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