Your top 5 of greatest victories in boxing?

In no order:

Duran-Leonard 1
Ali-Foreman
Jones-Toney
Schmeling-Louis 1
Charles-Moore 3

HM:

Douglas-Tyson
Pep-Saddler
Foreman-Frazier
Louis-Schmeling 2

 

Ali V Foreman is hard to top.

 

Ali vs Foreman …the boxing version of David & Goliath

 

Greb Tunney
Turpin Robinson
Fitzsimmons Corbett
Schmelling Louis
Charles Burley

I dunno.. so many man

 

In no particular order:
Ali-Foreman
Duran-Lenoard 1
Ali-Foreman
Ali-Frazer 1
Louis-Schmeling 2

 

Heres 4.


Langford v Lang
Miske v Fulton II
Louis v John Henry Lewis
Mayweather v Juan Manuel Marquez

 

In no particular order

Frazier vs Ali

Ali vs Foreman

Duran vs SRL

JMM KTFO6 Pac

Barrera vs Naz

 

Here's an old post I made for the top 3 wins in each division. Top 5 all time p4p is tricky. I'll have to think on that.

 

Duran - Barkley
Pep - Saddler
Barrera - Naz
Duran - Leonard
Frazier - Ali

Honorable Mentions - Morales / Paq , LaMotta / Robinson and Schmeling / Louis.

 

Great thread and great choices. Kudos to all of you!

 

Excellent choices

 

Ali over Foreman.
Douglas over Tyson.
Duran over Leonard.
Frazier over Ali.
Turpin over Robinson.

 

What's the criteria? The "greatest" as in a great fighter looking absolutely awesome, well-night untouchable against another great fighter - a la perhaps Clay vs. Liston I (minus the vaseline episode?)? Or "the greatest" as in any schmo overcoming seemingly impossible odds to score an upset against a great fighter a la Douglas vs. Tyson?

Either way, my #1 is Duran beating Leonard in Montreal. I also think the fight wasn't as close as the judges had it. I recall virtually no rounds where Leonard decisively won even.

An honorable mention that is seldom mentioned is Harada vs. Jofre I. Yes, unlike Duran vs. Leonard I, this wasn't a decisive win, and many in fact have Jofre winning (though I didn't). But Harada was a natural flyweight moving up to fight arguably the greatest bantamweight ever, and it wasn't like Jofre was on his legs. In fact, after his 2nd loss to Harada, Jofre never lost again - and fought 10 more years, winning the featherweight title, beating no slouches in Legra and Saldivar.

Harada I feel is criminally under-rated by most Western fans, partly due to two flagrantly bad decisions against Kingpetch (in their second fight) and against Famechon. Harada would've been undefeated as a flyweight but for the Kingpetch "loss" and a three-weight titlist, the first to go flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight, but for the Famechon "loss."

But for those two atrocious, likely corrupt, decisions, nobody with half a brain would debate who the best Asian fighter of all-time was.

 

Instead of counting this as a win for Chang, why not list the rematch, when Chang actually won? Or Amado Ursua going to Zapata's home country and knocking him out in the second round?