Create Your Own Boxing Boxset

Alexis Arguello vs Alfredo Escalara I
Alexis Arguello vs Ray Mancini
Alexis Arguello vs Aaron Pryor I

For them do they all have to be of the same fighter, cant think of 3?

 

I'll go with 3 of my favorite British fighters.

Eubank v Benn I
Eubank v Watson II
Eubank v Thompson I

Hamed v Robinson
Hamed v Kelly
Hamed v Bungu

Calzaghe v Eubank
Calzaghe v Lacy
Calzaghe v Kessler

 

Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali I, II & III

Nigel Benn vs Doug DeWitt
Nigel Benn vs Chris Eubank I
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan

Mike McCallum vs Sumbu Kalambay I
Mike McCallum vs Donald Curry
Mike McCallum vs James Toney I

 

Alexis Arguello vs Alfredo Escalara I
Alexis Arguello vs Ray Mancini
Alexis Arguello vs Aaron Pryor I

Well I choose Arguello because, surprisingly, I'm an Arguello fan. And these to me are his best fights. Not his best performance but his best fights that emphasise why I am a fan of his.

My other two picks would probably be.

Jung Koo Chang vs Alfonso Lopez
Jung Koo Chang vs Hilario Zapata I
Jung Koo Chang vs Sot Chidalada I

Pernell Whittaker vs Greg Haugen
Pernell Whittaker vs Azumah Nelson
Pernell Whittaker vs Julio Cesear Chavez

I thought quite hard about this, and I choose these two as they are two fighters I deem near unbeatable. Chang narrowly beat Duran to the spot as I think Chang is more obscure and a better pick. And these are there best performances I have seen.

 

Another good thread, i'll have to have a proper think about it but i could see myself going for a sort of 'showman' theme, the entertainers.

Naz would be on without a doubt. Picking the 3 fights would be a nightmare tho! Think i'd go with Steve Robinson (winning the title), and Kevin Kelley (first fight in the states and probably his most exciting fight) for definite. The final one i'd either go for Daniel Alicea (bit short but first time he was down in his career), Tom Johnson or one purely for the entrances. The Motown for Cesar Soto one in Detroit or the McCullough 'Thriller' entrance at Halloween, although these 2 weren't the greatest of spectacles.

Eubank would also be on it, another great showman with the 'Simply the Best' entrance and jumping over the top rope. First fight with Benn, possibly the 2nd as well just for the hype it generated. Not sure on the 3rd, possibly Watson but not sure if i'd want such a tragedy on the boxset.

3rd fighter i'll get back to you.....

 

Duran-Barkley
Duran-Leonard I
Duran-de Jesus III

Hearns-Leonard I
Hearns-Hagler
Hearns-Duran

Hagler-Duran
Hagler-Leonard
Hagler-Sibson



I think those fights knit together quite well as a 9 fight set.

 

I bet Flea comes up with someone who was around in about 1924

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My two penneth....

Current British

Jamie Moore vs Macklin, Rhodes & Lujan
Carl Froch vs Taylor, Pascal & Dodson
David Haye vs Fragomeni, Mormeck & Maccarinelli

Current Foreign

Juan Manuel Marquez vs Pacquiao I, Pacquiao II & Diaz
Segio Martinez vs Cintron, Williams & Pavlik*
The Vazquez vs Marquez trilogy

Past British

Lennox Lewis vs Ruddock, Holyfield I & Rahman II
Nigel Benn vs Eubank I, Barkley & McClellan
Ricky Hatton vs Stewart, Tszyu & Mayweather

Past Foreign

Tommy Hearns vs Leonard I, Duran & Hagler
Oscar De La Hoya vs Quartey, Mosley I & Vargas
Evander Holyfield vs Qawi I, Bowe I & Tyson I

 

And there is a kinda bonus Leonard set in there.

I'm guessing Flea would have

Joe Louis definitly.
Chang ?
Arguello ?

 

I wondered if anyone would notice I'd made 4 sets out of 3!!:good

 

A Brit set:

Nigel Benn
vs McClellan
vs Eubank I
vs Logan

Carl Thompson
vs Eubank I
vs Haye
vs Sellers

Jamie Moore
vs Macklin
vs Jones III
vs Rhodes

My 4 fave Brit fighters (Eubank is in there as well :yep) in some of their greatest wars :good

 

Quite clever.

Also just for the hell of it

Mexican legends

Rubin Olivares vs Lionel Rose
Rubin Olivares vs Jesus Pimental
Rubin Olivares vs Bobby Chacon I

Julio Cesear Chavez vs Edwin Rosario
Julio Cesear Chavez vs Terrence Alli
Julio Cesear Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor

Salvador Sanchez vs Danny Lopez I
Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez
Salvador Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson

 

You have to squeeze Thomson-Rothman in there somewhere!!

 

Ha ha its hard to pick just 3 Thompson fights!