20 best brawls of the 21st century

Pastrano · 01:21 PM

1. Morales vs Barrera I
2. Corrales vs Castillo I
3. Gatti vs Ward I
4. Trinidad vs Vargas
5. Vazquez vs Marquez III
6. Cotto vs Torres
7. Dawson vs Johnson I
8. Barrera vs Morales III
9. J. M. Marquez vs Diaz I
10. Casamayor vs Katsidis
11. Barrera vs Juarez I
12. Trinidad vs Mayorga
13. Margarito vs Cintron II
14. Moore vs Macklin
15. Kessler vs Froch
16. Julio vs Bundrage
17. Abraham vs Miranda I
18. Jefferson vs Harris
19. Jones vs Tarver I
20. Lewis vs V. Klitschko

SCtrojansbaby

Your list is missing a ton of great brawls. My top 10 would be

Top 4

1.Corrales vs Castillo 1
2.Toney vs Jirov
3.Gatti vs Ward 1
4.Ward vs Neary

the rest in no order

Barrera Morales 1
Wolak vs Rodriguez
Williams vs Martinez 1
Holt vs Torres 2
Corrales vs Castillo 2
Segura vs Calderon 1
Marquez vs Vasquez 1
Marquez vs Vasquez 2
Marquez vs Vasquez 3
Pacquiao vs Morales 1
Pacquiao vs Marquez 1
Pavlik vs Taylor 1
Mayorga vs Trinidad
Vargas vs Trinidad
Ortiz vs Maidana
Hamed vs Sanchez

New England · 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SCtrojansbaby

Your list is missing a ton of great brawls. My top 10 would be

Top 4

1.Corrales vs Castillo 1
2.Toney vs Jirov
3.Gatti vs Ward 1
4.Ward vs Neary

the rest in no order

Barrera Morales 1
Wolak vs Rodriguez
Williams vs Martinez 1
Holt vs Torres 2
Corrales vs Castillo 2
Segura vs Calderon 1
Marquez vs Vasquez 1
Marquez vs Vasquez 2
Marquez vs Vasquez 3
Pacquiao vs Morales 1
Pacquiao vs Marquez 1
Pavlik vs Miranda
Mayorga vs Trinidad
Vargas vs Trinidad
Ortiz vs Maidana
Hamed vs Sanchez

fixed.

nice to see micky ward getting some love
he was one of the most exciting fighters ever.

he's paying for it now
he can hardly see.

Pastrano · 01:23 PM

I had to sacrifice some of Vazquez-Marquez trilogy in order to get in more great fights. I only chose the absolute best part. I forgot Moore-Macklin fight, so the Angulo-Julio fight had to go.

SCtrojansbaby

Fights like Jones vs Tarver, Vitali vs Lennox, and Dawson vs Johnson don't belong anywhere near the top 20.

How do you not have Wolak vs Rodriguez, Ward vs Neary or Toney vs Jirov in the top 20?

Pastrano

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Originally Posted by SCtrojansbaby

Fights like Jones vs Tarver, Vitali vs Lennox, and Dawson vs Johnson don't belong anywhere near the top 20.

How do you not have Wolak vs Rodriguez, Ward vs Neary or Toney vs Jirov in the top 20?

To be frank, I 'avent seen Wolak-Rodriguez yet and the other two...well they were good but just not classics imo. They were semi-classics.

chav

Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClelan

That has to be on my top 20 list, just a shame McClellan ended up all but brain dead after the final bell. it was bombs ahoy for 12 rounds

edit: Add Marquez vs Vasquez to the list too. Loved those wars

Pastrano

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Originally Posted by chav

Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClelan

That has to be on my top 20 list, just a shame McClellan ended up all but brain dead after the final bell. it was bombs ahoy for 12 rounds

edit: Add Marquez vs Vasquez to the list too. Loved those wars

Um, hello?! That was in 1995, this is for the 21st century!

chav

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Originally Posted by Pastrano

Um, hello?! That was in 1995, this is for the 21st century!

Maths was never my strong point

Pastrano

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Originally Posted by chav

Maths was never my strong point

Unfortunately, none of the great smw's of the 90's saw any action in the 21st century.

Pastrano Undisputed Champion Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 2,164 Rep Power: 7 Points: 8,766,747.75 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,766,747.75 Donate	I had to sacrifice some of Vazquez-Marquez trilogy in order to get in more great fights. I only chose the absolute best part. I forgot Moore-Macklin fight, so the Angulo-Julio fight had to go. Last edited by Pastrano; 10-11-2011 at 01:23 PM.

SCtrojansbaby Undisputed Champion Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,501 Blog Entries: 2 Rep Power: 15 Points: 30,236,301.31 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 30,236,301.31 Donate	Fights like Jones vs Tarver, Vitali vs Lennox, and Dawson vs Johnson don't belong anywhere near the top 20. How do you not have Wolak vs Rodriguez, Ward vs Neary or Toney vs Jirov in the top 20?

chav Undisputed Champion Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 3,925 Rep Power: 24 Points: 80,549,324,683.11 Bank: 6,930,521,721,009.17 Total Points: 7,011,071,045,692.28 Donate	Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClelan That has to be on my top 20 list, just a shame McClellan ended up all but brain dead after the final bell. it was bombs ahoy for 12 rounds edit: Add Marquez vs Vasquez to the list too. Loved those wars