* Classic Fights Thread *

Paully D · 17-12-2011 12:25am #1

I'll start with this great fight:

Amir Kahn V Marcos Maidana - December 11th 2010 - Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas - 2010 Fight of the Year

Khan was odds on favourite and dominated the fight early, knocking down Maidana in the 1st round with multiple body shots. It seemed that Maidana would be doing well to hang in there for a couple of rounds....

Full fight available to watch hosted on Video BB on the link below:

http://www.videobb.com/video/jQqTlfxJNlmA

cowzerp · 17-12-2011 12:35am

Classic fights and thats the starter-cant top that so i'm out!

Johner · 17-12-2011 2:24am

Here's one of my favourites,

Castillo V Corrales.

full fight here, when you get time watch it.

http://vimeo.com/6157932

And here's round 10 the greatest round I've ever seen, still gives me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZaiGJgbsw

djhaxman · 17-12-2011 10:56am

My favourite fight ever, round 5 was just unreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjBexyCXh9Q

cowzerp · 17-12-2011 12:05pm

Barrera v morales trilogy was great

Holyfield v Bowe trilogy was too

walshb · 17-12-2011 6:32pm

I like the tread, but maybe an "obscure" classics would be even better. We always get the same old classics being thrown out here.

My obscure classic fight is Hagler-Mugabi, which featured one of the best rds in ring history. Rd 6. This rd to me beats rd 10 in the Castillo-Coralles scrap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23K7d5SWrPM

BTW, how do you link youtube like it is above, so we all can view without having to click on a link first?

theavenger · 17-12-2011 6:37pm

So many great fights to choose from so I'm gonna jump in with my favourite round ever

Ward v gatti first fight
Round 9

walshb · 17-12-2011 6:41pm

theavenger wrote: »

So many great fights to choose from so I'm gonna jump in with my favourite round ever

Ward v gatti first fight
Round 9

Hell of a round. I think probaly the best of all time. Even better than Rd 1 in the Hearns-Hagler scrap.

gene_tunney · 17-12-2011 6:59pm

theavenger wrote: »

So many great fights to choose from so I'm gonna jump in with my favourite round ever

Ward v gatti first fight
Round 9

I almost fukkin creamed my pants the first time I saw that fight and that round. I was actually borderline in shock. This fight took my interest in boxing to the next level. Gatti remains my favourite boxer.

theavenger · 17-12-2011 7:09pm

gene_tunney wrote: »

I almost fukkin creamed my pants the first time I saw that fight and that round. I was actually borderline in shock. This fight took my interest in boxing to the next level. Gatti remains my favourite boxer.

As I was an extremely young lad at the time of this fight, it was the reason I started following boxing.

walshb · 17-12-2011 7:11pm

gene_tunney wrote: »

I almost fukkin creamed my pants the first time I saw that fight and that round. I was actually borderline in shock. This fight took my interest in boxing to the next level. Gatti remains my favourite boxer.

Think you would have enjoyed the fight even more had you not been tugging at yourself.

walshb · 17-12-2011 7:11pm

McGuigan-Pedroza and McGuigan-Cruz are two brilliant scraps.

Littlehorny · 17-12-2011 7:13pm

Was gonna say Ward vs Gatti 1 myself aswell, great post Walshb, Hagler is my fav of all time could watch him fight all day long. One of my favs is actually quite a poor fight but i could watch Barrera knocking Hamed around the ring ten times and still not get tired of it, just could not stand the arrogant little prick.

walshb · 17-12-2011 7:16pm

Littlehorny wrote: »

Was gonna say Ward vs Gatti 1 myself aswell, great post Walshb, Hagler is my fav of all time could watch him fight all day long. One of my favs is actually quite a poor fight but i could watch Barrera knocking Hamed around the ring ten times and still not get tired of it, just could not stand the arrogant little prick.

Yes, that fight was tame. Hamed was just exposed. Looked so ordinary and poor when faced with a good and skilled and tough fighter. All that leaping in with wild and looped shots didn't work against MAB.

gene_tunney · 17-12-2011 7:46pm

walshb wrote: »

Think you would have enjoyed the fight even more had you not been tugging at yourself.

phily2002 · 17-12-2011 9:32pm

a few of my favorites

Tua-Ibeabuchi - awsome heavyweight scrap
Arthur-Gomez - love this fight, short but sweet!!
Julio César Chávez v. Meldrick Taylor I
Micky Ward v. Emanuel Augustus
Vazquez-Marquez triology

megadodge · 17-12-2011 10:33pm

Mahyar Monshipour vs Somsak Sithchatchawal

Total non-stop brutality.

