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So many to choose from...
Duran vs Leonard 1
Chacon vs Limon 4
Chacon vs Boza 1 and 2
Saad va Lopez 2
Pryor vs Arguello 1
Mccauley vs Bassa 1
Murphy vs Mutti
Anything with Frank Animal Fletcher in....
Anything with Kelvin seabrooks in.... :wink: :wink: :wink: :roll: 8)

Bramble -Mancini 1 should be mentioned

Out of all the ones people have listed here, Chacon-Boza II gets my vote.

Hagler v Hearns
Sanchez v Gomez
Arguello v Pryor 1
Leonard v Hearns 1
Duran v Leonard 1

Those 1980's were just fantastic..

MightyWarrior wrote:Hagler v Hearns
Sanchez v Gomez
Arguello v Pryor 1
Leonard v Hearns 1
Duran v Leonard 1

Those 1980's were just fantastic..

The last great decade in boxing in my opinion. When the world title scene was still transparent. When the best fighters still met each other. When the term 'world champion' made you a big name.

Yeah too true. What was the richest fight of the 80's, Holmes v Cooney?

MightyWarrior wrote:Yeah too true. What was the richest fight of the 80's, Holmes v Cooney?

Not sure, but it still holds the record for the largest crowd ever to attend a boxing show in Vegas:

29,214 Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney
24,570 Larry Holmes vs. Muhammad Ali
23,306 Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns I
18,361 Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Hector Camacho
16,279 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II
16,143 Mike Tyson vs. Frank Bruno II
16,113 Mike Tyson vs. Pete McNeeley
16,103 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I
14,738 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio Cesar Chavez
14,261 Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor II


Source: Nevada State Athletic Commission

Cheers bennie - I recall Harry Mullan picked Cooney to win didn't he?
Harry wasn't Irish by any chance was he?!

hard to believe Chavez/Macho is up there so high!!

How about... Gomez vs Pintor...
Murphy vs Mutti...
Johnson vs embe...

MightyWarrior wrote:Yeah too true. What was the richest fight of the 80's, Holmes v Cooney?

Tyson v Spinks, I think

Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard I.

Easy, two warriors, going at it for 15 rounds hitting eachother with bombs that would have dropped most mortals.

Hearns vs Hagler is overrated, besides the first round, it was fairly average.

Pryor-Arguello I for sure!

Hagler-Hearns is over-rated. 1st round is spectacular but the other two rounds are just Hearns habbing and trying to stay away from Marvin . . nothing too great.

For me it's probably Matthew Saad-Lopez II. Saad was in so many amazing barn-burners it is unreal.

Best fight in terms of action I have to go with Chacon vs Limon 4 brutal
Chacon vs Boza 2 was another exciting fight. Chacon did make for great action fighter, too bad his defense was very poor.

1. Chacon vs Limon 4
2. Hagler vs Hearns
3. Chacon vs Boza 2
4. Gomez vs Pintor best 12 round ever in my opinion. Very under-rated fight.
5. Pryor vs Arguello 1

1.Pryor/Arguello
2. Saad/Lopez 2
3. Chacon/Limon 4
4. Holy/Qawi
5. Davila/Duarte 2

I gotta go with Chacon vs Bazooka Limon IV as the best fight of the 80s. It was probably the best fight that I have ever seen. Then, I will go with Leonard vs Hearns I. What a fight.

Salvador Sanchez-Azumah Nelson
Matthew Saad Muhammad-Jerry Martin.

I haven't seen all the big fights of the 80's, but I have seen several of the fights mentioned on here so far. My favorite that I've seen of the 80's has to be Chacon vs Limon IV what a battle every round was like Round 10 of Bowe-Holyfield 1, and it comes to a huge climactic ending. One of the greatest fights I've ever seen.

A lower level fight between Bill "Caveman" Lee vs John Lo Cicero was every bit as dramatic as Lyle/Foreman if you ask me, just at a lower level of the sport.

Those are probably my 2 absolute favorites from the 80's that I've seen

Richie Aprille rules wrote:

MightyWarrior wrote:Yeah too true. What was the richest fight of the 80's, Holmes v Cooney?

Tyson v Spinks, I think

Tyson was paid $22,000,000, Spinks $13,000,000!

I wonder how much Donald Trump paid for the site fee?

It doesn't get much better than Chacon-Limon IV, Arguello-Pryor was superb but I would just go for Chacon/Limon!