What fights have reputations as being the most exciting of all time??

Two of the best clubfights of the early 1980s

John Collins vs John LoCicero - Chicago Irish vs Chicago Italian - half Chicago turned out to watch this one - ethnic brawls are still the best

Frank "The Animal" Fletcher vs James "Hard Rock" Green - two old school Philadelphia middleweights going at it - one writer said Fletcher looked like a starving Philadelphia hobo pouncing on a sandwich

 

Nice shout out to that scrap. Just checked it out on Youtube and the whole thing is damned exciting.

Check out Moorer's interview at the end... "Bert was a tough f*ckin' guy, man." Classic.

 

I disagree, the first 3 or 4 rounds aren't that great with Gatti outboxing Ward and keeping him off, but Ward closes the gap and then starts hurting Gatti, then the fight becomes exciting! Round 9 is the best round of boxing I've ever seen (it shares that title with round of Hagler-Hearns though). The fight is great, not overrated

 

Castillo-Corrales 1

 

To the letter of the subject, "what fights have the reputation of being the most exciting", we've always read that the first two Zale-Graziano fights had no peers. Of course, film does not appear to exist on them today, only the third. Another I read about back in the day but never saw was the bout between Caveman Lee and Johnny LoCicero. For a clubfight it was said to be intense. Of ones I saw and have not been mentioned here would be Carbajal-Gonzalez I, Danny Lopez-Jose Torres and Muniz-Palomino I.

Scartissue

 

Foreman/Lyle
Chacon/Limon
Chacon/Boza-Edwards
Hagler/Hearns
Marciano/Walcott
Louis/SchmelingII
Ali/Frazier 1
Matthew Sadd /Lopez

 

Frankie DePaula vs. Dick Tiger

Lyle vs. Foreman

Gatti vs. Ward I

Billy McNeece vs. Tony Johnson

Joey Giardello vs. Henry Hank

 

A few famous, a few less so:

Hagler/Hearns

Holyfield/QawiI

Holyfield/StewartI

Bowe/HolyfieldI and III and to a point II

Zale/GrazianoI II and III

Ingo/FloydIII

Benn/Logan

Garza/Meza

Benn/EubankI

Naseem/Kelley

Williams/CzyzI

Liles/LittleII

Bassa/McAuleyI

Carbajal/GonzalesI

and I always liked Hearns/Andries, Bruno/Williams and Bruno/Smith

 

Corrales Castillo

 

Its a great fight, but not among the greastest of all-time. Ali-Frazier III, Pryor-Arguello 1, Bowe-Holyfield I, and Barrera-Morales I. Those fights were more or less all barnburners from start to finish. Gatti-Ward I never took off into a frenzy until after 5 rounds, thats half the fight.

Totally agreed, the 9th round was memorable.

 

Gatti vs Ward I
Ali vs Frazier I
Liston vs Williams I & II
Marciano vs Moore
Tyson vs Ruddock II
Bowe vs Golota II
Foreman vs Lyle
Lewis vs Briggs

 

Gatti vs Robinson I
Holyfield vs Bowe I
Gatti vs Rodriguez
Gatti vs Ruelas
Morales vs Barrera I