Best year of fights

[cosimo]

What do you guys think the best year was in terms of great televised fights?

Interested in your thoughts.

[gambler49]

1985

[elmersalsa]

To me, I gotta say 1982. It would have been much better that year if Sugar Ray Leonard would have never retired and Salvador Sanchez not died in the car accident. Marvin Hagler was going to fight Thomas Hearns, but Hearns hurt his finger. Then Hagler thought he was going to fight Leonard, when both were in their primes, and it did not happened.

I would have loved to see Sanchez vs Eusebio Pedroza to cap the year off.

But, 1982 indeed, was probably the best year in boxing in the 80s decade. Look at these fights:

Pryor vs Arguello I
Mancini vs Duk Koo Kim
Hearns vs Benitez
Gomez vs Pintor
Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson
Holmes vs Cooney
Qawi vs Saad Muhammad II
Chacon vs Bazooka Limon IV

A great year of a decade of great fights.

[Bricks]

1989

Barkley-Duran
Bruno-Tyson
SRL- Hearns II
Duran-SRL III (For the event)
Nunn- Kalambay (from a european perspective kalambay was slick!)
Honeyghan-Starling (genuine grudge fight)
Graham-McCallum (two talented boxers in the type of chess match which i like)
Benn-Watson (A big event in the UK)
Jackson-Norris
Holyfield-Dokes.
Ruddock-Bonecrusher.
Rise of the 88 Olympians as showcased on NBC.