Best fights of the 1960's?

What would your top 5 or 10 of the best fights in the 1960s look like?

 

Small list. Bad memory I am sorry.

Harada vs Rose
Harada vs Jofre 1-2 forget which one I liked more...
Famechon vs Legra....
Griffith vs Nino (Forget which bout...)
Griffith vs Tiger 2 (I think)
Jose Napoles vs Cokes 1 (Probably)


Yeah not a great list by any mark. I forget when a lot of fights happen and I think I have a bit of a blind spot apart from a few select fighters in the era because I am lame. Just thought I'd try and have a crack.

 

You’re probably thinking of Tiger vs Griffith 1 ….both guys were in their primes and a much closer fight

 

They were closer to their primes ….let me correct myself

 

Floyd Patterson vs George Chuvalo
Muhammad Ali vs Doug Jones
Doug Jones vs Zora Folley 2
D!ck Tiger vs Henry Hank (Classic! Highly Recommended)
Florentino Fernandez vs Gaspar Ortega
Eder Jofre vs Jose Medel 1 (Best Of The Decade)
Gene Fullmer vs Florentino Fernandez
Benny Paret vs Emile Griffith Trilogy
Joe Frazier vs Manuel Ramos (Amazing Short Slugfest!)
Jose Stable vs Vince Shomo
Chartchai Chionoi vs Efren Torres 1
Charley Scott vs Gaspar Ortega 1

 

Gaspar Ortega vs Benny Kid Paret I don't know if it was the 1st or 2nd fight, but this was an amazing 10 round slugfest, even it was the 1st fight. It was right at the end of 1959 anyway, literally few months before 60s.

There was a few entertaining Heavyweight fights aswell like.

Patterson vs Johansson 3
Quarry vs Frazier 1
Patterson vs Chuvalo
Patterson vs Quarry 1 and 2

Few more recommendations.

Howard Winstone vs Vincente Saldivar 2
Gaspar Ortega vs Charley Scott
Bob Foster vs Frank DePaula

 

Florentino Fernandez' bouts with Rory Calhoun and Jose Gonzalez were tremendous. Also, so many of Gaspar Ortega's bouts. Aside from the ones mentioned I would also mention his bout with Federico Thompson.

 

Glad to see Floyd get some love. For the flak he gets, he did give us some amazing fights against accredited contenders.

 

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Hadn’t seen the Cokes-Hayward fight. Just watched it today - you could definitely see the size difference between them. Cokes just couldn’t handle Hayward’s physicality and power.

 

Here’s an attempt at a chronological long list and then a top 5 shortlist:

1960:
Benny Paret v Charley Scott 2
Benny Paret v Luis Federico Thompson 2
Jose Becerra v Alphonse Halimi 2
Eder Jofre v Jose Medel 1

1961:
Floyd Patterson v Ingemar Johansson 3
Gene Fullmer v Benny Paret

1962:
Emile Griffith v Benny Paret 3
Joey Giambra v Fiorentino Fernandez

1963:
Muhammad Ali v Doug Jones
Sugar Ramos v Davey Moore
Jose Medel v Fighting Harada 1
Dick Tiger v Henry Hank
Pone Kingpetch v Fighting Harada 2

1964:
Sugar Ramos v Floyd Robertson
Vicente Saldivar v Ismael Laguna
Jose Stable v Vince Shomo
Stanley Kitten Hayward v Curtis Cokes

1965:
Floyd Patterson v George Chuvalo
Fighting Harada v Eder Jofre 1
Jose Medel v Jesus Pimental

1966:
Jose Torres v Eddie Cotton
Joe Frazier v Oscar Bonavena 1

1967:
Nino Benvenuti v Emile Griffith 1
Vicente Saldivar v Howard Winstone 2
Chartchai Chionoi v Walter McGowan

1968:
Chartchai Chionoi v Efren Torres 1
Lionel Rose v Fighting Harada
Dick Tiger v Frankie DePaula
Alan Rudkin v Walter McGowan 2

1969:
Joe Frazier v Jerry Quarry 1
Fighting Harada v Johnny Famechon 1

Top 5:

1. Chionoi-Torres 1
2. Harada-Jofre 1
3. Saldivar-Winstone 2
4. Becerra-Halimi 2
5. Jofre-Medel 1

 

Great list mate.

Is the Paret vs Scott 2 fight out there?

Never seen it before.

 

I have it marked that I’ve seen it but I can’t find it online.

 

Here's a couple of more barn-burners worth seeking out :

Eduardo Lausse v Marcel Pigou - June 17, 1960
Jorge Jose Fernandez v Denny Moyer - April 8, 1961
Denny Moyer v Ted Wright - June 9, 1962
Willie Pastrano v Wayne Thornton - March 23, 1963
Carl Olson v Wayne Thornton - March 27, 1964

 

Damn good list.