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Hi folks

We all have our favourite fights - I think most of us would agree that Ward Gatti, Hearns Hagler, Holyfield Bowe etc. were pretty special but are there any great fights that don't seem to get talked about that much that you want to share?

I'm kicking things off with Clifford Etienne vs Lawrence Clay Bey.....

Derek Jefferson v. Maurice Harris

Michael Moorer vs Bert Cooper

Michael Spinks vs Yaqui Lopez

Michael Spinks vs Marvin Johnson


Just recent fights that I've watched

Michael Moorer vs Alex Stewart

Alex Stewart vs Ezra Sellers

Omar Figeroa vs Arakawa

Muangchai Kittikasem vs Jung Koo Chang

Muangchai Kittikasem vs Sot Chitalada I

Soo Hwan Hong vs Hector Carrasquilla

Tommy Morrisson vs Donovan Ruddock

Saman Sorjaturong vs Humberto Gonzalez

I couldn't even tell you how many epic club fights I have seen in the last 5 decades.
They never got press clips.They did not have espn raving about them and They were awesome.
It does not take 2 big name fighters to make for an entertaining battle.

Ray Mercer vs Bert Cooper

Dennis Berry vNeil Sinclair

Ross Hale v Mickey Driscoll

Clinton Mckenzie v Terry Marsh

Colin Power V Clinton Mckenzie

Chris Finnegan V Jonny Frankham

great call - frankham/finnegan

Sung Kil Moon vs Nana Konadu 1 - Very underrated, one of the best fight of the last 30 years IMO

Israel Vazquez vs Oscar Larios II

Vicente Mosquera vs Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai

Gil Turner vs Gene Fullmer III

Evander Holyfield vs Michael Dokes

Yuri Arbachakov vs Muangchai Kittikasem

Michael Carbajal vs Humberto Gonzalez I

Rolando Pascua vs Humberto Gonzalez

Kennedy McKinney vs Junior Jones

Naseem Hamed vs Kevin Kelley

Kompayak Porpramook v Adrian Hernandez I

Alexis Arguello v Andy Ganigan

Roman Martinez v Miguel Beltran Jr

Marco Huck v Ola Afolabi II

Jorge Arce vs Hussein Hussein

Christian Mijares vs Jorge Arce

Pernell Whitaker vs Diosbelys Hurtado

Chris Byrd vs David Tua

Yuri Arbachakov vs Hugo Rafael Soto

Woldemar wrote:Jorge Arce vs Hussein Hussein

Christian Mijares vs Jorge Arce

Pernell Whitaker vs Diosbelys Hurtado

Chris Byrd vs David Tua

Yuri Arbachakov vs Hugo Rafael Soto

You enjoyed Byrd vs Tua?

Yes.Beatiful job by Byrd.Great puncher Tua was very bad..)

Im pretty sure Holyfield vs Dokes was named fight of the year,maybe even a canidate for fight of the decade.

Woldemar wrote:Evander Holyfield vs Michael Dokes

Yuri Arbachakov vs Muangchai Kittikasem

Michael Carbajal vs Humberto Gonzalez I

Rolando Pascua vs Humberto Gonzalez

Kennedy McKinney vs Junior Jones

Naseem Hamed vs Kevin Kelley

Most of these didnt 'slip the net' though all great fights to be fair...

Props on the Chang/Kittikassem mention. Shocked nobody has brought up Lee/LoCicero. I thought that had moved around to the point that every fan knew it was greater than hagler/Hearns.

evrenb wrote:Gil Turner vs Gene Fullmer III

It may be because there were so many great middleweight fights in the 1950s and early 1960s that some of them get lost in the shuffle.

Lyle-Shavers was a brutal fight.
Young-Norton was a great fight as well.
For whatever reason, they get very little attention.

I wouldn't call it great, but I watched Leonard/Kalule the other day for the first time in ages and it's very good.

Lenny Lapaglia vs Art Jimmerson was a very entertaining fight between two relatively unknown guys. Lapaglia was a local from my neck of the woods. Pierre Coetzer vs Johnny Duplooy was a good fight too.

Steve robinson vs paul hodkinson....great great fight and atmosphere!