He took Tommy Morrison's and Lewis's flush shots and kept coming. When I heard he took a knee vs Holyfield I didn't believe it.
Holyfield (IMO) is one of the most underrated punchers in recent history. That left hook of his was awesome
60's.
A good amount of solid lower weight fights but I think Muhammad Ali(Clay at the time) massively upsetting a close to Prime Sonny Liston have got to be the win of the decade.
70's
Most clear cut from this list. Frazier beating a past prime but still elite Ali in their first fight.
80's
A HUGE amount of big wins during this decade but i think Duran beating Leonard in Montreal will take the cake here.
90's
Douglas over Tyson. Pretty easy choice.
2000's
Tarver KO Roy Jones Jr 2nd fight.
2010-2017.
JMM KO Manny Pacquaio and I don't think any other win have even come close.
I think this probably right, I'd say Toney's W over Nunn is a solid contender for the 90's
2000s had a ton of great wins. I think Hopkins knocking out Trinidad is a greater victory than Milk dud over Jones.
Putting it into context, in hindsight we now know that after that first fight with Tarver, Jones' career was the beggining of his downhill ride.
In contrast, Trinidad was top 3 p4p on everyone's list. He was no doubt a bad mofo. Eventhough looking back Trinidad lost to jones and winky, he was never knocked out in that fasion.
Putting boxing aside, this fight was right after 9/11 too. Had to have been a great victory for the American after such a horrifying event.
I agree, that's a solid pick for 2000s
Golovkin
David Lemieux
Daniel Geale
Hopkins
Kovalev
Peter Quillin
Gabriel Rosado
Deontay Wilder
Matthysse
Lamont Peterson
Devon Alexander
Shawn Porter
Bryant Jennings
Mike Perez
Luis Ortiz
Joshua Clottey
Nicholas Walters
Maybe more . .
Dude, in today's soft society it's a miracle that football is even still allowed in school sports. No way Boxing becomes one. Though I could see some Democrat politician campaigning on the idea of how it helps lift "P.O.C." out of poverty and that inner city public schools should receive funding so that kids could compete. Surprised one of those hustlers haven't thought of that yet.
It was very bad until recently. Last three years or so have been a step in the right direction.
It's not that all of these suck it's more like up until recently a lot of these top guys weren't fighting each other or they would maybe have one decent match-up all the while padding their record in hopes of getting a shot at Vitali or Wlad
No James Toney blows my mind because the years have to be 1990 - 2015 since 2016 hasn't completed.
His win over Michael Nunn is arguably the greatest win from 1990 - 2015.
Toney IMO deserves to be in over a lot of these names.
You know your career is on the right path in boxing when this forum starts to attack you. He can take testing and pass it and for some he will still be accused of being on something :nonono:
Seeing as how I've stated multiple times in this thread it was not an attempt to attack him and I do look forward to his career.
It was using him as an example to discuss whether or not the sport should be open about what fighters are doing year round.
I'm not going to care and I can't see others especially if every one is aware and has the same opportunity to use PEDs.
Some of y'all need to stop accusing anyone with a great physique to be on roids. We all have different genetic makeups and Joshua has always had a chiseled physique.
I guess you're also 100% sure that Wlad and Haye are also on roids?
Holy ***** to the first part.
Absolutely to the second part.
you make no sense they are all on it and the fights are worse then they ever been
I think that has a large part to do with training/fighting ideology, referee incompetence and protective management.
Steroids are good for this sport.
Seriously. How many times have you watched a boring ass fight snd thought to yourself, I wish someone would give these scrubs some steroids so they would try and hurt each other?
PEDs are rampant in all sports, accept it and move on.
Absolutely.
Which is why I think they should be openly discussed and acknowledged.
The fans aren't going to walk away from the sport because of that.
Every weigh in shows Pacquiao more and more deteriorated. His muscles are less and less visible each time, an he looks smaller.
http://www.epa.eu/thumb.php/52691410.jpg?eJwljLEOwjAMRP_l5gxxnbaO105IFCSCBEyoaapuDEAnxL9jhenp3unugwEKOAxXKBluFaPJtukiBfJW7nfQxnAwvTzW-_aazKYqkx0Ew1iH6Qx9P7fF4fKvT1Dx3uFoEXNsc_R9z8JFukJZMhUOwsRxKjPj-wMsaiHg
I wonder why age catches up Pacquiao but not others......
I thought the same thing myself when first seeing these pictures.
I just hope he at least gives a performance of effort. I have a gut feeling he really doesn't care and will just be going through the motions.