Favorite Fights between 1978 and 1984

Many, many great fights. I fully agree - I can't think of a better period for great fights than the late 70s and early 80s. The 40s may have rivalled it but there's just not enough footage from that era to compare.

 

1982 could take up this thread on its own with Pyror-Arguello 1, Limon-Chacon 4 and Gomez-Pintor

You have the Light Heavies, Saad vs Lopez 2, Saad vs Johnson being my favourites
HWs weren't the best but it'd be criminal to not mention Holmes vs Norton

Zarate vs Pintor
Lopez vs Ayala
Hagler vs Antuofermo
Duran vs Dejesus 3
Leonard vs Hearns 2
Leonard vs Duran 1
To name a few

 

1978
Larry Holmes vs Ken Norton (heavyweight)
1979
Danny Lopez vs Mike Ayala (featherweight)
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson II (light heavyweight)
Larry Holmes vs Mike Weaver (heavyweight)
1980
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez II (light heavyweight)
1981
Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns I (welterweight)
William Lee vs John LoCicero
Bobby Chacon vs Boza Edwards I
1982
Aaron Pryor vs Alexis Arguello I (light welterweight)
Bobby Chacon vs Rafael Bazooka Limon IV
Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor
Katsuo Tokashiki vs Lupe Madera I
1983
Bobby Chacon vs Boza Edwards II
Salvador Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson
1984
Jose Luis Ramirez vs Edwin Rosario II
Tommy Cordova vs Freddie Roach

 

That's a real good obscure mention. You going all hipster on us Ovid? Tokashiki was a tiny badass.

 

Greatest fights 1978-1984

I've definitely missed a few but just threw these down as quickly as I could:

1978
Duran-DeJesus 3
Arguello-Escalera 1
Holmes-Norton
Rossman-Galindez 1
Franklin-Lopez 1

1979
Arguello-Escalera 2
Franklin-Johnson 2
Lopez-Ayala

1980
Saad-Lopez 2
Duran-Leonard 1

1981
Leonard-Hearns 1
Lee-LoCicero

1982
Sanchez-Nelson
Fletcher-Green
Pryor-Arguello 1
Mancini-Kim
Gomez-Pintor
Chacon-Limon 4

1983
Chacon- Boza-Edwards 2

1984
Ramirez-Rosario 2
Carlos Santos-Mark Medal

 

Thanks. I had a good list I'd been working on for years of all the best fights, but I lost it in a recent hard drive crash. Like, now that I see the post above mine, I used to have Rossman vs Galindez 1 on my list.

 

I have been meaning to sit down and look through some lists I have of fights to answer this question. Just have not had the time yet...but I would throw Chang vs Tokashiki into the mix as well

 

most fights fab 4. I just liked the era including Benitez. And Arguello vs. Pryor. How can you get any better than that. Arguello vs. Pryor and Hagler vs. Hearns so close to each other. You don't see two guys go at each other in the first round like those 4 guys did, and it was personal. A different era. We have had good era's since, but I think that was the last great era. One fight which did not happen which was advertised and looked good was Holmes vs. Coetzee. In retrospect Holmes would have destroyed him, but when they got together in public it was amusing.

 

Pryor/Arguello 1
Gomez/Pintor
Duran/Leonard 1
Sanchez/Gomez
O'Grady/Kenty
Holmes/Norton
Any fight with Mike Weaver

 

Good Post, with all due respect, the Salvador Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson fight took place on July 21 1982, in Madison Square Garden, won by Sanchez, TKO 15. Great Fight.

 

Pryor-Arguello I
Gomez-Pintor
Saad Muhammad-Johnson II
Saad Muhammad-Lopez II
Sanchez-Gomez
Sanchez-Nelson
Chacon-Limon IV
Chacon-Edwards II
Lopez-Ayala
Duran-Leonard I
Leonard-Hearns I
Ramirez-Rosario II
Holmes-Norton

That’s my bakers dozen. Probably a third of my top fifty fights ever.

 

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