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Best boxing year of this decade

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sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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I hear a lot of talk about how this boxing year is the worst for a while. What boxing year was the best one of this decade in your opinion, a year that had the most high quality matchups and good fights?

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I'd go for 2007 too

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2002

Gatti/Ward I
Gatti/Ward II
Morales/Barrera II
De La Hoya/Vargas
Lewis/Tyson

And the huge bump on Rahman's head from Holyfield.

Boxing was Sports Illustrated cover material again.

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2007

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2009

Williams vs Martinez
Marquez vs Diaz
Ortiz vs Maidana
Mosley vs Margarito
Pacquiao vs Cotto
Khan vs Kotelnik
Pacquiao vs Hatton
Mayweather vs Marquez
Cotto vs Clottey

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2007 hands down...made me feel proud to be a fight fan with the onslaught of great fights and De La Hoya-Mayweather making crossover headlines helped a lot too, even if it wasn't a barnburner.

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2007:

Cory Spinks-Jermain Taylor
John Ruiz-Nikolay Valuev
De La Hoya-Mayweather etc.....

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2005

Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales I
Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo
Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Torres

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Probably 2007.

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2008 deserves some kudos. Quintana-Williams I & II, Margarito-Cotto, Vazquez-Marquez III, Pacquiao-Marquez II, Pavlik-Taylor II, Haye-Maccarinelli, Adamek-Cunningham.

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the second half of the decade was amazing.

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DemolitionDan said: ↑

2008 deserves some kudos. Quintana-Williams I & II, Margarito-Cotto, Vazquez-Marquez III, Pacquiao-Marquez II, Pavlik-Taylor II, Haye-Maccarinelli, Adamek-Cunningham.
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This... 2008 was a great year for boxing...

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looking up some old threads about the quality of 2008, here are some posts I found

Maxmomer said: ↑

One of the best since I've been following the sport (which, admittedly, hasn't been that long). You've got Margarito beating the odds to take down Cotto, to finally become the man at welterweight. Hopkins beating the odds to UD the much younger Kelly Pavlik to prove he's still a force in the sport despite his age, and a true all time great. Paquioa shoving expectations into the asses of much of the boxing community by dominating De La Hoya when many thought him winning at all was a laughable notion. Also, Marquez and Vasquez wrapping up their epic trilogy, JMM becoming the first man to stop Casamayor, Vitali Klitschko coming out of a four year retirment to win a belt right off the bat. A lot of drama, a lot of upsets, a lot of great fights, a lot of history to go down in the books. Great, great ****ing year of boxing.
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El Cepillo said: ↑

Very good year, some memorable fights, for very different reasons.
Cotto vs. Margo for quality, Froch vs Pacal for excitement. Hatton vs. Malignaggi for class. Pac vs. Oscar for disapointment/elation depending on how you look at it. The rise of Kessler and Abraham, the final fall of RJJ. Bernard schooling Pavlik.The return of Vitali. Haye becoming undisputed and then stepping up.

'09 will be better though.
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p.falk said: ↑

Very good.
Exciting match ups. Stunning upsets. Big fights that were brawls.

Froch v Pascal was not only a relevant match up. It was a brawl. And both guys came out of the fight looking better than ever. Pascal showed he had heart and Froch showed he had chin.

Cunningham v Adamek - two contrasting styles which would usually play out as a boring affair actually was amazing. Both guys were doing what they had to do to win. Both guys were able to work their approach and had success with it.... one moreso than the other.

Pacquiao v Oscar - very few were really confident in Pacquiao's chances to win this. Alot spoke that he would win, but they weren't entirely confident. Certainly no one expected the fight that we did get. Oscar might not have made it a very competitive fight. But I think more people were shocked with Pacquiao's performance regardless of what Oscar wasn't able to do.

Hatton v Paulie M - relevant match up and exciting as well as unexpected. Hatton was back in top form putting on a display that most thought was forever locked in his past. But not only that, he showed things he had shown as well earlier in his career. He was able to outbox the better boxer. He was able to land single big shots, showing a speed and accuracy that I hadn't seen before.

Vitali v Sam Peter - Interesting match up. I don't know many who thought that it would have been as one sided as it was. Say what you want to about Vitali but the guy comes off close to a four year lay off to completely work a top 10 heavyweight champ. And doing it with his left down below his waist for the majority of the fight.

Vic Darchiyan v Mijares - relevant match up/interesting match up. Again, the brawler proves the press wrong. Never saw this fight happening like this.... never. The brawler was countering the boxer better. Beating him to the punch and eventually giving a great finale to the fight.
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PH|LLA, Nov 1, 2010

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07 was phenomenal

08 was good too

I think I remember 03 being fantastic though.

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