It's gotta be Robinson-Gatti 1. Just watched it again. I like it more than the Gatt-Ward 1 It's in my top 50 fights of all-time
Robinson vs LaMotta… did they need to be friends at the time? Qawi was mentored a bit by James Scott and they sparred in prison… but Qawi didn’t seem to mind beating on him in the ring, not a great bout though.
if they didn’t need to be friends at the time, the winner is Holmes-Cooney. Great fight between two men who became good friends after.
I can add Ward-Gatti tio the list and Dempey-Tunney. They don't have to be good friends when they fought just afterwards
Simon Brown vs Maurice Blocker. I heard that Lamotta and Grazioano refused to fight because they were good friends, same with Saad Muhammad and Mustafa Muhammad. As a side note, Qawi and Scott didn't like each other.
Duràn-De Jesus trilogy,idk if they have to be friends before or after,but these matches are good,it employs a different side of Duràn where he actually had to work his ass up to beat his opp at lightweight.
Albert Davila v Alberto 'Superfly' Sandoval Carlos Palomino v Armando Muniz Danny Lopez v Bobby Chacon
Aaron Pryor vs Alexis Arguello Wilfredo Gomez vs Zarate and specially, Pintor. As a side note, Gomez became very good friends with the family of Salvador Sanchez.
