What was the greatest heavyweight boxing match you’ve ever witnessed live?

Ali Frazier 3

Never before or since have I heard a crowd and in this case a packed Totowa Ice World roar back and forth as Ali then Frazier surged. Over the top excitement that left most drained afterwards.

For non hwt fights the same venue I watched Duran vs Leonard 1. Again a packed house and again constant roars from the crowd.

 

I was ringside for Bert Cooper-Michael Moorer. I was so excited early in the fight that I literally almost jumped up against the ring apron. It was a hell of a fight.

I was also at Tyson-Holyfield I. The fight itself was nowhere near as exciting as Cooper-Moorer. But, the atmosphere of that fight was surreal. Like God had pitted good against evil inside the ring. When Holyfield knocked Tyson down in the sixth round, the eruption of the crowd was like nothing I have ever witnessed in sports.

 

Diego Corrales vs Joshua Clottey

 

That was my first thought.
I gotta say Bowe/Holyfield 1. Though Bowe was in control Evander never let him get comfortable. He kept rallying.

 

Honorable Mention that some may not think of...Lewis/Mercer. Ray fought the fight of his life. He had learned to jab and was in top shape. It was only 10 rounds which is why it doesn't get thought of as much.
Two more rounds who knows?

 

One of the great heavyweight contests, certainly!

 

It's already been mentioned by @Smokin Bert but Holyfield-Tyson 1.

I doubt the eruption of noise was as impressive at the Student Union bar I was watching it at as it was live but it was still pretty loud! More like watching a football match than a boxing match. It was just great, particularly as the right guy won.

 

Never been to a top rated HW fight, but did see mike mollo vs szpilka in Chicago. Great back in forth action.

 

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I dont know how that ended up being posted in here

 

Quarry/Patterson 1. LA colasium.Fans went crazy Sonny Liston introduced.

 

Dunno. Haven’t been that many great heavyweight fights that I’ve seen live in the last 15 years or so. Maybe Lewis vs Vitali or Whyle vs Chisora.

 

The Dempsey vs Jack Johnson fight easily, it may have been a dingy boat house basement but it was thee coliseum to us! the twenty of us there where roaring with anticipation the entire time, me and a young Louis Ortiz even had the privilege of raising both champions hands for the draw!

 

Lmao at this

I read that Luis beat Joe Louis in an unrecorded exhibition in 1937, they were saying then that Ortiz was too old for an up and coming beast like Joe but Ortiz turned back the clock, a skill he has mastered, and gave Joe a hiding by all accounts

 

We need a separate forum away from the “lower class” illustrated here.