Top 5 Fights: Year By Year

[Fox McCloud]

you guys are great.

Thank you for making this thread!

I am now downloading all the non-heavyweight fights I hadn't seen from threadstealer's list...

By the way... for sure, grab all the FOTYs you can. They are all money.

If you have seen Holyfield-Tyson I or Gatti-Ward III, you know how good the list is, because those are the two worst fights from the FOTY list post-1990.

[Burning Desire]

My son is a young boxing fan and I was interested in showing him some boxing fights. I figured we'd go year by year, starting from 1990 so and onward. As I was putting together the DVD's, it got me wondering, what exactly were the top 5 significant fights (action wise and name/hype wise) of each of the past 15 years. Im a fan but some of you on here are practically historians so I figured id bring my question here. Anyone?

These are all for excitement and some were hyped fights but not very good action wise.

1990:

Chris Eubank vs Nigel Benn 1
Meldrick Taylor vs Julio Cesar Chavez
Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas
Julian Jackson vs Herol Graham
Evander Holyfield vs Buster Douglas

1991:

Chris Eubank vs Michael Watson 2
Robert Quiroga vs Akeem Anifowoshe
Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman
Mike Tyson vs Razor Ruddock 1 and 2
Azumah Nelson vs Jeff Fenech 1

1992:

Rid**** Bowe vs Evander Holyfield 1
Bert Cooper vs Michael Moorer
George Foreman vs Alex Stewart
Lennox Lewis vs Razor Ruddock
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Hector Camacho

1993:

Michael Carbajal vs Humberto Gonzalez 1
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Pernell Whitaker
Rid**** Bowe vs Evander Holyfield 2
James Toney vs Iran Barkley
Terry Norris vs Troy Waters

1994:

Frankie Randall vs Julio Cesar Chavez 1
George Foreman vs Michael Moorer
John David Jackson vs Jorge Castro
Roy Jones Jr vs James Toney
James Toney vs Charles Williams


1995:

Rid**** Bowe vs Evander Holyfield 3
Humberto Gonzalez vs Saman Sorjaturong
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan
Vinny Pazienza vs Roy Jones Jr
Vincent Pettway vs Simon Brown

1996:

Rid**** Bowe vs Andrew Golota 1 and 2
Oscar De La Hoya vs Julio Cesar Chavez 1
Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield 1
Arturo Gatti vs Wilson Rodriguez
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Kennedy McKinney

1997:

Gabriel Ruelas vs Arturo Gatti
Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield 2
Ike Ibeabuchi vs David Tua
Naseem Hamed vs Kevin Kelley
Pernell Whitaker vs ODLH

1998:

Arturo Gatti vs Ivan Robinson 1 and 2
Ricardo Lopez vs Rosendo Alvarez 1 and 2
Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Genaro Hernandez


1999:

ODLH vs Felix Trinidad
Paulie Ayala vs Johnny Tapia 1
Lennox Lewis vs Evander Holyfield 1
ODLH vs Ike Quartey
Derrick Jefferson vs Maurice Harris


To be Continued.

[Thread Stealer]

Hey Thread Stealer, please complete the list from 03-07...

I am still a n00b with boxing, and I actually have been trying to figure out what fights were either good or historical from 1990 and above, so you have helped me out tremendously with it so far, but it would be nice to have some of the new biggest fights too, whether they be action or big matchups.

Always more to learn!

Not all the years are complete with a top 5.

My favorite fight in 2003 was James Toney-Vasilly Jirov.

Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko was a good fight. The rubber match between Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward was pretty good. I'm not sure about the other two.

2004:

Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales 3
Erik Morales-Jesus Chavez
Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez I

2005:

Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo I (and II was fun while it lasted)
Miguel Cotto-Ricardo Torres
Jorge Arce-Hussein Hussein I
Manny Pacquiao-Erik Morales I

2006:

Somsak Sithchatchawal-Mahyar Monshipour
Lamon Brewster-Sergei Liakhovich
Manny Pacquiao-Erik Morales 2
Monte Barrett-Owen Beck

2007:

Israel Vasquez-Rafael Marquez (both fights)
Kelly Pavlik-Jermaine Taylor I
Michael Katsidis-Czar Amonsot
Miguel Cotto-Zab Judah
Kelly Pavlik-Edison Miranda

[Thread Stealer]

Oh i forgot to add for 1996, the rematch between Frankie Liles and Tim Littles.

I think that was the undercard bout for Naseem Hamed-Daniel Alicea.

That was a wild short fight!

Oh, and for 1999, you must watch Derrick Jefferson-Maurice Harris.

[MissDeeCole]

now comes the real challenge...finding all these fights and downloading them!