The best performances

Muhammad Ali: Cleveland Williams

Roy Jones: Bryant Brannon. I consider this his "Cleveland Williams fight". The things he did in this fight, it gives you that "did he just do that??!!" feeling.

James Toney: Iran Barkley

Bernard Hopkins: Felix Trinidad, although he also looked brilliant against Glen Johnson.

Julio Cesar Chavez: Edwin Rosario

Marvin Hagler: Tony Sibson

Floyd Mayweather: Diego Corrales

Manny Pacquiao: Miguel Cotto. Marco Antonio Barrera 1 and Ricky Hatton are up there too.

Pernell Whitaker: Jose Luis Ramirez 2

Michael Spinks: Dwight Qawi. Part of me thinks "so what, a 6'2 guy outboxed a midget". But Qawi was a terrific fighter, and he did some brilliant things in there. I loved the way he would do unusual things so well. One time he just threw about 20 jabs in a row, then gets the angle to dig a right uppercut to the ribs. Despite towering over Dwight, there's one sequence where he manages to get low, jab him to the body, and follow it up with a right uppercut to the body. A double jab followed by a left hookercut. Spinks is one of the few awkward, even ugly, fighters I like watching. I don't know why. I usually don't enjoy watching awkward fighters, but for some reason I like watching him.

Roberto Duran: Ray Leonard 1, although Esteban Dejesus 3 was brilliant too. Dejesus 3 was his peak as far as "most difficult to beat" as it's so hard for me to pick any lightweight over that Duran, while Leonard 1 was just amazing as he was up against such a great fighter and fought such a terrific fight, even if he was more beatable there by WWs than as opposed to the LW who fought Dejesus. Duran was more suited at lightweight, with him being pretty short in height and reach for WW and that would hurt him there, especially against someone like Thomas Hearns.

 

margarito vs cotto 1

 

Made me fall in love with the sport as a kid. I still probably watch it once a month

 

Great thread guys I'm watching some of these fights tonight

 

If Michael Nunn was an 'ATG', his performance against Tate was ridiculous.

 

Guillermo Rigondeax vs Donaire. Rigo put on a masterclass taking apart frustrating and breaking down a top 5 p4p guy. He took a good shot after 7 rounds casual dominance, hit the canvas and got up and put Donaire in the hospital.

 

joe brown vs Wallace bud smith 3, Wallace didn't gain a single round on my scorecard. joe showed power (splitting the inside of smiths mouth), counter punching ability, speed, excellent footwork and a high level of ring IQ. completely outclassed smith in this fight.
obvious pick would Ali vs Williams. however I would pick ali vs Liston 1 because Liston was a greater fighter than Williams
sugar ray Robinson vs bobby dykes, this has to be the best I've seen Robinson, slickest footwork ever seen, alongside fast combination and powerful punches. even knocking down dyke while going backwards with a left hook, right hand combination. at times embarrassing dykes making him miss with his footwork and then countering with a wicked left hook or a nimble jab. he used every tricked he had that night. if only there where footage of his welterweight days.
another sugar ray Robinson performance the lammotta fight 6th one. everything you want from a champion is in this fight. Robinson showed power, speed, graceful footwork, intelligence (as he came into that fight with a strategic game plan leaving openings in his guard to tempt lammotta into rushing in and using up his stamina), chin heart he took a beating on the ropes in one of the best rounds in middleweight title history (the eleventh) then came back to absolutely pummel lammotta and eventually knock him out In the thirteenth. in that fight we see a strategic game plan set out by a magnificent fighter.
willie pep vs sandy saddler I'm not too shore about this but if you want to show someone how a great fighter acts you should watch this fight willie get downed eye closed, basically the end but then he starts pulling of these incredible flashy combination out classing and out boxing saddler until he reaches the title and a hard fought win

 

Perfect tactics," kill the body "etc.

 

just watched that ray Robinson fight ****ing beautiful to see the sugar man at such grace.
I would pick the gatti or Corrales win over Floyd win over canelo only because he stooped them two showing great power with immense skill