1970's Best fight by year (FOTYC)

Been working on a Fight of the year project for quite a while now. My list ranges from 1970-today. But my knowledge of 1970s boxing is somewhat limited.

You can easily find info on most 70s fights, but getting a feel of the top most significant, competitive, epic fights is a lot harder.

I'm asking for people to post their suggestions for FOTY each year from the 70s. Especially if you feel it's a superior fight to the ones RING magazine chose.

 

My 1970'S list:

06-17-79: Danny Lopez v Mike Ayala: KO 15 (San Antonio,TX)
WBC Featherweight Title

06-09-78 Larry Holmes v Ken Norton: W 15 (Las Vegas,NV)
WBC Heavyweight Title

07-26-77 Matthew Franklin(Saad Muhammad) v Marvin Johnson 1: TKO 12 (Philadelphia,PN)
Light Heavyweight Non-Title

01-24-76 George Foreman v Ron Lyle: KO 5 (Las Vegas,NV)
Heavyweight Non-Title

* 10-01-75 Muhammad Ali v Joe Frazier 3: TKO 14 (Manilla, PHI) *
WBC, WBA, RING World Heavyweight Championship

06-03-74 Oscar Albarado v Koichi Wajima 1: KO 15 (Tokyo, JPN)
WBC, WBA, RING World Jr middleweight Championship

11-03-73 Arnold Taylor v Romeo Anaya 1: KO 14 (Johannesburg,S.Africa)
WBA & Lineal World Bantamweight Championship

09-26-72 Bob Foster v Chris Finnegan: KO 14 (London,UK)
WBC, WBA, RING World Light Heavyweight Championship

03-08-71 Joe Frazier v Muhammad Ali 1: W 15 (New York,NY)
WBC, WBA, RING World Heavyweight Championship

08-06-70 Mando Ramos vs Ultiminio Sugar Ramos: W 10 (Los Angeles, CA)
Lightweight Non-Title

 

The three years I'm most uncertain about are 1972, 1977, & maybe 1979.

 

Great list. How do feel our two lists compare. Meaning have you seen all the fights listed between these 2 lists (excluding Taylor/Anya)? Any years that are toss ups for you?

 

Cool. So what are your alternate choices on those years?

 

Don't know of anyone's heard of this fight but I literally just stumbled upon it.
hong soo-whan vs hector carrasquilla 1977.

Idk if it FOTY material or not. But the Korean fighter soo-whan goes down 4 x's in the 2nd..and rallies back to KO the champion in the 3rd. Pretty epic. It's on YouTube.

 

70,72,&73 ?:thumbsup

 

OK! I realized what I'm really looking for...my hope was to create a running list of the Fight of the year contenders. What are the known and recognized amazing fights each year in 1970.

Should I open a new thread asking for the top 20-25 fights in that decade? Or does anyone on here have a pretty strong knowledge of 70s boxing?