All time top 25 titlefights.

[The Old LefHook]

As selected by The Ring magazine in the Holiday 1996 Issue.


1 Muhammad Ali KO15 Joe Frazier, September 30, 1975
2 Rocky Graziano KO6 Tony Zale, July 16, 1947
3 Jack Dempsey KO2 Luis Firpo, September 14, 1923
4 Joe Frazier W15 Muhammad Ali, March 8, 1971
5 Tony Zale KO6 Rocky Graziano, September 27, 1946
6 Joe Louis KO13 Billy Conn, June 18, 1941
7 Marvin Hagler KO3 Thomas Hearns, April 15, 1985
8 Aaron Pryor KO14 Alexis Arguello, November 12, 1982
9 Sugar Ray Leonard KO14 Thomas Hearns, September 16, 1981
10 Joe Gans DQ42 Battling Nelson , September 3, 1906
11 Ad Wolgast KO13 Joe Rivers, July 4, 1912
12 Henry Armstrong W15 Lou Ambers, August 17, 1938
13 Julio Cesar Chavez KO12 Meldrick Taylor, March 17, 1990
14 Terry McGovern KO8 George Dixon, January 9, 1900
15 Arnold Taylor KO14 Romeo Anaya, November 3, 1973
16 Rocky Marciano KO13 Jersey Joe Walcott, September 23, 1952
17 Michael Carbajal KO7 Humberto Gonzalez, March 13, 1993
18 Tommy Ryan KO17 Tommy West, March 4, 1901
19 Ad Wolgast KO40 Battling Nelson, February 22, 1910
20 Chartchai Chionoi KO13 Efren Torres, January 28, 1968
21 Roberto Duran W15 Sugar Ray Leonard, June 20, 1980
22 Bobby Chacon W12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards, May 15, 1983
23 Larry Holmes W15 Ken Norton, June 9, 1978
24 Carmen Basilio W15 Sugar Ray Robinson, September 23, 1957
25 Jack Johnson KO12 Stanley Ketchel, October 16, 1909


Thoughts and which later fights do you think belongs on an updated list?

How amazing that no two of the greatest title fights occurred in the same year.

[The Old LefHook]

1 Corbett/Sullivan
2 Fitz/Corbett
3 Jefferies/Fitz

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Ok here is mine, based on drama and action and high stakes.. And my list will be swayed towards more modern eras, as I'm much more familiar..

In order kinda, give or take a few spots

1. Ali-frazier 1
2 louis-schmeling
3 leonard-hearns
4 castillo-corrales
5 Hagler-hearns
6 manny-marqiez 4
7 duran-leonard 1
8 chavez-taylor
9Ali-frazier 3
10 Marciano-Walcott
11 dempsey-Tunney
12 Graziono-zale
13 zale-graziano
14 bowe-Holyfield 1
15 Holmes-Norton
16 Pryor-arguello 1
17 Manny-marquez 1
18 Morales-barrera 1
19 carbajal-Gonzalez
20 Leonard-hagler
21 duran-Barkley
22 Louis-conn
23 Johnson-ketchel
24 Robinson-Lamotta
25Muhammed saad- can't remeber right now but it was RING FOTY in 80-81ish

[Anthony342]

Nice. How about Toney TKO 11 Nunn?

[BattlingNelson]

I would hope that at least one Matthew Saad Muhammad fight could make that list.

Yes. It seems odd and a blatant mistake that Saad couldn't even get one fight on the list. That bothered me as well.

[Tom Cruise]

Holyfield vs Tyson 1?

Edit: Second thoughts it wasnt really a war like the others on the list.

[BennyST]

Manny-marquez 1,4. Deserves to be mentioned

The single most awful thing about the Bradley/Pac robbery was that it made it so that Bradley had a fraud of a title that was completely undeserved in the ring, which then meant that Pac/Marquez 4 wasn't a titlefight.

Marquez should be a four division champion, a real one, not the fake one he currently is, though I suppose it makes up for it considering he did win the title off Pac...dodgy Bradley win.

[joseph5620]

Manny-marquez 1,4. Deserves to be mentioned

Those are good choices.

[Rossman]

I rank Ali-Frazier I over Ali Frazier III.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

The single most awful thing about the Bradley/Pac robbery was that it made it so that Bradley had a fraud of a title that was completely undeserved in the ring, which then meant that Pac/Marquez 4 wasn't a titlefight.

Marquez should be a four division champion, a real one, not the fake one he currently is, though I suppose it makes up for it considering he did win the title off Pac...dodgy Bradley win.

Damn, good call... Totally forgot that Bradley took manny's title..

Still, fight 4 was one of the greatest fights I ever saw, regardless of it being a non title fight..

2 p4p guys
Elite fighters
Rivals
And both guys wanted to end the other, and never rematch again
Total shootout, with the most dramatic ending of this era, on par with castillo-corrales and roy-tarver 2