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Before the new upcoming trilogy; Fury vs. Wilder III, what is your current favorite trilogy from the history?

Gatti vs Ward

Bowe-Holyfield easily. All three bouts were intense, action packed and competetive. Two elite level heavies going toe-to-toe. The second fight was impressive to a lesser extent, but still good. The second bouts are often the less interesting in the trilogies.

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran is the worst in the list, could even be replaced by the other Duran trilogy, vs De Hesus. Or Gatti-Ward. The Leonard-Duran trilogy had a single great fight.

My favorite is one i didn't see: Kid Gavilan versus Ike Williams. However, I've read a whole lot about those bouts.

Patterson - Johansson

Chacon/Olivares

EDIT: How is Leonard/Duran there? The third fight was a joke and the second fight Duran quit.

A lot of good choices. I went with Ali-Frazier. The first fight was great, The second get dismissed as by some as too much holding but it was a lot more than that. It was more of a tactical battle than the other two. The third was unbelievable.

Bowe-Holyfield was great also. The third fight was weird in that Holyfield was off yet almost won with a punch from nowhere. Bowe was was a little ragged in that one. The first two were at a very high level with a lot of action.

Benvenuti-Griffith always gets overlooked.

oogiebe wrote: ↑01 Jul 2020, 16:34 Chacon/Olivares

EDIT: How is Leonard/Duran there? The third fight was a joke and the second fight Duran quit.

That's what makes the second fight great, Leonard emasculated him.

3rd fight yeah, purely a money fight.

Bowe vs Holyfield is my favourite.

Other: Daniel Zaragoza-Paul Banke
Vinny Pazienza-Greg Haugen
Archie Moore-Joey Maxim (never saw all three, but always curious)

I'm glad Griffith-Paret received no votes. It's fair game to put on the list, but I cannot fathom how anyone could consider it a favorite.

bwu wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 21:15 Other: Daniel Zaragoza-Paul Banke
Vinny Pazienza-Greg Haugen
Archie Moore-Joey Maxim (never saw all three, but always curious)

I'm glad Griffith-Paret received no votes. It's fair game to put on the list, but I cannot fathom how anyone could consider it a favorite.

Yeah, too haunting to watch that.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑01 Jul 2020, 22:37 A lot of good choices. I went with Ali-Frazier. The first fight was great, The second get dismissed as by some as too much holding but it was a lot more than that. It was more of a tactical battle than the other two. The third was unbelievable.

Bowe-Holyfield was great also. The third fight was weird in that Holyfield was off yet almost won with a punch from nowhere. Bowe was was a little ragged in that one. The first two were at a very high level with a lot of action.

Benvenuti-Griffith always gets overlooked.

I think it would be interesting to see how many seconds Ali actually spent clinching. The way I see it, you can only count the seconds AFTER the 60th second before it really starts to count. Otherwise it was just a fair trade. Free time for clinch time.

Holy/bowe was the best. Ali/Frazier 2 wasn't great that would make it 2nd. Marquez/Vazquez, Marquez/PAC & Morales/mab round out the top 5.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑03 Jul 2020, 19:08 Marquez/PAC

That was a tetralogy though.

I thought Marquez Vazquez was four fights too?

I always liked Floyd and Ingo. There’s something brutally final about all 3 bouts and each rematch necessary.

They were fun to watch. As for quality, Patterson looked bad in the first one; Johannson not so great in the second. The third was best to watch of the three.

Loved all three Ali-Frazier bouts. And as a Canadian, I have a soft spot for the Chuvalo-Cleroux trilogy, when both men were ranked in the Top 10.

Good mention. Cleroux is a guy that gets overlooked; you almost never see anything about him.

I enjoyed Holy-Bowe the most, they were very well-matched and also completely contrasting guys.....

….. but would also say that for pure mayhem the Andries-Harding LHW WBC fights remain excellent. Those two battered the hell out of each other and their comparative lack of silky skills and aggressive instincts made those fights.

And as others have said....the Fury-Wilder "trilogy-in-the-making" could be a cracking series.
I am not entirely certain Wilder is a busted flush and Tyson is still a guy who could go AWOL.

Roberto Duran vs Esteban De Jesus....my favorite trilogy of all-time.

Ruben Olivares vs Chucho Castillo was one of the all time best trilogies.

How about Gatti-Ward??

But....Ali-Frazier is my favorite.

Marquez vs Vazquez is one of the only series of fights that got better and better as it went. Would've stayed that way if not for the one sided 4th bout.

But in a way I even appreciate seeing that 4th bout because how easily Vazquez cut and was stopped due to the bleeding is due in larger part to the damage he'd received in the previous bouts in this series.

I mean obviously he'd been cut several times other than when he fought Marquez, but the 4th fight was just kinda a showing of all the wear and tear the previous bouts had had on him to me. So it somehow still seems appropriate to see.

The price that is to be paid for fights like those if you will.

I would throw the Graziano-Zale trilogy in there. I can only imagine what it would have been like to watch that unfold as it happened.

I would probably lean toward Marquez-Vazquez..pretty edge of your seat stuff.

Carbajal vs Gonzalez for me. I didn’t think Carbajal would win the first, then I didn’t think he‘d lose the rematch. They were two top fighters.