Boxing's greatest fight?

[yorkshire gripper]

In the aftermath of what turned out to be a good little discussion about the best punchers in boxing, this often asked question once again returned to my mind. Now, as we all know it's very hard to put your finger on your own personal best, so just throw a few out there.

The reason behind your choices could be Pure Excitement, Historical Importance, a Clash of Styles, an Unexpected Result, a Comeback, a Technical Masterclass, a Big Knockout etc etc.....

Number 1 for me has got to be Deigo Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo 1
Some more are Winky Wright vs Felix Trinidad, Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jake LaMotta 6, Benn vs McClellan, Hagler vs Hearns, Tony Zale vs Rocky Graziano 3, Leonard vs Hearns 1.......... Man I could go on and on.

[boxingbrit]

Benn McClellan, Gatti Ward, Benn eubank 2,

[jayjay]

rocky v jersey walcott

[yorkshire gripper]

Benn McClellan, Gatti Ward, Benn eubank 2,

Gatti Ward - man you haven't lived if you haven't seen that fight, great call

[hfa/boxing]

Hagler vs Hearns

[HereComesBod]

Hagler vs Hearns

[BellatorGero]

Hagler/Hearns or domestically Rigby/Ayres was great. More recently Vassell/Purdey was one of the best I've seen in a long time.

[jayjay]

jake lemmot hade some classics and jack hohnson

[boxingbrit]

Rigby Ayres was a cracker. Wayne is tough

[yorkshire gripper]

jake lemmot hade some classics and jack hohnson

I take it that's LaMotta and Jack Johnson. Yeah LaMotta was in some classics.

[BellatorGero]

Rigby Ayres was a cracker. Wayne is tough

They had a rematch if I remember right and both fight got fight of the year!

[Romeoblood]

Best fight I've EVER seen was khan v prescott

simple because of the look on khans face after he stood up from the first Knockdown, it was priceless! haha

I did enjoy watching Chris Eubank back in the day as well, he was the man!

rumour has it Christoper Eubank (Jnr) is gonna b boxing on the 2012 olympic squad, if hes half as good as his old man, then hes gonna be one to watch

[The Natural]

rumour has it Christoper Eubank (Jnr) is gonna b boxing on the 2012 olympic squad, if hes half as good as his old man, then hes gonna be one to watch

this is never the case unfortunately. Sons, as far as i can recall, are never in the same league unfortunately.

Hagler and hearns was the most entertaining 3 rounds of boxing that i have ever seen!!

[Barracuda187]

this is never the case unfortunately. Sons, as far as i can recall, are never in the same league unfortunately.

Hagler and hearns was the most entertaining 3 rounds of boxing that i have ever seen!!

Er......PBF? :cool:

[hurricane]

Juan Manuel Marquez v Juan Diaz was awesome

[thaison]

Ali for Frazier in Manilla is up there, ive watched it about 20-25 times and cant get my head round whats keeping them going in those conditions.

Ward v gatti 2, 1 and 3 were also awesome

gatti v ruelas

benn v Mccleland

earl v katsidis

hagler v hearns

My fav fight of all time is Julio ceasar Chaves v meldrick Taylor way back in 1990 not long after i had first went to a boxing gym. check it out here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3xec0RFN

[Dmjohn2000]

Ryan Rhodes vs Jamie Moore was a awesome domestic fight. Barring that Gatti vs ward one

[The Natural]

Er......PBF? :cool:

Anomally? :)

I cant recall many world class 'sons'

[Romeoblood]

Floyd Mayweather snr...

top boxer

Floyd Mayweather jnr...

world class boxer (even if he is a bit of a knob)

I rest my case!

I do see your point though, he may not be as good as his old boy

hope he is though cus big chris was the dude back in the day, even for a boxer of his time(and there were many good uns) he was phenomenal!

[Jawz]

Personally i couldn't have Benn vs Mcclellan purely because of what happened to Mcclellan during the fight. Kinda disturbing to see him deteriorate as the fight progressed(eyes, breathing etc) and especially knowing what state he's in now, still an amazing fight though. Shows he had crazy heart to fight on with a blood clot in his brain against a fighter of Benns caliber.

Always love to watch any Gatti fight, in victory or defeat.

Morales - Barrera 1 aswell.

[apex]

Some great fights out there .....but GATTI v WARD takes #1 spot for me!

[AdamB]

graeme earl v katsidis, what a fight. True fighters heart showed by earl!!!

