Your 5 favorite fights ever?

My favourite and my picks for the best are completely different. My favourites are, in any order:

Saad vs Pops I
Watson vs Benn
Charles vs Marshall II
Hagler vs Duran
Morales vs Pacquiao I

Lots of different reasons as to why, but it basically comes down to seeing my favourite fighters either at their best of their most entertaining.

 

My favourites are a mix of the ones I enjoy most and think are the best.

 

I was at that Marquez-Diaz I fight in Houston. Definitely among my favorite live fights/moments in boxing. I’ll fill you in about how cool the weekend was I’m PM sometime.

 

Random order

Foreman-Lyle
Castillo-Olivares 2
Duran-Barkley
Leonard-Hearns 1
Saad-Johnson 1

 

That's the correct answer, it's impossible. I might list 5 but then watch some on you tube, fights that I'd forgotten and it'd change. Being a Roberto Duran fan the Barkley fight is epic, the Foreman Lyle explosion is the greatest slugfest in heavyweight history. There are just sooo many to select from.

 

Duran - Leonard 1 is way out for me as well.
Morales - Pac 1
Duran - Barkley
Duran - Dejesus 2
Struggling to pick the last one.
Sanchez - Nelson perhaps

 

It’s not a definitive top 5, but Corrales-Castillo 1 is my favorite

Corrales-Castillo 1
Trinidad-Vargas
Barrera-Morales 1
Ali-Frazier 3
Robinson-Gatti 1

 

Marciano-Walcott I...
Hagler-Hearns...
Dempsey-Firpo...
Marciano-Moore...(round 6)..
Ali-Frazier I...

 

Top of my head?

Barrera-Morales 1
Pacquiao-Morales 1
De La Hoya-Vargas
Graziano-Zale (any of them)
Duran-Leonard 1

Would need to think more and could probably come up with a whole new list

 

I'd love to do that, but in Watson's case, that fight ended up in him getting brain damage so it doesn't work.

 

That's why I don't have fights like that on my list - because I can't be completely objective about that. McClellan-Benn is worthy of a place and when I watched that one at the time, I was screaming the house down for Benn but I think I've only seen it once since then. It was a great fight but I can't watch it.

 

Leonard vs Hearns #1
Leonard vs Duran Montreal.
Pryor vs Arguello #1
Leonard vs Benitez
Ali vs Frazier Fight of the century

 

Hard to pick just 5, but looking through this thread I'm generating a huge list of fights to go look up and watch.

 

Durelle/ Moore 1
Kotey/Lopez 1
Duran /Lampkin
Gomez/Pintor
Basilio/DeMarco 1

Prob lots more really...

 

1. Saad Muhammud vs Yacqui Lopez 2
2. Roberto Duran vs Estaban DeJeus 2
3. Bert Cooper vs Evander Holyfield
4 .Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali 1
5. Felix Trinidad vs Fernando Vargas

Honorable Mention to James "Buddy" McGirt's paint job on Simon Brown.