The year 2000

[SCtrojansbaby]

Can't think of another year in the past 40 years that had as many great/significant fights

Vargas vs Trinidad
Morales vs Barrera 1
Mosley vs De La Hoya
Hamed vs Sanchez
Hopkins vs Echols 2
Tua vs Lewis
Grant vs Lewis
Gatti vs Gamache
Ward vs Neary
Corrales vs Gainer
Castillo vs Johnston
Tapia vs Ayala 2
Trinidad vs Reid
Tyson vs Golota
Vargas vs Quartey

[jabsRstiff]

Can't think of another year in the past 40 years that had as many great/significant fights

Vargas vs Trinidad
Morales vs Barrera 1
Mosley vs De La Hoya
Hamed vs Sanchez
Hopkins vs Echols 2
Tua vs Lewis
Grant vs Lewis
Gatti vs Gamache
Ward vs Neary
Corrales vs Gainer
Castillo vs Johnston
Tapia vs Ayala 2
Trinidad vs Reid
Tyson vs Golota
Vargas vs Quartey

It was a great year, but 1982 was much better-

Holmes-Cooney (ummm, Gerry Cooney was on the cover of TIME Magazine)

Pryor-Arguello

Gomez-Pintor

Chacon-Limon IV

Sanchez-Nelson

Benitez-Duran

Hearns-Benitez

Mancini-Kim

Limon-Navarette

NFL Football went on strike for 3-4 weeks and CBS and NBC used boxing to fill the void.

Hagler, Hearns, Pryor, Arguello, Holmes, Spinks, Braxton, Leonard, Sanchez, Gomez, Leonard, Chandler were all active in that year.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Meh Arguello vs Pryor is the only ATG fight on that list 2000 has IMO 3 of the top 20 fights of the last 40 years(Morales Barrera Vargas Trinidad and Ward Neary)

Oh and there were just as many HOFs active in 2000 Jones, Hopkins, Lewis, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Barrera, Morales, Lopez, Wlad, Mosley, Trinidad, De La Hoya, Winky, Tapia, Toney

[jabsRstiff]

Meh Arguello vs Pryor is the only ATG fight on that list 2000 has IMO 3 of the top 20 fights of the last 40 years(Morales Barrera Vargas Trinidad and Ward Neary)

Oh and there were just as many HOFs active in 2000 Jones, Hopkins, Lewis, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Barrera, Morales, Lopez, Wlad, Mosley, Trinidad, De La Hoya, Winky, Tapia, Toney

Yeah, Ward-Neary is as revered and remembered throughout boxing history as Gomez-Pintor and Chacon-Limon IV. Are you actually serious with that?

Don't get me wrong, 2000 was a great year to be a fight fan, but 1982 had the fights, the fighters, and the HAPPENINGS that 2000 could never match.

Here's the difference- I followed boxing in both '82 and 2000, while you just MAY HAVE actually been following it in 2000. So, that makes me speak from a better base than you, especially when you combine that with my superior ability to decipher what i'm watching, and superior logic and common sense!

[SCtrojansbaby]

Yeah, Ward-Neary is as revered and remembered throughout boxing history as Gomez-Pintor and Chacon-Limon IV. Are you actually serious with that?

Forget the hype and fighters watch the fights and judge the action, Neary vs Ward is simply better in my opinion

[New England]

Yeah, Ward-Neary is as revered and remembered throughout boxing history as Gomez-Pintor and Chacon-Limon IV. Are you actually serious with that?

Don't get me wrong, 2000 was a great year to be a fight fan, but 1982 had the fights, the fighters, and the HAPPENINGS that 2000 could never match.

Here's the difference- I followed boxing in both '82 and 2000, while you just MAY HAVE actually been following it in 2000. So, that makes me speak from a better base than you, especially when you combine that with my superior ability to decipher what i'm watching, and superior logic and common sense!

and the hawk in your avatar backing you up

dude had a chest like a HW

a robe cannot contain it

[jabsRstiff]

Forget the hype and fighters watch the fights and judge the action, Neary vs Ward is simply better in my opinion

Let's just say Ward-neary even approached those fights in terms of pure action....it did not carry their (especially Gomez-Pintor) signficance.

In 1990, at the Blue Horizon, I saw a war between two ordinary guys that I would say had way more action than Ward-Neary, but you won't see me saying it was "better" than Ward-Neary.