The Hatton v Tszyu fight is one that immediately springs to mind - I can't remember seeing a fight with an atmosphere that intense. The fight itself wasn't fantastic due to Hatton's incessant holding and hugging but the highly vocal crowd made it more entertaining than it actually was.
The most intense atmosphere I've been in was the Frazier vs Ali 1. That was a heavy duty feeling waiting for them to hit the ring! It was a very very serious atmosphere very different from other Ali fights! The fight was equally serious.
Theres a copy of the fight somewhere that has NO commentary but it does have an open mic about 15 feet above the ring (I think) or an opened mic somewheres. All you hear is Ali an Joe landing, grunting, breathing you can even hear the sound of the canvas as Ali slides his feet at times!!
It is the "best" way to watch that bout!! I assure that you'll come away thinking a little bt different about boxing especially if you've never been to a live event. Ray.
i dont know about crowd atmosphere ive only been to 2 live fights ward-dawson and kirkland-julio..but the most intense fight party ive ever been to was pac-mar IV
fights ive been to in order
pacquiao hatton ANYTHING HATTON IS JUST A STEP ABOVE ANY OTHER ATMOSPHERE
2 taylor pavlik 1 ... was just insane the legitimate mw championship
3 pacquiao marquez mexicans are almost as fun as the britts ..almost
4 cotto margarito 2
pavlik hopkins
some others
berto ortiz
mallinaggi kahn
wolak rodriguez 1
There are a ton, but here are some that come to mind:
Cotto/Zab
Trinidad/Mayorga
Nationalistic:
Floyd/Hatton
Cotto/Margarito I
Pac/Morales I
Maybe not the loudest, but very volatile crowds before and after:
Bowe/Golota
Rahman/Maskaev
Oscar/Vargas
Tapia/Romero
Margartio/Mosley
Honorable mention: the weigh-in for Mayweather/Hatton, best EVER!
the beautiful thing about boxing is that in the best of fights, the crowd and fight builds slowly to a crescendo and the back and forth puts it over the edge ... the 12th round of Chavez Jr/Martinez is up there as well
Man I can't tell you for sure but Europeans go nuts over there. These guys are filling out ARENAS! Every time I watch a fight the noise is nuts.
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Katie Taylor vs Sofia in the gold medal final was mental. They said the crowd noise was louder than anything in the whole Olympics. Ireland literally came to a stand still. As a hardcore boxing fan myself it was wonderful to behold. There has never been a day before were pretty much everyone you walked past or spoke to were just talking about boxing and nothing else. Hell I'd say there's never been a day like that where one person received so much attention.
50,000 people gathered in Taylor's home town just to watch the fight. Our twisted government cancelled the home coming celebration because they were afraid there would be so many people going down it would shut down Dublin.
Not to knowledgeable as far as over the history of boxing, but in recent memory Mayweather-Hatton. The Brits booing the American anthem made that ko so much more sweeter.