Rank the historical HW trilogies, quadrologies, and if there were quintologies that I'm not aware of. So we all know that the trilogy Ali Vs. Frazier number 1. What is the HW trilogy number 2, number 3, number 4…?
The ones that jump out at me would be Ali-Norton and Patterson-Johansson. After that it gets rougher. I'm aware of the many times Langford, McVey, Jeanette and Wills fought each other, but anything more recent (by recent I mean over the last 60 years) gets a bit dodgier and the fact that we don't have a real clear view if they were exciting outside of a result.
Top 5 would be. Ali/Fraizer Holyfield/Bowe Fury/Wilder Johansson/Patterson Norton/Ali I would say that order is pretty much spot on although you could swap them about maybe.
As Ali Vs. Frazier by default HW Trilogy #1, IMHO Holyfield Vs. Bowe makes a very good case for trilogy #2.
Patterson-Johansson is arguably a more entertaining trilogy than Bowe-Holyfield, though their best fight was also the only competitive one of the bunch (Fight III). It was probably more exciting than any one Bowe-Holyfield fight, but the more consistently competitive nature of the Bowe-Holyfield trilogy gets it the silver medal, IMO. Ali-Norton was interesting certainly, but rarely exciting. Even Ali-Frazier, as much as it is your gold standard, has a pretty dull bout in it, that being Super Fight II. The bronze goes to Fury-Wilder - though often ungainly I’ve got to pick it for third based on thrills.
1. Ali-Frazier 2. Holyfield-Bowe 3. Fury-Wilder 4. Johansson-Patterson 5. Ali-Norton 6. Charles-Walcott 7. Holyfield-Ruiz 8. Fury-Chisora My ranking. If there are any other trilogies, I can't think of them right now. But I'm not a boxing connoisseur.
I wouldn't put Ali-Norton there tbh. There first fight was extremely boring with Ali doing virtually nothing the entire fight. Norton actually looked far better in their second fight, which imo was his career best performance.
