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Fighters
Azumah Nelson
Tony The Tiger Lopez
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Ricky Hatton
Joe Frazier
Alexis Arguello
Ray Mancini
Erik Morales
Jorge Arce
Rocky Lockridge

Nelson Vs Sanchez
Holyfield vs Qawi I
Frazier vs Quarry I
Arguello vs Escalera I
Morales vs Pac I
Saad Muhammad vs Lopez I
Minter vs Antuofermo I
Hatton vs Tszyu
Tony Lopez vs Jorge Paez
Azumah Nelson Vs Bazooka Gomez

 

Hard to narrow down to 10 for me but I’ll try

Juan Manuel Marquez
Eder Jofre
Felix Trinidad
Salvador Sanchez
Marvin Hagler
Luis Rodriguez
Jose Napoles
Ruben Olivares
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Evander Holyfield

Fights

Pryor-Arguello I
Saad Muhammad-Johnson I
Saad Muhammad-Lopez II
Chacon-Limon IV
Olivares-Kanazawa
Bowe-Golota II
Morales-Barrera I
Gomez-Pintor
Holyfield-Qawi
Trinidad-Vargas

The fights was hard for me. I have around 30/40 that I like almost equally.

 

1.Mike Tyson 2.Evander Holyfield 3.Julio cesar Chavez 4.Pernell Whitaker 5.Dwight Muhammad Qawi 6.Floyd Mayweather 7.Oscar Delahoya 8.Felix Trinidad 9.Terry Norris 10.James Toney. Leonard vs Hagler. Jones vs Toney. Ali vs Foreman. Chavez vs Rosario .Chavez vs Camacho. Barrera vs Marquez . Barrera vs Morales 1 . Fullmer vs Paret . Judah vs Spinks 2 Trinidad vs Vargas .

 

You and me too brutha....what a great thread!

 

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I'm a fan of that fight too....and nothing against the ill fated Paret...but there was a sort of primitive...and I mean primitive beauty in Gene Fullmer's attack. I used to hear my Dad and my Uncle waaay back when I was a mere boy...talking about FUllmer's crudity...how he shouldn't have beaten SRR, but he did dammit...they'd say, shaking their heads.
Just like, to me, Billy Conn represented the WW2 era...the early 40's....Gene Fullmer represented the 50's....along with Marciano perhaps....to a tee. To me, Gene Fullmer looked like what a fighter was supposed to look like back then ...he was trapped in the 50's like a fly to amber imo.
Benny Paret probably wasn't too high in the IQ department, what, challenging a rough, mean, super strong bull like Fullmer??? Like, didn't he kinda expect what was going to happen?? Nothing but praise and admiration for GF taking no **** off his overmatched opponent...and delivering the goods like he did. Like I said, nothing against Benny Paret, ....it would have been the same whatever welterweight stepping in the ring with the Utah Bull would have gotten.

 

I'm very much a late 70's early 80's guy at heart. That's when Boxing on TV was booming!! Fighters had so much craft and skill. So off the top of my head in no particular order here goes.

1 Holmes
2 Arguello
3 Duran
4 Matt Franklin
5 Marvin Hagler
6 Thomas Hearns
7 Jeff Fenech
8 Smokin Joe Frazier
9 Ray Mancini
10 JMM
Fights
Franklin vs Johnson 2
Mancini vs Kim
Frazier vs Quarry 1
Boza Edward's vs Chacon 1or 2
Lockridge vs Pedroza 1
Fenech vs Villesana
Fletcher vs Clint Jackson
Morales vs Barrera 1 or 2 pickem
Hagler vs Mugabi
Duran vs Moore

 

"They shouldn't have let him fight again so soon ...I beat him so badly that i didn't want to fight again for 4 months= Gene Fullmer