Remember when boxing had Super fights?

i don't need the media or casual fans to tell me when the fight between two stars is a "superfight". Casual fans and the media know **** about boxing to be telling me when a fight is "superfight". So their involvement or lack thereof in these supposed superfights mean squat to me. A superfight is 2 great fighters going at it regardless of the afore mentioned clowns thoughts or knowledge of it.

marquez and vasquez would qualify as a superfight to me. as well as many others that took place this year and will take place this year.

 

What's your pick for the fight?

 

Alot of the fights posters have listed as superfights are IMO 'classic fights'.It is easy to call them superfights after the fact if they indeed were great fights but few of them were billed as superfights before the event took place

 

I simply think it all boils down to that people have far more input and things to chose from than they did before. It helps little that boxers have massive amount of charisma if no one or very little are watching.

I think what you are offering or suggesting could turn out very ugly. Promotions and media would hype up boxers with alot of charisma and good looks. Hand them title fights before deserved, and maybe even give them decisions; I am really not grasping at straws here, I believe. The focus should be boxing. If boxing sells in itself, then good, if not - well. I couldn't care less, really. Money often corrupts things.

In lieu with what you are saying concering football. Would you consider asking an american of the significance in Liverpool winning the champions league, and would you ask an eskimo of the significance of Michael Vicks life-time ban?

I am not saying what you say isn't true, coz it probably is, but it is ignorant to say that conference league holds more importance or interest in sport than Kessler-JC. Media likes to govern what is good television - your job as a fan, is to forge your own opinion.

 

I think that Taylor/Pavlik is a super fight, and a great match up, because this fight has everything to be explosive and both guys are undefeated and hard hitters, and hungry, and both men know they are going to win.

 

Great post.:good

 

Mayweather/Hatton and Cotto/Mosley are superfights. Same with Calzaghe/Kessler and Taylor/Pavlik. Although I dont really care about the other 2.

On that note, I thought fights like MAB/JMM, Vazquez/Marquez 1 & 2, Corrales/Castillo, Corrales/Freitas, Hatton/Tzyue were superfights as well.

 

I'll let you know a few days out.

Right now, I would bet Pavlik by KO though.

 

Super fights are boxing matches that contain boxers who are at the top of there division who are usually in there prime fighting to see who is the best. While I agree some of the fights you mentioned our good, I would have to say Kessler/Calzaghe is and Hatton/Mayweather are super fights that contain undefeated fighters at or near there peak fighting each other. Mosley is past his prime while cotta has not yet reached his potential yet, both Pavlik and Taylor our not at there peak yet in my opinion.

 

up untill the early 90s big fights felt more like superfights because it was not just a boxing match, it was an event. it was the place to be and be seen for pro athletes in general as well as hollywood stars. the whos who of popular culture attended these events and got treated to a show because you did not just see one big title match but 4 or 5. i miss those days.