[Nimmy]

i loved eubank vs collins, was just getting into boxing and you have this big lad with a shamrock cut into his hair under some kind of hypnosis, eubank coming in to simply the best like a big panther was special too.

i think boxing needs to bring back the big entrances like Prince Naseem, Chris Eubank and Apollo Creed :D

[shakus maximus]

Benn v Iran Berkley is one of my favorite matches
benn shows what the definition of a warrior is in this match

Benn v mclelland is my altime favorite but it was tarnished by whhat happened sadly to mclelland.

[Dave78]

Benn v mclelland is my altime favorite but it was tarnished by whhat happened sadly to mclelland.

agreed

also, Leonard vs Hagler and Ali or Tyson vs pretty much anybody when they were their prime

[cool hand luke]

Hagler Vs Hearns
Gatti Vs Ward 1, 2 and 3
Morales vs Barraera
Benn vs Mclennan
Pacqioua vs Marquez

[Yak]

castilllo vs corralles (that come back amongst THE best ever by RIP coralles)
morales vs barrera

[para74]

Hagler Vs Hearns
Gatti Vs Ward 1, 2 and 3

[illegalhunter]

Rumble in the Jungle

[Bushido Challenge]

Benn v Iran Berkley is one of my favorite matches
benn shows what the definition of a warrior is in this match

Benn v mclelland is my altime favorite but it was tarnished by whhat happened sadly to mclelland.

Benn was tough till he quit

[Flashing Blade]

Benn v McClennan
Duran v Leonard 1

Domestic

Jamie Moore v Matthew Macklin

[iinfotech10]

Foreman, Ali, Frazier, they all boxed in legendary fights. Which was the greatest boxing match ever? Was it the 'Rumble in the Jungle?' or maybe the 'The Thrilla in Manila.' Rate these great boxing matches on what you think was the greatest one of all. If there is a legendary bout that you think belongs on the list, Add it!!
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[WCR]

My favorites are the usual suspects:

Gatti Vs Ward Trilogy
Eubank Vs Benn I
Castillo Vs Corrales
Hagler Vs Hearns

Moore Vs Macklin was fukcin awesome too.

[marylinda1]

Hagler/Hearns or domestically Rigby/Ayres was great. More recently Vassell/Purdey was one of the best I've seen in a long time.

jake lemmot hade some classics and jack hohnson

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[yok0ross]

Barrera vs Moralez III

[Reedy]

Uk fights
Benn V Watson
Watson V Eubank II

Anyone ever see benn V Logan. Crazy stuff.

[gingerninja1967]

To many good ones. Can't single one out. But for just a Scottish fight how about watt vs Buchanan!

[boxingbrit]

I have posted already but the more i think about it the more it cant be anything but Benn/ McClellan

[matmccarthy]

gatti v ward, hearns v hagler, robinson v turpin.


watched a belter the other night with a mad ending,julio ceaser green vs lonny beasley great fight

[machete]

Castillo v coralles 1, has everything an all time great fight needs.

[wandshogun09]

Couple of recent ones I really enjoyed

Pacquiao vs Margarito

and the Juan Manuel Lopez vs Rafael Marquez from this month, which for me has been the best boxing match of the year so far.

Some cracking fights in this thread. Some of my all time favourite fights in no particular order

Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward all 3 fights
Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo 1
Marvin Hagler vs Tommy Hearns
Nigel Benn vs Chris Eubank 1 & 2
Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier 3 Thrilla in Manilla
Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman Rumble in the Jungle
Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard 1
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan
Juan Manuel Marquez vs Juan Diaz 1
Ryan Rhodes vs Jamie Moore
Michael Katsidis vs Graeme Earl
Jamie Moore vs Matthew Macklin
Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez 1
Erik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera

And a few that haven't been mentioned

Carl Froch vs Jean Pascal
Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito
Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman
Kelly Pavlik vs Jermain Taylor 1
Ricky Hatton vs Kostya Tszyu
Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe 1
Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas
Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler

Can't go wrong with any of them fights

[HomerPlata]

Ward-Gatti I was hands down the best, pound for pound, and other clichés, fight ever. Goin slightly off on a tangent here, but no MMA fight is ever likely to come close - not because of some pointless Boxing > MMA argument - but it was 30 full minutes of intensity during which neither man would give an inch, and either man could have won going into the 10th. I'm getting emotional thinking about. I'm not gay or owt.

[IceKid]

agree with ward-gatti.

hearns vs hagler had one of the best rounds ever.

[ColliflowerBum]

Haye vs Harrison lol