Choose the GREATEST displays of all boxing aspects from the last 20 years...

Yes.

Without doubt.

The number 1.

The Nonpareil.

I have seen hundreds of boxing matches, maybe even more than that, and this is my undisputed choice for the greatest exhibition of offensive skills I have ever witnessed.

I was not being flippant when I said that, I have considered it long and hard, and I am very sure of it. JMHO.

In that fight we have one of the true elite skillsets of boxing history producing an utterly jaw-dropping display for 12 rounds.

Whitaker doesn't box from the outside well, he doesn't fight inside well, he doesn't jab well, he doesn't throw hooks well, he doesn't throw uppercuts well, he doesn't throw bodyshots well, he doesn't use good footwork...


...he does every single ****ing thing absolutely STUPENDOUSLY BRILLIANTLY!!!!! He throws every single punch in the book in that fight, his combinations are insane. Poetry.

I think you are horrendously underrating that showing judging by this appallingly stinking list of alternatives below.

I am going to report you for crimes against boxing I think!!

Doesn't come anywhere even remotely close to Pea-Buddy in terms of punch variety and technique. Not even close. Plus Williams was not a great fighter, which lessens the impressiveness of torching him.

Doesn't come anywhere even remotely close to Pea-Buddy in terms of punch variety. It's a fight in a phonebooth. It's perhaps my favourite ever example of infighting, but it does not even rival Pea-McGirt for the sheer range of skills shown by Whitaker.

OK, you just threw this one in for a joke, right? :admin

If I thought a top fighter using an overmatched, cherrypicked opponent for a punchbag was the greatest ever exhibition of boxing I'd ever seen, I would indeed hand myself in for crimes against boxing!! :nono

Opposition must count for something, otherwise the greatest exhibition of boxing ever could be a sparring session between Roy Jones and some guy that worked at his gym.

Gatti was no McGirt. And a hand-selected, weight-drained, past his sell-by date Gatti certainly was no McGirt.

A legitimate contender of course, the only one you have listed as I see it, but I still prefer the way Whitaker integrates his all-round game into an offensive display as he does vs Buddy, and I still think his punch variety is better than SRR's in these two fights. However, I wouldn't quibble with anyone who preferred this fight.

A sublime display, but Margarito never had the defence of Buddy McGirt. Pacquiao tattooed Margo with punches for 12 rounds = mightily impressive. Whitaker tattooed McGirt with punches for 12 rounds = for me, another level of impressive. JMO.

I feel about this much the same way as I do about Ali-Williams, I think it's a great performance, but I don't believe it has anywhere near the aesthetic merits of Pea-McGirt. Louis does not unleash a sustained, virtuoso display of every punch imaginable - not to the same extent, in my own opinion.

I think this is the greatest win achieved by any boxer in history, but that's not synoymous with the greatest offensive performance ever. Much like Chavez-Rosario, this is just a truly awesome example of infighting, but an exhibition of offence should exhibit every aspect of offence. You could argue this fight does that, but I don't think it matches Pea-McG II.


Pea does everything in that fight, he throws every punch, he does everything exceptionally.

Genuinely, no other fight I can think of exceeds it in that regard. None. And as you know, there are fighters I personally prefer to Pea (Duran, Pacquiao and Toney to name but three).

That fight just blows my mind!! :good

 

Yawn.

I chose the best and worst examples that I've seen, irrespective of weight class. I don't write for an encyclopedia, this list is highly, highly subjective, and nowhere did I state or portray any different.

If you disagree with my choices, name me some better alternatives rather than whining and moaning over mine. :good

 

Two very solid alternatives, good shout :good

 

Yawn. Yet more shitty little posts from one of the most dismal trolls to ever grace this forum. :dead:dead:dead

 

The steady stream of horrendously boring and childish posts this moron makes is similar to the steady discharge of semen he suffers every Sunday - Headbanger being the anal creampie of ESB. :smoke

 

Roy jones worst jab ? U couldnt be talking about the one that was nailing pazienza with triple and quadruple jabs and haye does not have the worst stamina and im one of the biggest haye haters

 

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You ranked Froch miles higher than Kessler immediately after Kessler had beaten him fair and square = you have no credibility, gimp :nono

 

Actually I think your choices are very good. I don't believe Morales-Pacquiao 1 is one of the best counterpunching displays, and I don't believe a guy who has been stopped as many times as Mayorga has deserves to be the best chin when the utterly invincible Wayne McCullough was around in the same era, but other than that thanks for a quality contribution (though the Hopkins-Tito fight was actually in 2001) :good