Just watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGYnc2XJiE

megadodge · 17-12-2011 10:43pm

George Foreman v Ron Lyle

Starts off good, but then goes completely f*ckin mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96KfeAFakak

johnnybmac · 17-12-2011 11:06pm

Okay, probably a bit populist , but Ali Vs Frazier Part 1 for me... Great documentsry about it here:

http://documentaryheaven.com/ali-frazier-i-one-nation-divisible/

megadodge · 17-12-2011 11:09pm

For those of you who love Arturo Gatti, here's the 1970's version - Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin).

Matthew Saad Muhammad v Marvin Johnson I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8_3tAsHrGA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLB19B009A7F0B5016

Matthew Saad Muhammad v Yaqui Lopez II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZ63OfA60k&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL9D201512C25FBFD6

megadodge · 17-12-2011 11:28pm

How could anyone not love this guy.

The real-life Rocky.

The most exciting fighter ever.

Arturo Gatti.

Gatti v Wilson Rodriguez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPF_Sdc6990

Gatti v Gabe Ruelas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_qq_FTIeE&feature=related

Gatti v Ivan Robinson I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Lk_zk9Luo

Gatti v Ward I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAM7bqTsQOY&feature=related

minty16 · 17-12-2011 11:41pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FIRrG-0oY&feature=fvwrel

Electric, and one of our own. The best fight I have ever seen.

megadodge · 17-12-2011 11:44pm

Bobby Chacon was not unlike Gatti either in the early 80's.

Chacon v Bazooka Limon IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yegmQ2fGs

Chacon v Conelius Boza Edwards II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQOLZhOXyg

megadodge · 17-12-2011 11:55pm

Miguel Cotto gets a serious shock in this not-so-well known fight.

Cotto v Ricardo Torres

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RrgG7JS_U

megadodge · 18-12-2011 12:19am

For sheer courage and desire to take the title, this effort from the great Azumah Nelson (then a complete novice and late sub) v the great Salvador Sanchez takes some beating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllfooQQcZM

walshb · 20-12-2011 12:43am

Hey Mega, give someone else a chance. We're almost out of fights.

Love Gomez-Pintor

Super scrap.

handsomecake · 20-12-2011 8:36am

mayweather vs gatti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeRlacvPBs

he beat him like a red headed step child.

The Prodigy 2 · 20-12-2011 9:46pm

Cant see how this wasn't mentioned..

Riddock Bowe v Evander holyfield trilogy ! WOW

The Prodigy 2 · 20-12-2011 9:54pm

The Prodigy 2 wrote: »

Woops ! only seen the first page there

walshb · 21-12-2011 4:15pm

The Prodigy 2 wrote: »

Cant see how this wasn't mentioned..

Riddock Bowe v Evander holyfield trilogy ! WOW

That first fight is one of the finest fights ever. It simply reiterated why this sport at its best is the best sport on earth, and also, that the heavyweight champion is/was is the most famous/revered athlete on earth.

megadodge · 26-12-2011 12:27am

Why Nigel Benn was so good to watch.

Benn v Anthony Logan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PThM2abBKkk

tryingmybestt · 03-01-2012 8:35pm

Chavez v Taylor 1
Trinidad v Vargas
De La Hoya V Vargas
Foreman V Lyle
Benn v McClellan
Arguello v Olivares
Duran v Barkley

LordSutch · 03-01-2012 8:43pm

Larry Holmes V Kenny Norton 1978'

walshb · 04-01-2012 3:28pm

Not sure if many have seen Toney-McCallum 1. If not, then see it. Nothing major exciting, but technically it's pure class. Plenty of action, but very subtle and skilled action, as opposed to your all out wars.

megadodge · 02-03-2012 9:45pm

I just love this fight!!

Maybe Rocky wasn't that far-fetched.

Jorge Castro v John David Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMPwPVmUPPE

plasmaguy · 02-03-2012 10:50pm

It's probably been posted already, but this one rates up there. Insane fight.

Foreman v Lyle 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzlHZH8A0M&feature=related

keane=cock · 03-03-2012 4:23pm

morales and maidana was a cracker i thought

walshb · 03-03-2012 4:47pm

keane=cock wrote: »

morales and maidana was a cracker i thought

I agree, absolute bruiser. I love fights where you can see clean connections.

Hate them fights with certain boxers who seem to clip, miss and hit mostly arms and elbows. A Steve Collins fight, for example.

plasmaguy · 03-03-2012 9:10pm

Maybe not a classic fight, but demonstrates the power of Earnie Shavers.

It was said that George Foreman did his best to avoid Shavers in his career, he even admitted as much in interviews in later years.

About 2.20 into the video when he floors Holmes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6qQ50SpPw

To be a world champ in those days, you had to be tough as nails, even Ali took some punishment.

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