Single Best Win in Boxing?

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  1. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Marquez went up to 2 weight classes and then the 144 catchweight was ignored by Floyd. It would be like Pac agreeing to fight Lomachenko at 144 and then disregarded the catchweight. Guarantee that it would be a one-sided massacre.
     
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  2. Lesion of Doom

    Lesion of Doom Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Frazier over Ali
    Leonard over Hagler (agree with decision or not...)
    Duran over Leonard
    Tarver over Jones
    Douglas over Tyson
    Dempsey over Willard
    JMM over Pacquiao
    Eubank over Watson (I know, but it was an ATG shocking desperation comeback)
    Schmeling over Louis
    Rahman over Lewis
    Hopkins over Trinidad
     
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  3. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    #1 by a mile is Louis Schmeling 2, if you are taking into account everything around that fight. Despite the fact that Schmeling was not a nazi and was actually a decent guy, somehow that fight ended up being a proxy for good vs evil. And here you had Louis, a black man in 1938 (consider the racial environment of those times) as the champion of good and democracy with the president of the US personally telling him he needs to win, up against a guy who had KO'd him in their last fight... and Louis comes out and demolishes him in 2 minutes.
    I don't know if it is even possible for another fight to ever overcome that. Is there a top Russian HW for Usyk to go fight? :headbash
     
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  4. Lesion of Doom

    Lesion of Doom Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Historic fight but purely in boxing terms, I don't rate it as highly because Louis was favored in the rematch and Schemling wasn't an ATG.
     
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  5. VG_Addict

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    Salvador Sanchez's win over Azumah Nelson.

    Salvador Sanchez's wins over Danny Lopez.
     
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  6. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Purely in boxing terms, you're right. #1 is probably Tyson-Douglas.
     
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    iii Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Baby faced assassin when he became a school teacher to Naseem hamed...Glorious ass whooping...
     
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  8. RJJFan

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    Where would you consider Ali- Liston 1? Big upset at the time.
     
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  9. lufcrazy

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    Loma Rigo lmao gtfo
     
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  10. bulldoze

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    A few that resonated with me at the time:

    Spinks vs Ali
    Kirkland Laing over Roberto Duran
    Honeyghan vs Don Curry
     
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  11. The Clan

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    Worst boxing match I’ve ever witnessed, absolutely terrible!
     
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  12. MetalLicker

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    Duran over Leonard
    Duran over Barkley
    Toney over Nunn
    Jones over Toney
    Frazier over Ali
    Spinks over Ali
    Ali over Liston
    Ali over Foreman
    Spinks over Holmes
    Douglas over Tyson
    Sanders over W. Klitschko
    Rahman over Lewis
    Braddock over Baer
    Ruiz over AJ
    Usyk over AJ
     
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  13. tinman

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    Its definitely up there for me. Frazier was really game that night. He was a great fighter but really seemed to turn it up that night.

    The media never focuses on Fraziers win over Ali these days anymore. It's all about Ali over Foreman.

    Let's not forget about Fraziers job on Ali!
     
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  14. boxingspitbucket24

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    It's a great win. I thought Rigo was going to expose Loma here. And it wasn't size that hindered Rigo, he couldn't even read Loma and his use of angles. Rigo was hitting air all night and then realized he's never going to hit him so quit on his stool.

    How is that not a great meaningful win?
     
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  15. JOKER

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    Pacquiao-Cotto is up there. 90% of people expected Pacquiao to get murdered. And Paulie said that Pacquiao would be the GOAT if he got passed Cotto.

    :deal:
     
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