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Some fights while short, were nevertheless great fights.

I immediately think of the following:
Dempsey-Firpo
Foreman-Lyle
Hagler-Hearns

There was a lot more action in those fights than most fights of 10 rounds or more. The losers in these fights were competitive and made it very interesting.
Another fight that was great while it lasted was Mancini-Chacon. Chacon was past his best but still provided some good action against Mancini. It was fun to watch.

What was the best fights of 5 rounds or less?
There has to be many other short fights that are also atleast worth mentioning.

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These immediately come to mind:

One Million B.C.: Raquel Welch against Martine Beswick in those infamous fur bikinis! (A classic!)

The Mummy Returns: Rachel Weisz against Patricia Velasquez duke it out for Pharoah's amusement.

Total Recall: Sharon Stone in a great fight with Rachael Ticotin.

Batman & Robin: Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in a short fight.

Oh wait! You're talking about boxing. Hmmm . . . That will take some thought . . .

hearns - hagler was great

hamed - kelly
hamed - sanchez
tszyu - hurtado
some of the contender fights were a good watch also

can we add Cassamayor vs Katsidis as a new entry to this catagory?

Juan Meza vs Jaime Garza
Marcos Villasana vs Jaime Garza
Ray Mancini vs Arturo Frias
Michael Bentt vs Tommy Morrison

My personal favorite is Johansson against Patterson I - after all, I'm Swedish.

All kidding aside, from the old timers catagory, accounts I have read indicate that the first Terry McGovern-Young Corbett fight on November 28, 1901 was a real barnburner while it lasted.

Definitely Katsidis-Earl. Good shout, P4P1, mentioning Hamed-Kelley & (the oft-forgotten) Tszyu-Hurtado.

Benn-Barkley

Sechew Powell vs Cornelius Bundrage was pretty sweet, w/a double knockdown.
Mancini vs Frias was another one when you see the highlights it seems like a 12 round brawl, when it actually was a 1 round fight.
Kirkland vs Conyers, Kirkland down very early, he then smelled blood and destroyed Conyers

Ellis vs Shavers

Moorer Vs Cooper

generic screen name wrote:Sechew Powell vs Cornelius Bundrage was pretty sweet, w/a double knockdown.
Mancini vs Frias was another one when you see the highlights it seems like a 12 round brawl, when it actually was a 1 round fight.
Kirkland vs Conyers, Kirkland down very early, he then smelled blood and destroyed Conyers

Is there a better 1 round fight than this? A real war!

Collins2000 wrote:

generic screen name wrote:Sechew Powell vs Cornelius Bundrage was pretty sweet, w/a double knockdown.
Mancini vs Frias was another one when you see the highlights it seems like a 12 round brawl, when it actually was a 1 round fight.
Kirkland vs Conyers, Kirkland down very early, he then smelled blood and destroyed Conyers

Is there a better 1 round fight than this? A real war!

That fight was great .
Mancini came out firing and Arturo stood his ground.

Jaime Garza -Juan Kid Meza was another one.
Kid just got there first.

Quarry-Shavers....after all the brusing battles Quarry had, it seemed he might have been a bit washed up...but then he knocks out possibly the most lethal heavyweight puncher of all time in the first round, who was near his peak! For being a one round fight, it was damn good.

Liston - Williams I
Watt - Nash
Hearns - Roldan
Frazier - Ramos
Louis - Galento

Louis-Roper

Liston-Williams II

Liston-Mike DeJohn

Liston-Folley