What Was The Fight Of The 80's?

Rosario-Ramirez I was the beginning of the end for boxing with me. Arguello ditched the WBC LW Title when the WBC ditched the championship distance, and nobody has ever questioned that Ramirez would have won his first bout with Chapo had it been scheduled for 15 rounds instead of 12. It is exclusively because of that elimination of the championship rounds that Rosario is in Canastota while Ramirez is not.

Alexis NEVER competed in a world title fight scheduled for less than the championship distance, and that matters greatly to me.

Concerning my former interest in boxing, Rosario-Ramirez I was like being a vampire exposed to sunlight for the first time. SRL-Hagler was the stake through the heart, and when Tyson-Tucker was shortened at the last minute from the championship distance to 12 rounds, what body remained to be revived crumbled to dust. It's why you only see me in Classic.

 

I believe its a Leonard toss up!..

Leonard Vs Duran I....or
Leonard Vs Hearns I

Either way you cant go wrong as far as fantastic 80's fights go

Argeullo Vs Pryor does deserve a mention tho..What a great fight!

 

Great fights!! 1982 was a phenomenal year for boxing:good

 

I have always been an advocate for a 'return' to the 'classic' 15 rounders in world title fights. But in recent years the amount of 'title' bouts has led to a big debate over who is a generally recognized world champion let alone what scheduled distance their bouts should be!

The era you reminisce about is over. I managed to enjoy the sport a little longer (until the end of the 90s), before the frustrations got too much too. I have come to the conclusion that there is no point bemoaning about what is not happening in this era. There are exceptional talents around, whether they would be able to be so successful in the times we like is very much up for debate.

The sport has changed a lot since 'our' eras, we may bemoan that, but there are plenty of new fans, many from areas of the world that struggled in 'our' eras and it is their sport now, and good luck to them they have inherited a great, I hope they realize that.

 

Likewise, I don't blame baseball purists who abandoned the sport when steroids became exposed as Major League Baseball's home run savior after the cancellation of the 1994 World Series threatened to turn it into a minor sport like boxing, or resent MLB for creating divisions and later wild card entries.

No, boxing is no longer the sport I was once a fan of [and certainly people like Howard Cosell and Flash Gordon also turned their backs on it completely] and a restoration of the championship distance can never bring back all the history which has already been lost since Ramirez-Rosario I.

I'm here to share in what I'd already known, remembered and hadn't forgotten when I turned away from boxing forever. I have pleasant memories of a bygone era, but they're just that, memories. Rock & Roll is also long since dead. Yes, I have contemporary interests, but I sharply compartmentalize them from my participation here. [I did commit the error of broaching a few of those interests in the Lounge, so I don't mind that these stray mentions were eradicated with the Lounge closure itself.]

 

Bobby Chacon vs Rafael Limon IV December 11, 1982

Did this fight feature two all time greats? No. Was this a big spectacle like a Hagler-Hearns/ Pryor-Arguello/ Leonard-Duran? No. But this fight goes beyond all of that, these two men push each other to superhuman capabilities. This fight is f***in madness, two men with that much heart meeting in the squared circle should have resulted in death.

 

Arguello/Pryor IMO

Hagler/Hearns is hard to top for excitement but it was a little too short.

Duran/Barkley deserves a mention. That bout was class all the way. You know when the loser fights the greatest fight of his career it must have been special.

 

All those great fights listed above ^ makes it impossible to decide which one was the best. Seen them all and they were great!

What a time that was for pro boxing. Every weekend there were great bouts whether on CBS or Telemundo. All of them on free tv!

 

You don't watch boxing anymore? You're missing out on some excellent fights and fighters. Give the modern era a try; you just might be pleasantly surprised.

I do agree that it's not the sport it was though, but there is still a lot to like about boxing.

 

Duran-Leonard I
Leonard-Hearns I
Pryor-Arguello I
Hagler-Hearns


These would,and have,figure in most of us fight fans lists.