Rank these trilogies/four fights series that you enjoyed the most from 1-5:
Gatti vs Ward
Pacquiao vs JMM
Vazquez vs Marquez
Holyfield vs Bowe
Morales vs Barrera
You can use any criteria you want. For me, I take into high level fighting, level of fighters and of course the drama.
1. Morales vs Barrera
2. Pacquiao vs JMM
3. Vazquez vs Marquez
4. Gatti vs Ward
5. Holyfield vs Bowe
In fairness nobody talks about Morales and Barrera either. Everyone knows it was an epic rivalry with lots of back and forth action.
Canelo and GGG are literally the same imo. And the controversy is funny. Adelaide Byrd scored it like 10-2 for Canelo - a joke. Had she scored it 7-5 for Canelo people wouldnt have blinked an eye.
Both fights were razor close and couldve had at least 2 valid outcomes.
If the 3rd is close again it has to go in that list, but if Canelo hammers GGG out why wouldnt it be like Manny JMM?
Great point about Adelaide’s scorecard
That would of saved us many headaches lol
Imo , Canelo beat him very convincingly in the second bout
I don’t see any reason for this third fight
Unfortunately , I think GGG is way passed his prime or maybe Father Time caught up to him
I’d be surprised if he keeps this fight close and if he does it’ll be him digging real deep , fighting literally out of emotions
Just don’t see it with lasting the times
The only reason this series gets any attention is cause of the controversy
Once Canelo beats him in their third instalment , no one will be talking about it besides a few sour grapes
In fairness nobody talks about Morales and Barrera either. Everyone knows it was an epic rivalry with lots of back and forth action.
Canelo and GGG are literally the same imo. And the controversy is funny. Adelaide Byrd scored it like 10-2 for Canelo - a joke. Had she scored it 7-5 for Canelo people wouldnt have blinked an eye.
Both fights were razor close and couldve had at least 2 valid outcomes.
If the 3rd is close again it has to go in that list, but if Canelo hammers GGG out why wouldnt it be like Manny JMM?
Really was. I was a huge Rafa fan and I was a little pissed that Vazquez had the upper hand of the trilogy, same with MAB over EM, but years later obviously you can't help but appreciate what you saw. Granted, Rafa evened up the score in the 4th fight, but that fight should have never happened....I will take it though lol.
Totally agree
Vazquez was my guy but I’ll tell you what , I quickly became a Marquez fan ( although like you said that 4th fight was not needed )
Anyway that was some great boxing , became hard to watch cause I really thought highly of both guys
Imo , Vazquez/Marquez had everything in it
Was the whole package
Really was. I was a huge Rafa fan and I was a little pissed that Vazquez had the upper hand of the trilogy, same with MAB over EM, but years later obviously you can't help but appreciate what you saw. Granted, Rafa evened up the score in the 4th fight, but that fight should have never happened....I will take it though lol.
Glad you're giving the proper love to Vazquez/Marquez.
Curious, Holy/Bowe over Morales/Barrera for any certain reason? Taking HW into account or you just enjoyed it more?
Imo , Vazquez/Marquez had everything in it
Was the whole package
1. Vasquez/Marquez
2. Pac/JMM
3. Holy/Bowe
4. Morales/Barrera
5. Gatti/Ward
I could easily see how this could go in any order
Glad you're giving the proper love to Vazquez/Marquez.
Curious, Holy/Bowe over Morales/Barrera for any certain reason? Taking HW into account or you just enjoyed it more?
Gatti vs Ward standard wise was a level or two below the others so the rivalry means less to me.
Understandable.
All great fight series of course and Bowe/Holyfield had HW implications and delivered. The first fight is arguably the best HW fight in the last 30 years.
It was difficult for me to chose which one would take my #1 spot.
But because of all the Bad Blood and the fight at the press conference I went with ...
1 Morales / Barrera
2 Marquez / Pacquiao
3 Vasquez / Marquez
4 Holyfield / Bowe
5 Gatti / Ward
Why funny lol
The two have fought 24 rounds and its 12-12..and they haven't been boring. These guys have been trying to hurt each other with Canelo having the very narrow edge
Just don’t see it with lasting the times
The only reason this series gets any attention is cause of the controversy
Once Canelo beats him in their third instalment , no one will be talking about it besides a few sour grapes
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Why funny lol
The two have fought 24 rounds and its 12-12..and they haven't been boring. These guys have been trying to hurt each other with Canelo having the very narrow edge
Can dig this list, though a bit unfair to have Gatti/Ward LEVELS below the other rivalries. But yeah, the order looks good.
Gatti vs Ward standard wise was a level or two below the others so the rivalry means less to me.
Those Manny and Marquez fights have so much replay value, I don’t think there’s a boxing rivalry that can top it. Nonstop action all 42 rds.
Neither of them backed down. Neither one fought with mentality of winning on points.
They gave it their ABSOLUTE ALL.
Every time. Hats off to those gentleman.
Incredible series.
They could do 10 fights with each other even now and they’d still sell 1M PPV buys each time, lmao.
The truth! Perfect styles and mentality for a great match up.