Your all-time favorite boxing match?

[rog1187]

I'm going with Hagler-Leonard...I was a big fan of both when i was growing up...different styles...a lot of controversy as to how it was scored...and I think they both hate each other to this day.

 

[WhiteTailEER]

That was mine too

I liked Hagler-Hearns too, although it was much shorter

 

[op2]

Hard to pick one but Hearns-Hagler has to be near the top. *

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[PriddyBoy]

Tyson/Holyfield 1 (not the ear bite) was a good one.....

Tyson unleashed his deadly barrage and there stood Evander still throwing leather. You could see in Mike's eyes that he knew he was in trouble.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

Gatti Ward 1 **

dd

 

[Snow Sled Baby]

that's the one


followed closely by Ali-Frazier 1

 

[mneilmont]

Carmen Bacillio / Gene Fulmer Either of three(I believe)

No mas has to be up there too. Just the anticipation.

Hagler / Herns in anticipation. Ended too soon to go down as a great.

 

[Fingon]

I'm going with Hagler-Leonard...I was a big fan of both when i was growing up...different styles...a lot of controversy as to how it was scored...and I think they both hate each other to this day.

Leonard/Hearns followed by Hagler/Hearns

 

[DvlDog4WVU]

I'm going with Hagler-Leonard...I was a big fan of both when i was growing up...different styles...a lot of controversy as to how it was scored...and I think they both hate each other to this day.

Going out of the box here:

Prince Nassim Hammed vs Kevin Kelly

I never wanted to see an individual destroyed so badly as I did Nassim after the 10 minute dance intro.

 

[MikeRafone]

Hard to pick one but Hearns-Hagler has to be near the top. *

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Sweet Jeezus that was a fight! Short, but you could see one of those guys were going to drop soon, they put it all out there in the ring.

Ali-Foreman, the Rumble in The Jungle would be mine. No one was giving Ali a chance after the way Foreman destroyed Frazier in Jamaica. Smokin' Joe was never the same after that pounding.

I listened to the Ali- Foreman fight on Armed Forces Network live on shortwave. When the announcers said Ali was laying on the ropes taking a pounding, I thought "Uh-oh, Ali has either picked up some sort of tropical bug or Foreman has his number." When Ali came off the ropes and knocked him you could hear me whoopin' and hollerin' a mile away. When I saw the fight on Wide World of Sports a few weeks later it was just as good.

For sheer "WTH?" Buster Douglas knocking out Tyson late in Tokyo takes it for me. I remember watching it on HBO. I think I called everyone I knew, yelling, "Did you see that! Did you see that!"