My fault - wasn’t very clear in my original post. That’s a heck of a top 20 anyway. Just shows how many classic fights there have been across...
Thanks, D! Ah, I actually meant 5-10 across all four groups rather than top 5 for each, not that I disagree with your choices… Just amended my...
I believe it was around 1992 after the Camacho fight that he started to lose some focus and dabbling in substances but I could be wrong. Maybe he...
Barrera was definitely wrong - there is no situation in which a fighter has been grounded, whether a slip or a genuine knockdown, where it’s...
Alright my friends, I’m cool with these other groups of 4, 6 or whatever… but can we do those in a different thread? Feel free to create those...
As a reminder, here are the fights each set of Fab Fours took part in against each other. Leonard, Hearns, Hagler and Duran: Duran-Leonard 1...
When people mention The Fab Four in a boxing context, the usual assumption is that we’re talking about Leonard, Hearns, Hagler and Duran but there...
With great fights like Barrera-Morales 1 and 3, Morales-Pacquiao 1 and Pacquiao-Marquez 1 and 4, it’s easy to forget what a top fight...
Honestly, I think that interpretation is being overly generous to Barrera. It was a stupid thing he did to run across and punch Marquez when he...
There’s an argument to say it was stopped a little early - certainly Johnson was not happy about it as he thought the ref was giving him a...
It wasn’t strictly a staredown (at least at first) but Aaron Pryor v DuJuan Johnson featured a shadow box-off as Pryor pulled his trick of...
I never got any sense that Tito carried Vargas so am not surprised that he confirmed that with @ChrisJS.
Cuevas v Harold Weston is a really good fight and Weston shows astonishing durability against one of the two best punchers p4p from that era (the...
Brilliant post, JT, and a really great point about Hagler in rematches. Some fighters can adapt mid-fight, some can make adjustments in rematches...
Barrera-Morales. Barrera won 2 of 3 but Morales won the first and most people write Barrera-Morales 1 (myself included). Plus, I think a lot of...
