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Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 16:10
by Heretic
What are in your opinion some of the modern classics of boxing?

Fights that every fan must see?

Fights that define modern boxing?

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 16:12
by Heretic
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.

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 16:16
by gilgamesh
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.

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 16:16
by gilgamesh
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.

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 16:29
by dagilechia
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 19:10
by Boxing Prospect
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 19:47
by tiny_acres
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 21:04
by Perseus
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 21:24
by ezhmael
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 21:55
by Best Coast
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)

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 18 Sep 2018, 23:45
by Ricky
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 03:03
by Mexi-Box
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.

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 03:41
by Kilsby
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 05:36
by Heretic
Damn... Looks like I have shit loads of homework to do :lol:

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 05:45
by Counter-puncher
Hernan Marquez - Giovani Segura (insane fight)
Roman Gonzalez - Srisaket
Gonzalez - Yaegashi

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 07:21
by dagilechia
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...

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 10:21
by Ricky
Matthysse vs John Molina was a war.

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

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

Maybe a top 20 of the 2000s onwards? :maybe:

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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 12:18
by Kilsby
I'll start with the top 3....

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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 02:37
by Heretic
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 :twisted:

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 02:41
by Heretic
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? :maybe:

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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 03:20
by dagilechia
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

Re: Must see fights after 2000 for boxing fans.

Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 06:48
by KiwiRider
Wlad AJ
Loma Linares
Pac Marquez (all of them- in order)
Pac De La Hoya
Lewis Tyson
Froch Groves 1