Your 5 favorite fights ever?

Hearns vs Duran
Hagler vs Minter
Tyson vs Berbick
Holyfield vs Foreman
Cooney vs Lyle

today these are the one I can think of.Tomorrow or next week it may be a different 5

 

In no order.
Duran v Lampkin
Lester Ellis v Barry Michael
Gomez v Pintor
Conteh v Aumada
Napoles v Menetrey
Olivares v Rose
are a few of my favs...

 

Chacon-Limon 4
Saad-Lopez 2
Saad-Johnson 2
Morales-Barrera 1
Sanchez-Nelson

 

Leonard vs Hearns I
McCallum vs Toney I
Chavez vs Meldrick I
Bowe vs Holyfield I
De La Hoya vs Quartey

 

1) FOTC
2) Duran vs Leonard (1980 Montreal)
3) Hagler vs Hearns
4) Leonard vs Hearns (1981 Las Vegas)
5) Ali vs Foreman

 

In not specific order,

Trinidad-Vargas
Morales-Barerra I
Tyson-Holyfield I
De La Hoya-Mosley I
Katsidis-Casamayor (1st fight I ever watched live in attendance)

 

Trinidad vs Vargas
Pacquiao vs Marquez 1
Chavez vs Taylor 1
Gomez vs Zarate
Fury vs Wilder 3

not the absolute best fights I’ve seen.Just my personal favourites.

 

Basilio / Robinson 1
Moore / Durelle 1
Briscoe / Valdez 2
Gomez / Pintor
Palomino / Green
many, many, more but them for now.
stay safe fellow posters.

 

Moore vs durrelle 1 was unbelievable.

 

Any fight involving Gene Fullmer. He wasn't artistic but the man was never in a dull fight, although admittedly his fights with Carmen Basilio were too one-sided to be entertaining. Gene was too strong for an aging Carmen. But check out Fullmer vs. Giardello. A barnburner!

 

Hagler-Hearns because it shows up on my YouTube suggestions.

Elisha Obed-Tony Gardner for the 154 lb title because it was so obscure and i talked Tony into letting me upload his personal copy onto YouTube.

Cooney destroying Lyle and Norton. Because what could have been?

More than any other fight though, i watch Bert Cooper mug "Lethal Weapon" Joe Savage for pure comic value. Never, ever gets old.

 

1. Aaron Pryor v Alexis Arguello 1 (1982)
2. Bobby Chacon v Rafael Limon 4 (1982)
3. Matthew Saad Muhammad v Yaqui Lopez 2 (1980)
4. Bobby Chacon v Cornelius Boza-Edwards 2 (1983)
5. Wilfredo Gomez v Lupe Pintor (1982)

That’s my all-time top 5, although I have changed the order a little bit and also swapped one of the fights since I did this three years ago. But I don’t think I’ve seen five better fights than those.

My current favourites would look a bit different to the list above, though, because I’ve seen these five on multiple occasions going back 30-plus years so I don’t get quite the same buzz from watching them now unless I have taken a long break between viewings.

 

Tyson vs Ruddock
Hearns vs SRL 2
Hagler vs Mugabi
Julio cesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor
donald Curry vs Mike McCallum

 

BHOP vs Trinidad
Braxton vs Saad 1
Camacho vs Leonard
Foreman vs Moorer
Mosley vs Mayorga

 

Marciano Vs Moore
Calzaghe vs Lacy
Usyk Vs Fury 1
Tyson Vs Holmes
Frazier Vs Ali 1