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The heavyweight scene of the 1970's was and is greatly revered for it's great fighters and great fights. The contenders mostly all fought one another.

However the 1980's , 1990's and 00's produced some tremendous fights : -

I put forward as great fights : -

Holyfield vs Dokes - 1980's
Morrison vs Ruddock - 1990's
Brewster vs Liakhovich - 2000's

Not saying these were the best but they were great fights : - What favourites do you guys have?

Would be very interested to hear. I will put a few more forward when I remember them .

evrenb

Tyson vs Holyfield 1
Bowe vs Holyfield

Lewis-vitali
Tua-ibeabuchi

bigcheese wrote:Lewis-vitali
Tua-ibeabuchi

Yeah good call.

evrenb wrote:

bigcheese wrote:Lewis-vitali
Tua-ibeabuchi

Yeah good call.

Holyfield vs Bert Cooper was a great fight! There goes that man Holyfield again.!

evrenb wrote:

evrenb wrote:

bigcheese wrote:Lewis-vitali
Tua-ibeabuchi

Yeah good call.

Holyfield vs Bert Cooper was a great fight! There goes that man Holyfield again.!

The amount of upercuts Cooper ate in that fight made me cringe. He was a very tough dude, just a few notches below evender in terms of skill and athleticism.

Moorer v cooper
Lewis v Bruno
Morrison v mercer
Cooper v mercer
Mercer v Lewis
Morrison v hip
Moorer v Stewart
holyfield v Stewart 1

Alex Stewart vs Ezra Sellers - wild affair

Pretty much any fight with bert cooper or holyfield pre lewis is great

Mercer v Cooper was pretty good

These were great heavyweight fights, too:

Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman
George Foreman vs Alex Stewart
Buster Douglas vs Mike Tyson
Tim Witherspoon vs Frank Bruno
Mike Tyson vs Razor Ruddock I and II

Byrd/Tua -- impressive performance by Byrd

Tyson/Tillis -- Mike's toughest test before Douglas

Bowe/Tubbs -- competitive fight

Bowe/Gonzalez -- good lead-up and great performance by Riddick

Mercer/Witherspoon -- competitive fight, not sure if I agree w/decision

Tua/Izonritei -- Izon was game and made for a good fight

90s: Bowe-Golota II

Shpati wrote:90s: Bowe-Golota II

Absolutely. I thought of including it, but the ending ruins it

Damiani v Mercer was good as well....Damiani was a very tidy boxer and just a shade away from being a proper player in the division.

Looked like he trained on whole vats of his Mama's pasta, ice cream and a cellar of good Chianti...but the guy could fight a bit and Mercer stills calls him out as one of the very best men he faced and admitted that he needed to find a shot that night. Francesco was at the London Olympics with the Italian team and actually looked a bit trimmer than when he was fighting.

Mercer also deserves some props....as mentioned by earlier posters.

I notice that very few of the picks are from the 1980's. Im sure there were more great Heavyweight fights in the 1980's.
This decade probably represented the best decade in Boxing history. It is right up there anyway.

80s:

Earnie Shavers vs Bernardo Mercado, Jeff Sims

Carl Williams vs Jesse Ferguson

Leon Spinks vs Bernardo Mercado

Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney, Bonecrusher Smith, Tim Witherspoon, David Bey, Carl Williams

Pinklon Thomas vs Mike Weaver

Mike Weaver vs Gerrie Coetzee

Greg Page vs Gerrie Coetzee

Michael Dokes vs Mike Weaver I & II

Gerrie Coetzee vs Michael Dokes

Trevor Berbick vs Greg Page

Greg Page vs Quick Tillis

Renaldo Snipes vs Gerrie Coetzee, Trevor Berbick, Johnny DuPlooy

Evander Holyfield vs Michael Dokes

Mark Wills vs Greg Page I

Tyrell Biggs vs David Bey

And who could forget 1988's Renaldo Snipes vs Lionel Washington! An outrageous punchup!

Terry Dooley wrote:I've always had a soft spot for Dokes-Weaver II and Holmes-Snipes/Witherspoon/Williams. Plus Williams-Weaver.

Domes v Weaver 2 is a good call, not seen it in years, you tube going on now