What were your most anticipated fights ever?

1. Ali- Frazier I
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8. Ali- Foreman
9. Leonard- Duran
10. Leonard- Hagler

This is how big the first Ali-Frazier fight was. There has been NOTHING since to even compare to the hype and anticipation.

 

Vasquez vs. Marquez 3.

 

Johnson-Jeffries must have come close?

 

Calzaghe V Kessler
Benn V McClellan
Hagler V Hearns

 

Lewis/Tyson
Tyson/Holyfield
Hopkins/Pavlik
Hopkins/De La Hoya

 

since i was a kid......

any doomed to fail frank bruno title fight. apart from the one he won v mccall, by then we'd sort of lost interest.

mcguigan v pedroza
benn v eubank 1 and 2 .
watson v eubank 2
benn v mclellan
hamed v barrera
lewis v holyfield
hatton v tszyu
hatton v mayweather
calzaghe v kessler

 

Recently, I was very excited about last nights fight! Vic-Mijares really got me excited, the stylistic clash was going to be intriguing. The matchup dumbfounded me in the end! Still can't believe how one-sided it was now.

But Hatton-Mayweather got me worked up more than anything! I'm not afraid to admit it, I have Hatton at least a 30% chance of winning, simply based on the fact that I thought he was gonna' land one of those brutal left body hooks on Mayweather after rounds of rounds of tasting the Sweet Science.

Ended up it was just the latter, but still....I pissed like five times before the fight, missing Blue Moon and the the tale of the tape!!!

 

Calzaghe-Kessler too, as I travelled to Cardiff to see it! Absolutely fantastic fight, freat seats, and we were sat right next to Bradley Pryce and Gavin Rees for a while....they were slaughtered though, and went off to get more drink!

 

Tyson vs Lewis
Pac-Morales 2
Pac-JMM 2
PBF-DLH
Pac-DLH

 

for me
V.Klitschko - Lewis
V.Klitschko - Peter
Miranda - Abraham 2
Calzaghe - Kessler
Calzaghe - Hopkins
Marquez - Vasquez 3

 

i`ve only got into boxing in the last few years so.......

calzaghe-hopkins (first american fight for one of my favourite fighters, and against a legend. Plus because all the haters it was a big moment)

cotto-margarito (no need to explain this one)

For pure hype any of the last 2 mayweathers were massive.......

 

Bruno and Tyson (poor frank)
benn and eubank both
All khans early fights (anticipated cos had good earner on early knockouts - later switched to khan getting knocked out but missed out on the payday )
Tyson Lewis as was around my birthday
Danny WIlliams Tyson (again due to money but was one round out dammit)
Lewis Klitch

 

lol why do people go so far to ignore floyd to not mention his name more often in his thread.

his last 2 fights had the most buildup across the board (hardcore & average sports fan) since when tyson was fighting


and all fights are hype.. you guys dont understand difference between hype, anticipation & delivery

hype basically is how much something is anticipated.....

but neither of those 2 thins have anything to do with delivery... i feel like alot of you are leaving out floyd becuase his fights didnt deliver....but you would not know that before the fight started.. which means prior to the bell ringing the end effect of the fight could have no effect on your level of anticipation

 

I didn't start following boxing hard core until late '99 so my anticipation didn't start until 2000.

Holyfield - Tyson 1
De La Hoya - Mosley 1
De La Hoya - Vargas
Trinidad - Vargas
De La Hoya - Hopkins
Jones - Ruiz
Trinidad - Mayorga
De La Hoya - Mayweather
Mayweather - Hatton
Lewis - Tyson
Lewis - Klitschko
Calzaghe - Hopkins
Pavlik - Taylor 1
Hopkins - Calzaghe
Jones - Calzaghe
Barrera - Morales 2
Gatti - Ward 1