Top 5 non-title fights on film?

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    What are your five favourite non-title fights? No kind of title allowed, not the USBA Super-flyweight title, not the Southern Area light-middleweight title, not the EBU super-bantamweight title, not the Texas-state HW title, not the WBC interin light-heavyweight champion (the WBC seem to have three champions at this weight currently), not the WBA super-welterweight title, not the BBFC middleweight title, not the...you get the idea.

    No titles at all on the line, what were the best fights? Name no more than five.
     
  2. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    Gatti v Ward 1 was the first fight that sprung to mind.
     
  3. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Jeanette RTD49 McVey
    Schmeling TKO8 Walker
    Schmeling KO12 Louis
    Tiger UD10 Hank
    Duran TKO4 Cuevas

    The ones of recent years were not in the same class talent wise but very entertaining:
    Stieglitz TKO11 Berrio
    Arslan TKO5 Drozd
     
  4. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    Jeanette v Mcvey is on film?
     
  5. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    1-Arturo Gatti-Ivan Robinson I
    2-Micky Ward-Emanuel Burton
    3-Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward I
    4-Rogers Mtagwa-Tomas Villa
    5-Derrick Jeferson-Maurice Harris
     
  6. bodhi

    bodhi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No, why do you ask?
     
  7. McGrain

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    Cracking list.
     
  8. SuzieQ49

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    Ezzard Chares-Harold Johnson
     
  9. McGrain

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    My #1
     
  10. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    :good
     
  11. Ezzard

    Ezzard Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Much forgotten

    Don Lee versus Tony Sibson
     
  12. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Beat me to it.

    Charles vs Marshall II deserves a mention, some of the most furios but completly technically correct in fighting I have seen.
     
  13. McGrain

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    Harold Johnson SD10 Ezzard Charles
    Ezzard Charles KO6 Lloyd Marshall
    Jimmy Carter UD10 Percy Bassett
    Sonny Liston TKO7 Clark
    Charley Burley UD10 Billy Smith
     
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