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MightyWarrior wrote:

chesh wrote:Tommy Hearns v Pipino Cuevas - exciting while it lasted.

One of the most awesome performances I've ever seen, the fight that hooked me on boxing. Hearns big test against the X Rated Mexican bone breaker, and he took him out in brutal & clinical style, barely breaking a sweat. I don't think he took a punch in return.

Agreed,Hearns was never better in my opinion.

Curry v McCory was one of the quickest left hooks i've seen

Old bones Ian wrote:Curry v McCory was one of the quickest left hooks i've seen

Probably the quickest and one of the most impressive wins in a "superfight" you'll ever see. He almost knocked Marvin off the top spot with that one.

Emerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:Basilio v De Marco 1
Stracey v Napoles

stracey are you avin a bubble??? that was napoles nan in there.

dlh v tito or mosely.

MightyWarrior wrote:

stujones wrote:
Maurice Blocker vs Simon Brown was a fantastic fight.

Better than Brown v Trice??

Glad to see some other Simon Brown fans here, one of the most underrated champs i think.
Shame he never held onto his money, think he needed help from the 'fist' organisation after his boxing career ended

MightyWarrior wrote:

Old bones Ian wrote:Curry v McCory was one of the quickest left hooks i've seen

Probably the quickest and one of the most impressive wins in a "superfight" you'll ever see. He almost knocked Marvin off the top spot with that one.

Yeah, Curry really was the bee knees at that point. Tszyu vs Judah and Hatton vs Pacquiao compare, but I am struggling to think of anyone else.

DLH V Tito

Leonard v Hearns I
De la Hoya v Mosley I
Jones v Mccrory I
Cotto v Margarito

Some great forgotten classics here.
Keep 'em coming.

Adios.

I honestly believe any fight with Pretty Boy Floyd in at the weight is a good watch - not a classic but the man is the big draw in the sport.

Could you imagine if Floyd v Pacman was made at Welterweight - a very possible fight - what a fight.

Mayorga V's Forrest 1 was brutal and totally unexpected after Vernon had comprehensively beaten a prime Mosley twice.

I feel both Jones-McCrory fights were great.

For some reason I'm not a great welterweight fan, but Simon Brown was in great fights & I'm glad he's been brought up: 1st with Tyrone Trice is an awesome 15-round war, 2nd was exciting if I recall right, Maurice Blocker bout had good action. Was Brown v Pettway - another wild one, Browd KO'd, throwing punches on his back - at 147 or 154?

Brown and Curry didn't have longevity, but for their inspired work done in a short-ish period, I feel they deserve a chance of getting in the Hall of Fame. Not all time greats, but they did some truly outstanding work before all went wrong.

Spud wrote:I honestly believe any fight with Pretty Boy Floyd in at the weight is a good watch - not a classic but the man is the big draw in the sport.

Could you imagine if Floyd v Pacman was made at Welterweight - a very possible fight - what a fight.

Mayweather a great defensive fighter, never been in a great fight, never will be. very little rewatch value unfortunately

Ahhh the classic fights - you know the fights we could watch without dipping further into or pockets for the PPV side of things!!!

Pay the licence fee - but then you have to pay sky and Setanta and then for the big fights its PPV money on top !!!

Bring back the good old days - they got the money from somewhere in those days!!! without all of this PPV b*llocks and we saw some classics on our screens!!!

I bet Buncey wont mention that rant!!!

Autobarn wrote:

Spud wrote:I honestly believe any fight with Pretty Boy Floyd in at the weight is a good watch - not a classic but the man is the big draw in the sport.

Could you imagine if Floyd v Pacman was made at Welterweight - a very possible fight - what a fight.

Mayweather a great defensive fighter, never been in a great fight, never will be. very little rewatch value unfortunately

No way mate!!! - he is a fantastic watch and a fantastic boxer - love to watch him fight.

Spud wrote: Bring back the good old days - they got the money from somewhere in those days!!! without all of this PPV b*llocks

And the fighters didn't get paid what they are today.

Hagler2002 wrote:

Spud wrote: Bring back the good old days - they got the money from somewhere in those days!!! without all of this PPV b*llocks

And the fighters didn't get paid what they are today.

Benn, Eubank, Collins, Watson, McGuigan, Bruno to name a few did very well out of the sport on our terrestrial screens.

yeah okay they went onto Sky eventually - but terrestrial tv did stump up the cash.

Undercard fighters for 4-6 round fights get paid anything between 1800 and 3000 - Boxing has some very hard choices - stop being greedy and get the sport stabilised that means a bit of cost cutting - but we simply have to keep the sport on our screens.

Spud wrote:

Hagler2002 wrote:

Spud wrote: Bring back the good old days - they got the money from somewhere in those days!!! without all of this PPV b*llocks

And the fighters didn't get paid what they are today.

Benn, Eubank, Collins, Watson, McGuigan, Bruno to name a few did very well out of the sport on our terrestrial screens.

My guess is the for-mentioned fighters made peanuts on terrestrial TV compared to what sky paid them excluding the Benn-Eubank fights.

Clearly Sky paid more - my point is - peanuts is not a phrase I would use for what ITV used to pay out - before Sky came around and really upped the anti.

Spud wrote:Clearly Sky paid more - my point is - peanuts is not a phrase I would use for what ITV used to pay out - before Sky came around and really upped the anti.

Ask any professional sportsman/women what they were paid before Sky came along and everyone of them will tell you it was peanuts.

James Buddy McGirt v Simon Brown. Buddy put a boxing clinic on the weight drained Jamaican. Never tire of watching that one!

mark breland vs aaron davis - wba welterweight title from 1990.

under rated classic.

hitman_hatton1 wrote:mark breland vs aaron davis - wba welterweight title from 1990.

under rated classic.

Good shout. Superman upset the apple cart in that one..

Charlie Zelenoff V's Andrew Hartley

A classic in its own right! it was wrong, very wrong but historic.

Old bones Ian wrote:

MightyWarrior wrote:

stujones wrote:
Maurice Blocker vs Simon Brown was a fantastic fight.

Better than Brown v Trice??

Glad to see some other Simon Brown fans here, one of the most underrated champs i think.
Shame he never held onto his money, think he needed help from the 'fist' organisation after his boxing career ended

Big Simon Brown fan myself - as you say he was an under rated, under stated champ.

For those who haven't seen his WAR with Tyrone Trice there is a watchable version of this fight hosted on youtube:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rIyGnjENM

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_E759SO ... re=related

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7a_24I9 ... re=related

Those are the first 9 rounds at least.

It needs a 4th & 5th part to finish the fight off but I can't see them on youtube