Limon 4 R15: Holmes-Norton If I was picking only three from that list, I think my order would be: 1. Saad-Lopez 2, round 8 2. Jofre-Medel 1, round 9 3. Gomez-Pintor, round 3
I thought of a great round 6 the other day that I was convinced would have won it had it been nominated... and then completely forgot it again! So @Saintpat - just thinking that for posterity at least, if any one thinks of any complete rounds that got missed from all the nominations then they could still post them here. In the meantime, if I think of that round 6 again, I'll post it here. Loved this series... oh, and it absolutely pissed on that abomination of a programme called "The 15 greatest rounds of all time" claiming to do more or less the same thing that came out about 30 years ago: This content is protected
Been thinking about my actual list if the restrictions were lifted and I could add any I thought of after nominationa. It'd probably look like this: Round 1: Mancini-Frias Round 2: Norris-Waters Round 3: Arbachakov-Kittikasem I Round 4: Foreman-Lyle Round 5: Avelar-Vasquez Round 6: Griffith-Paret III Round 7: Green-Price Round 8: Franklin-Lopez II Round 9: Jofre-Medel I Round 10: Castillo-Corrales Round 11: Eubank-Watson II Round 12: Gomez-Pintor Round 13: Olivares-Kanazawa II Round 14: Chacon-Limon IV Round 15: Edwards-Limon
