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What are in your opinion some of the modern classics of boxing?

Fights that every fan must see?

Fights that define modern boxing?

Ill start with

Wladimir Klitchko vs Anthony Joshua.

Change of guard for HW boxing. Great match. Shows us why AJ is the best HW currently.

Fight full of action and drama.

Graham Earl vs Michael Katsidis got me back into boxing

Castillo vs Corrales 1
Gatti vs Ward 1
Barrera vs Morales 1 (barely after 2000, but technically meets the cutoff)
Tim Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov
Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez (the whole series was good. Fights 2 and 3 being the best)
James Toney vs Vassily Jirov
Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Torres

A few kinda forgotten barnburners are Ebo Elder vs Courtney Burton and Lamon Brewster vs Sergei Liakhovich

Those are some of the first that come to mind for me.

Hobbitey123 wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018, 16:14 Graham Earl vs Michael Katsidis got me back into boxing

Katsidis' fights with Juan Manuel Marquez and Joel Casamayor were fantastic too. He came up short in those, but they were excellent fights.

Some of great fights already mentioned so i'll go with:

Vitali Lewis
Marquez Pacman fights
(these fights are classics already)
+
Glowacki Huck
Gassiev Dorticos
Lebedev Jones (despite the doping scandal)
Wlodarczyk Chakhkiev
(Cruisers are not popular but they provide a lot of entertaining fights at the highest level so i decided to mention some good CW fights)

Great that people remember the Katsidis Earl fight, i am just going to rewatch it

Somsak Sithchatchawal Vs Mahyar Monshipour (don't try saying their names, just watch the fornicating fight lol!)
Ivan Calderon Vs Giovani Segura I
Miguel Acosta Vs Richar Abril
Pornsawan Porpramook Vs Akira Yaegashi
Kompayak Porpramook Vs Adrian Hernandez I
Hernan Marquez Vs Luis Concepcion I
Roman Gonzalez Vs Juan Francisco Estrada
Katsunari Takayama Vs Juan Francisco Rodriguez

If you don't enjoy Gatti vs Ward trilogy you're not a fan of boxing
This trilogy got my daughter's interested in the sport

Ward/Augustus
DLH/Mosley 1
Mosley/Cotto
Pacquiao/Morales 1
Taylor/Wright
Williams/ Martinez 1
Fonfara/Cleverly
Canelo/GGG 1 and 2
Hopkins/Pascal 1 and 2
Froch/Pascal
Mundine/Geale 1
Adamek/Cunningham 1

Castillo - Coralles 1 (hands down)
Pacman - JMM 1
Trinidad - Vargas
Vargas - Salido
Vargas - Miura
JMM - Diaz 1

Worth mentioning was Khan vs Maidana and Gassiev vs Dorticos

Barrera-Hamed
Hopkins-Trinidad
Mayweather-Corrales
Castillo-Corrales I
Mayweather-Hatton
Hatton-Tszyu
Pacquiao-DeLaHoya
Pacquiao-Hatton
Marquez-Pacquaio I
Marquez-Pacquiao 4
Toney-Jirov
Vargas-Miura (Thanks to ezhmael for reminding me of one I had forgotten)

All combinations of Pacquiao - Morales - Barrera - Marquez.

Lackeos wrote: ↑18 Sep 2018, 22:59 All combinations of Pacquiao - Morales - Barrera - Marquez.

Particularly Pac vs JMM 4, the greatest fight of all time.

Lewis vs Vitali was definitive.

Golovkin vs Canelo 2

Ward vs Froch

Jmm vs Katsidis (1 of my favourites with Katsidis fighting with raw passion for his brother that died)

Bradley vs Provodnikov

Calzaghe vs Kessler

Martinez vs Williams 2

Pacquiao vs Cotto

Joshua vs Wlad

Usyk vs Gassiev

Maidana vs Mayweather

Lebedev/Jones is the best CW fighter I've ever seen. Great one right there. Got me into following the CW division.

Briedis/Usyk is also one of the best high-level wars too.

Cotto Vs Margarito 1
Ortiz Vs Maidaina
Pacquiao Vs Cotto
Arthur Vs Gomez
Froch Vs Kessler 1 & 2
Pavlik Vs Taylor 1
Pavlik Vs Miranda
Marquez Vs Diaz 2
Ortiz Vs Berto
Brodie Vs Chi 1
Salido Vs J.M. Lopez
Moore Vs Macklin

Damn... Looks like I have shit loads of homework to do

Hernan Marquez - Giovani Segura (insane fight)
Roman Gonzalez - Srisaket
Gonzalez - Yaegashi

Highlights of some fantastic CW fights mentioned in this topic

Glowacki vs Huck



Gassiev vs Dorticos



Lebedev vs Jones



Wlodarczyk vs Chakhkiev



Adamek vs Cunningham



Usyk vs Briedis



Why people are ruining up boxing highlights with shitty music...

Matthysse vs John Molina was a war.

Could we not put the fights people have mentioned into some sort of ranking order?

Maybe a top 20 of the 2000s onwards?

If someone has already name checked a fight there is no need to name it again or we will end up with a thousand posts saying the same thing

I'll start with the top 3....

1) Castillo Vs Corrales 1
2) Barrera Vs Morales 1
3) Gatti Vs Ward 1

dagilechia wrote: ↑19 Sep 2018, 07:21 Lebedev vs Jones



Why people are ruining up boxing highlights with shitty music...

And those white flashes. They are almost as hard to watch as Lebedevs face after the fight

Kilsby wrote: ↑19 Sep 2018, 12:05 Could we not put the fights people have mentioned into some sort of ranking order?

Maybe a top 20 of the 2000s onwards?

If someone has already name checked a fight there is no need to name it again or we will end up with a thousand posts saying the same thing

Some kind of vote for the top 10 could be good...

Might be that it would be hard to find any kind of consensus thou. The number of great fights is so high

It's hard to select only 10, there are dozens if not +100 fights!

To make it possible i think we should choose 3 best fights from every year first

Wlad AJ
Loma Linares
Pac Marquez (all of them- in order)
Pac De La Hoya
Lewis Tyson
Froch Groves 1