When I say must see it can be because it was action packed, a fight for legacy, or just complete domination. Oscar De La Hoya 1. Fernando Vargas (Action/Best Career Win) 2. Shane Mosley I (Action) 3. Ike Quartey (Action/Controversial) 4. Gatti/Camacho/Mayorga (Domination) 5. Felix Trinidad (Legacy/Controversial)
Roberto Duran 1.Sugar Ray Leonard I(one of the best wins of all time) 2.Iran Barkley (wins MW title at 38,great fight) 3.Dejesus II (avenges his only loss,very good fight) 4.Ken Buckanan(very good win,controversial ending) 5.Palomino (puts on an infighting clinic against a very good fighter)
Tito Trinidad; 1. William Joppy (In his first Middleweight fight Tito slaughters thw WBA Champ, ruining him in the process) 2. Fernando Vargas (thrilling fight in which Tito finishes strong, putting Vargas down 5 times and arguably ruins him) 3. Ricardo Mayorga (after a 2 and 1/2 year absence, Tito returns to crucify the iron-chinned Mayorga, who was never the same afterwards) 4. Oba Carr (Tito gets off the canvas to out-box and ko the 32-0 Carr) 5. David Reid (after another trip to the canvas, Tito gives a career-ending beating to the unbeaten Olympic Gold medallist) It was hard to leave off the Pea and Campas fights but I think these 5 were the best to watch and I think Tito really damaged their careers.
Marco Antonio Barrera 1. Erik Morales I (Greatest fight of all time) 2. Kennedy Mckinney (One of the greatest fights of the 90s) 3. Naseem Hamed (Great performance going in as a heavy underdog) 4. Erik Morales III (Career defining victory in one of the greatest trilogies of all time) 5. Enrqiue Sanchez (One of his greatest performances against good opposition)
James Toney 1. Vassily Jirov - One of he best fights I've ever seen 2. Mike McCallum 1 - 2 P4P greats going at it 3. Michael Nunn - 2 undefeated fighters, comming from behind to win by KO 4. Iran Barkley - Trash talking leading up to the fight SCHOOLED 5. Evander Holyfield - Nobody ever dominated Evander like that Other favourites: McCallum 2, Littles, Charles Williams, Washington, Robinson, Delgado.
ray leonard 1. v hearns 1 2. v duran 1 3. v hagler 4. v lalonde 5. v hearns 2 my criteria are entertainment value and competitiveness
Rocky Marciano 1) Ezzard Charles I (His only 15 round fight. Rocco throws everything and the kitchen sink. 100+ punches thrown in the 15th round by Marciano. HWs these days could take a lesson). 2) Jersey Joe Walcott (Down on the cards but battling tough. Rocco lands the greatest 1 punch KO in HW History). 3) Archie Moore (A non-stop punching fest seeing both men hitting the canvas. Marciano brutalizes Moore in a marvelous display of non-stop punching power). 4) Marciano vs Joe Louis (Rocky takes Joe's best punches while crowding the legend. A great left hook knockdown and a brutalizing KO. A passing of the torch). 5) Marciano vs Ezzard Charles II (Definitely not the same Charles of the first fight or of his prime. But Rocco gets a split nose that could stop the fight. With only one round left granted by the ref, Rocco goes out and KOes Charles to retain his championship). Honorable Mentions: Marciano vs Walcott II (1 round uppercut), Marciano vs Rex Layne (The cost of slugging with Rocco. Brutal 1 punch KO that puts Layne in sleepy land), Marciano vs LaStarza (Rocky broke blood vessels in his arms. LaStarza needed reconstructive surgery and was never the same fighter. Rocco punished him... the first time he was in the ring with anger to hurt someone).
