Top 10 Must-See Fantasy Fights

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  1. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Imo. In sets of 3 then a top 10.

    HW
    Evander Holyfield vs Joe Frazier
    Rocky Marciano vs Jack Dempsey
    Max Baer vs James J Jeffries

    CW
    Oleksandr Usyk vs Vassily Jirov
    Krzysztof Glowacki vs Carl Thompson
    Denis Lebedev vs Carlos DeLeon

    LHW
    Marvin Johnson vs Yvon Durrelle
    Glen Johnson vs Yaqui Lopez
    Saad Muhammad vs Artur Beterbiev

    SMW
    Nigel Benn vs Carl Froch
    Gerald McClellan vs Harry Greb
    Glen Johnson vs Chris Eubank

    MW
    Jake LaMotta vs Stanley Ketchel
    Bert Lytell vs Rodrigo Valdez
    Tony Zale vs Dick Tiger

    JMW
    Gaspar Ortega vs Rocky Graziano
    Julian Jackson vs Carmen Basillio
    John Mugabi vs Antonio Margarito

    WW
    Barbados Joe vs Henry Armstrong
    Roberto Durán vs Kid Gavalin
    Pipino Cuevas vs Tito Trinidad

    JWW
    Ricky Hatton vs Frankie Randall
    Aaron Pryor vs Kostya Tszyu
    Julio Cesar Chavez vs José Napoles

    LW
    Roberto Durán vs Henry Armstrong
    Alexis Arguello vs Manny Pacquiao
    Sammy Angott vs Battling Nelson

    SFW
    Boza Edwards vs Danny Lopez
    Bobby Chacon vs Arturo Gatti
    Tony Lopez vs Rocky Lockridge

    FW
    Danny Lopez vs Jorge Paez
    Salvador Sanchez vs Vicente Saldivar
    Sandy Saddler vs Henry Armstrong

    SBW
    Erik Morales vs Jeff Fenech
    Lupe Pintor vs Manny Pacquiao
    Danny Zaragoza vs Jeff Fenech

    BW
    Fighting Harada vs Rubén Olivares
    Joe Tatsuyoshi vs Hozumi Hasegawa
    Chucho Castillo vs Carlos Zarate

    Sfly
    Gilberto Roman vs Johnny Tapia
    Jiro Watanbe vs Khaosai Galaxy
    Juan Francisco Estrada vs Sung Kil Moon

    Fly
    Fighting Harada vs Pancho Villa
    Jung Koo Chang vs Fighting Harada
    Miguel Canto vs Ricardo Lopez

    Lfly
    Jorge Arce vs Akira Yaegashi
    Jung Koo Chang vs Roman Gonzalez
    Jung Koo Chang vs Myung Woo Yuh

    Top 10.
    1. Marvin Johnson vs Yvon Durrele
    2. Akira Yaegashi vs Jorge Arce
    3. Danny Lopez vs Boza Edwards
    4. Bobby Chacon vs Arturo Gatti
    5. Roberto Durán vs Henry Armstrong
    6. Kid Gavalin vs Roberto Durán
    7. Fighting Harada vs Pancho Villa
    8. Joe Frazier vs Evander Holyfield
    9. Glen Johnson vs Yaqui Lopez
    10. Henry Armstrong vs Barbados Joe
     
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  2. The Morlocks

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    Great, fantastic list. Never seen better. All action hang on to the edge of yr seat fights.
     
  3. 70sFan865

    70sFan865 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, almost ideal list. Can't imagine any fight being not competitive or not entertaining. I love that you included Old Mongoose vs Rudy Rob.
     
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  4. George Crowcroft

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    Fitsimmons vs Moore is as good a technical slugfest as possible. Both had solid chins, could bang with the best of them, had unique styles and were master boxers. Perfect clash of styles as well.

    I've fought of about 25 extra fights that could be listed here. I had to let my bias for southpaw on southpaw clashes to take over.
     
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    What is also amazing in this fight is that even KDs doesn't mean a win. Both could fight extremely well when hurt and never lost their patience in the ring. They both carried their power into late rounds extremely well and were very well conditioned. This fight could be scheduled as a 10 rounder, 12 rounder, 15 rounder and it would always be exciting untill the end.

