Favorite Heavyweight Title Fights

Rocky Marciano Vs EZZARD Charles I

Rocky Marciano Vs Jersey Joe Walcott

Evander Holyfield Vs Riddick Bowe I

Gene Tunney Vs Jack Dempsey II

Joe Louis Vs Billy Conn I

George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali

Ali-Frazier I

Jack Dempsey Vs Luis Firpo

 

without doubt ^^

shame only half of the fight exists on video.

 

A couple of one's seldom mentioned;

Page over Coetzee. The american guy takes his act on the road and actually wins for a change. And the way he won was toe to toe, not lateral movement. He fought what would have been thought to be the completely wrong tactics and his form going into the fight had been poor.

Lykahovich over Brewster. What a slugfest and both guys digging deep and get hurt. All time great corner work to steer him on to victory. How many fighters bother to listen to specific instructions during a tough fight? Let alone firing right hand leads to the body all the time having to worry about a nasty left hook counter. A minefield to negotiate for 12 rounds.

Foreman--Moorer. What can you say? Old George doing things his way but losing battles to win the war. Setting a late round trap and taking a licking to pull it off requires a ton of discipline and it'd be so easy for an old guy to fold up the tent. And it culminates in a great right hand for the title.

Weaver/Tate. If it's a football game, the score is 45-7. But Mike scores 39 points with 2 minutes left and ruins a fighter doing it. For all the marbles. In golf, you sure don't see a guy getting 2 holes in one in the final holes to win the Masters, do you? But Mike did it.
Has any heavyweight champ been ko'd worse than that losing his title?

I really enjoy Clay--Liston 1. I was too young at the time to properly comprehend it fully. But people today don't understand what a destroyer Liston was considered to be at the time. And here was an opponent climbing off the deck against Cooper. How's he handling Sonny's left hook? But those Clay reflexes are on display 30 seconds into the bout. What a textbook job of boxing and then just taking the guy apart in the 6th round. Beautiful. A surgeon douldn't have carved him up any finer. a 7-1 underdog and look how that ended up changing the sport with the changing of the guard. Brains over brawn and he made it easy. Easy over a guy like Liston. Incredible.

 

seeing as Lykahovich over Brewster is mentioned....could i add damiani v mercer ?

 

Holmes v Norton, I simply never tire of it.

 

Botha Schultz

 

I just watched this fight for the first time after seeing your post..What a phenomenal fight!!! An all out war! I cant believe nobody went down in this bout.:good:good:good

 

A brilliant fight with the 15th probably topping Holyfield/BoweI round 10, as the best round in Heavyweight Championship history.

 

Frazier/Ali (I)
Holmes/norton
Dempsey/Willard

 

Dempsey v Firpo
Ali v Frazier1
Louis v Conn1
Ali v Frazier 3
Marciano v Walcott1
Louis v Galento
Dempsey v Brennan2
Marciano v Charles 1
Ali vForeman
Ali v Williams
Holmes v Cooney
Holmes v Norton
Tyson v Berbick
Lewis v Klitschko
Louis v B Baer1
Patterson v Johannson 3
Johnson v Burns
Louis v Walcott 2
Marciano v Charles2
Tyson v Douglas

 

01 Schmeling vs Louis 1
02 Frazier vs Ali I
03 Douglas vs Tyson
04 Holyfield vs Tyson I
05 Dempsey vs Willard
06 Lewis vs Vitali
07 Marciano vs Moore
08 Frazier vs Quarry I
09 Holmes vs Cooney
10 Holmes vs Norton

If the NABF counts I would try to find room for
Mercer vs Cooper
Foreman vs Lyle

 

? Title fight

 

I know what Philly meant..

 

Louis Vs Schmeling was a title fight was it not??