10 Great Fights

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  1. Fat Joe

    Fat Joe Let's have it right Full Member

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    I'm gonna start a boxing collection and I'm interested in your views of what fights should be in there.

    I know of obvious ones to get - Barrera V Morales trilogy, Castillo V Corrales, Hagler V Hearns etc.

    Can you list 10 (or maybe 15 if you have the time) great fights that should be in my collection.

    Thanks in advance:good
     
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  2. eliqueiros

    eliqueiros Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Leonard/Duran 1 and 2. (Especially 1.)

    Mosley/DLH 1 and 2. (Also especially 1.)

    Trinidad/DLH (for historical reasons)

    Chavez/Rosario

    Chavez/Taylor

    Chavez/Whitaker

    Whitaker/Mayweather (my favorite foul of all time, pulling trunks down)

    Vargas/Trinidad

    Hagler/Leonard (probably one of the obvious ones)
     
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  3. MrSmall

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    Bowe Holy 1
    I rather like Eubank Watson 1 and 2.
    Benn Mclellan is a decent scrap.
     
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  4. Arriba

    Arriba Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Do you have a preference? Do you like sluggers, purists, boxer aka ballers, technical clinics, blood and guts wars, masterclasses etc etc etc. Anything specific to you?

    Here's 10 or so I can think of off the top of my head or so that I think are pretty good/worthy:

    1-3 Vasquez-Marquez Trilogy
    4 Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker-Roger Mayweather
    5 Evander Holyfield-Riddick Bowe 1
    6 Ricardo Mayorga- Felix Trinidad (A fun fight that's a good way to burn an hour or so)
    7 Carmen Basillio- Kid Gavilan
    8 Roberto Duran-Ray Leonard 1
    9 Sugar Ray Robinson- Kid Gavilan 1
    10 Bobby Chacon-Ray Mancini
     
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  5. RealIzm

    RealIzm Boxing Junkie banned

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    Good list!! But I havent seen the Mancini-Chacon fight.....I take it that it's a barnburner?
     
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  6. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    British fights:

    The Watson/Benn/Eubank merry go round
    Herol Graham vs Julian Jackson
    Hatton vs Thaxton/Magee
     
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  7. 1lehudson

    1lehudson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Im not going to list fights that everyone eles will but these are some great fights that I bet some people will say "Oh yeah I forgot about that one"

    Whitaker vs Hurtado
    Hamed vs Kelly
    Paulie Ayala vs Bones Adams I
    Micheal Carbajal vs Humberto Gonzalez I & II
    Julian Letterlough vs Demetrius Jenkins
     
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  8. Fat Joe

    Fat Joe Let's have it right Full Member

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    Any style. If I had a slight preference I would say technical fighters who some might find boring. E.g Lennox Lewis + Johnny Nelson.
     
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  9. RealIzm

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    Katsidas-Casemayor is worthy
     
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  10. columbo man

    columbo man Active Member Full Member

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    nigel benn v chris eubank 1
    chris eubank v watson 2
    nigel benn v mclellan
    holyfield v dwight qawi 1
    chavez v taylor
    tyson v razor ruddock 1
    nelson v fenech 1
    dave boy mcauley v fidel bassa 1
    ali v foreman
    denis andries v jeff harding, all 3
     
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  11. Fat Joe

    Fat Joe Let's have it right Full Member

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    Probably the most exciting fight I have seen.
     
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  12. Arriba

    Arriba Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Complete war as you'd expect while it lasts. Fought entirely in a phone booth with both men winging power shots at one another. I won't spoil the ending other than saying that it's pretty contreversial.

    One of those quickie slugfest fights that always make you go "wow" when it's over.
     
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  13. Fat Joe

    Fat Joe Let's have it right Full Member

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    How would I go about obtaining these fights? I bought a Roy Jones compilation a while back (I think off Ebay) but how would I get individual fights?
     
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  14. beerto

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    vargas - trinidad especially the first fe rounds
    corrales castillo no surprise there
    foreman lyle going back a bit but worth it
    holyfield bowe trilogy
     
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  15. Arriba

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    Fenech-Nelson 2 ain't too shabby either.

    If you like technical mastery, Winky Wright-Tito Trinidad is a good one to own.
     
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