Top 3 greatest wins from 40s to 00s

[BKM-2010]

So in these 7 decades(or you can go back even further if you feel like it) list the 3 greatest wins of each decade. You can have your own criteria but I'm sure we all agree on quality of opponent they beat, the manner in which they won and what the win meant.

To make it easy for you, just copy and paste this into your post and add your choices

00s
1-
2-
3-

90s
1-
2-
3-

80s
1-
2-
3-

70s
1-
2-
3-

60s
1-
2-
3-

50s
1-
2-
3-

40s
1-
2-
3-

[Sugar Adam Ali]

00s- tarver over jones, Hopkins over Tito, Floyd over hatton

90s- buster over Tyson, foreman over moorer, Holyfield over Tyson

80s- Srl over hagler, Duran over srl, srl over hearns

70s- Frazier over Ali, Ali over foreman, foreman over Frazier

Still thinking about the other decades...

[rightsideup]

80s
1-Duran leonard 1
2-leonard hearns 1
3-Duran Barkly

70s
1-Ali Foreman
2-Frazier Ali 1
3-Duran Dejeus 3

60s
1-Ali Liston 1
2-Paterson Chavalo
3-Liston Patterson

50s
1-Robinson Lamotta middle champ fight
2-Basilio Robinson
3-Robinson Basilio

40s
1-Graziano Zale
2-Zale Graziano
3-Louis Conn 1 hopefully this was in the forties

[Bundana]

00s
1- Jones over Ruiz
2- Hopkins over Tito
3- Calzaghe over Kessler

90s
1- Douglas over Tyson
2- Holyfield over Tyson I
3- Foreman over Moorer

80s
1- SRL over Hearns
2- Duran over SRL
3- SRL over Hagler

70s
1- Frazier over Ali
2- Ali over Foreman
3- Foreman over Frazier

60s
1- Ali over Liston I
2- Liston over Patterson I
3- Foster over Tiger

50s
1- Turpin over SRR
2- Marciano over Walcott I
3- SRR over LaMotta

40s
1- Pep over Saddler
2- Graziano over Zale
3- Zale over Graziano I

[soul_survivor]

00s
1- Bhop's wins over Tito for the undisputed middleweight crown
2- Pacquiao's demolition of Barrera, completely unexpected
3- Tarver stopping Jones in 2, we knew RJJ was on the way down but this was incredible

90s
1- Holyfield stopping Tyson in their first meeting, Holy was meant to be shot
2- Foreman over Moorer, one of the most historic moments in boxing
3- Oscar over Whitaker, then one of very best fighters p4p and the top at 147

80s
1- SRL stopping Hearns late in a fight of the century type deal
2- Duran coming up from LW and beating SRL
3- SRL beating THE MW CHAMPION

70s
1- Frazier giving Ali hell and beating him
2- Ali gaining his championship back against Foreman by KO
3- Spinks beating Ali and becoming the fastest man to win HW champ gold

60s
1- Ali making a fool of Listion I
2- Patterson KOing Johansson, first man to regain the HW crown
3- Fullmer beating Robinson, in what would be SRRs final shot at the world middleweight crown. A most historic win.

50s
1- Robinson destroying LaMotta in the ST Valentine's day massacre
2- Marciano stopping Walcott for the HW crown
3- Charles beating Louis for the HW crown

40s
1- LaMotta becoming the first man to beat SRR, battering him in the process
2- Louis barely getting past Conn, his first true challenger in years
3- Robinson finally winning the welterweight crown after years of avoidance.

[Bundana]

00s
60s
1- Ali making a fool of Listion I
2- Patterson KOing Johansson, first man to regain the HW crown
3- Fullmer beating Robinson, in what would be SRRs final shot at the world middleweight crown. A most historic win.

How could I forget Patterson becoming the first man to regain the heavyweight crown? Definitely one of the top 3 wins of the decade!

[soul_survivor]

How could I forget Patterson becoming the first man to regain the heavyweight crown? Definitely one of the top 3 wins of the decade!

often gets overlooked, patterson was incredible in the rematch and had a decent enough reign as champion.

[rightsideup]

often gets overlooked, patterson was incredible in the rematch and had a decent enough reign as champion.

he nearly decapitated Johannson

[Holywarrior]

Too many good wins from the 30s - 60s to even try and make an accurate list.

[cleming]

For the 90's Randall over Chavez was something BIG.