    It's much more entertaining fantasy slugfest than other because you can't predict anything here.
     
  6. Jel

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    Chacon-Gatti at 130 - that's as exciting as it gets.

    Marciano-Frazier is my all-time fantasy heavyweight action fight.

    Fantasy gold.
     
  7. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    1. Dempsey vs Marciano
    2. Ali vs Marciano
    3. Fitzsimmons vs Langford
    4. Baer vs Foreman
    5. Gatti vs Graziano
    6. Armstrong vs Mayweather Jr
    7. Robinson vs Hearns
    8. Ketchel vs Hagler
    9. Walcott vs Ali
    10. Sullivan vs Jeffries
     
  8. George Crowcroft

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    Absolutely. I'm trying to pick a winner for all of them and that ones the hardest imo
     
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    I'd pick Chacon but no-one is getting a safety first points win.
     
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  11. George Crowcroft

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    Pass. Picking a winner is almost impossible. Gun to my head I'll take death
    Fitsimmons TKO. I think both go down, both get up, both get up but Fitsimmons was bigger fighting freak imo (meaning he was more supernaturally equipped to survive a fire fight) and would eventually catch Moore clean then take him down. But another almost impossible to predict fight.
    To me this is probably the easiest. Greb UD
    He'd out work Gerald but would be met with some hellfire in return.
    I like Benn here. He'd pound Froch's face with a type of fire power he'd never seen before. I like both to stay on there feet swinging and Froch's stamina to bring him back later on but Nigel starts strong and takes a UD imo.
    Montréal Duran vs Mickey Walker is one of the best slugfest possible. I'd like Duran to make Walker miss more and land some good counters whilst getting hit in return.
    Not a KO imo, Duran UD15
    Fight for the number 2 WW of all time imo. I like Walker to outmuscle Armstrong but lose a UD based on Homicide Hank's output.
    Joe is the bigger guy and he's quicker. Both guys are equally brutal on the inside and would walk towards each other, i like Joe to win this by late TKO, he'd be landing more than Rocky and dodging more of Rocky's punches but he'd be at a disadvantage due to pretty much being one handed. Rocky has every chance of winning but I favour Frazier's speed, size and defence. Joe TKO13
    I like Rocky to take Dempsey's onslaught and makes the pace he would set catch up on Jack and take him out late. Rocky TKO11
    Usyk UD12, I like him to outbox Jirov whilst the pair of them land all sorts of bombs on eachother. Them both being southpaw would let them use there full arsenals unhindered
    I think Tarver has the better chin, and that's what it would come down to. I think in this brawl they'd line up lefts and Tarver would take more of Moorer's than the other way around
    Tarver TKO9

    I think it goes without saying that none of these are easy fights.
     
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    1. Barbados Walcott v as. Armstrong
    2. Duran vs. LaVigne
    And Nelson wolgast etc
    3. Liston vs. Jeffries
    4. 1971 Briscoe vs. 83 Hagler
    5. La Motta vs 81 Fletcher
    6. 78 Franklin vs 81 Braxton----Matt by 10 count oh yeah baby. Dwight would be Trampled Under Foot.
    7. 78 Franklin vs 82 Spinks- Matt by stoppage
    8. 75 Galindez vs. 78 Franklin. Viscious Victor in an ever so bloody stoppage
    9. Ace Hudkins vs. 154 Hearns-Hudkins in a goring
    10. Cuevas vs. Basilio- Pipino cracks the impenetrable jaw. KO 2 for Cuevas
     
  13. The Malibu Mauler

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    I think Tyson vs Ali is a staple fantasy fight. Argubly the two most iconic boxers of all time going at it. Would be a great fight
     
  14. George Crowcroft

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    10 in no order

    Dempsey vs Marciano
    Duran vs Ike Williams
    Sullivan vs Jefferies
    Duran vs Napoles
    Chang vs Yuh
    Canzoneri vs Armstrong
    Sanchez vs Saldivar
    Harada vs Chang
    Greb vs Hagler
    Steele vs Robinson

    Also, a new addition in my fantasy match ups is Jimmy Wilde vs Midget Wolgast.