Top 10 greatest fights of all time

[The Old LefHook]

Mike Ayala/Little Red Lopez may have been the best action packed fight I have ever witnessed.

[The plunger man]

Of all hundreds of fights I’ve watched ”live” (i.e. mostly not on place, but at telly), the most memorable one is Julio Cesar Chavez against Meldrick Taylor. Because of the outcome.

If Richard Steele had given Taylor those two extra seconds, had that fight stuck into my mind as it now does? … No, it hadn’t.

At times, circumstances make a fight outstanding …

PS. Just a month before, we’ve seen Douglas KO Tyson, so we thought it was the highlight of the decade. Nothing could match that … could it? …

I was shocked when I watched that fight and the flack that Richard Steele after he stopped it was full on....at the time i thought Richard Steele was in don kings pocket...he probably looked for any sign he could stop and Taylor was incoherent ....so that was his sign....great fight and Taylor hit chavez with everything round after round...I was also blown away when marquez koed pacquaio....high drama and a great fight

[Ben Bolt]

Opinions of that stoppage did differ … But I don’t mind what Steele did. One main thing of a ref’s duty is to call a halt for a hurt boxer … And as we learned a few days after the battle, Taylor had been more than hurt …

[Scott9945]

Opinions of that stoppage did differ … But I don’t mind what Steele did. One main thing of a ref’s duty is to call a halt for a hurt boxer … And as we learned a few days after the battle, Taylor had been more than hurt …

Taylor was as hurt as he was going to be at that point in the fight. The match was essentially over. There is often a lot of drama being added about Meldrick's career, but he was back in the ring less than 5 months later, and he did move up and win a welterweight title as well.

[Ben Bolt]

Taylor was as hurt as he was going to be at that point in the fight. The match was essentially over. There is often a lot of drama being added about Meldrick's career, but he was back in the ring less than 5 months later, and he did move up and win a welterweight title as well.

Yes, he did have a career after the Chavez fight, but if the medical science had had its say at the time, it most likely had considered him as damaged goods.
And recommended a man beaten up like that to choose another way in life in hope of a healthy future.
But in boxing, we bystanders are prepared to sacrifice one or another.

[Scott9945]

Yes, he did have a career after the Chavez fight, but if the medical science had had its say at the time, it most likely had considered him as damaged goods.
And recommended a man beaten up like that to choose another way in life in hope of a healthy future.
But in boxing, we bystanders are prepared to sacrifice one or another.

Considering how things turned out for him, it likely would have been better if Taylor had retired. But this exaggerated fable of how JCC turned him into a vegetable is false. Taylor suffered several more brutal knockdowns in his career, and the cumulative effect from all of them led to his unfortunate current condition.

[joseph5620]

Considering how things turned out for him, it likely would have been better if Taylor had retired. But this exaggerated fable of how JCC turned him into a vegetable is false. Taylor suffered several more brutal knockdowns in his career, and the cumulative effect from all of them led to his unfortunate current condition.

I'm glad you pointed that out. I've been arguing with people for years about that.

[LouIE G]

Not having the first Corrales-Castillo fight on that list is tragic.

Or Morales vs Barrera 1 .....smh

[The plunger man]

Or Morales vs Barrera 1 .....smh

Barrera morales 1 is on my list

[The plunger man]

I'm glad you pointed that out. I've been arguing with people for years about that.

Taylor was never the same after that first fight and I just think Chavez took his boxing soul......I know they rematched after but it was clear to see he wasn't the same .....and the meetings he had later with even bigger champions like terry Norris should never have taken place....but your right he wasn't finished as a fighter after the Chavez fights but a lot of the starch was taken out him and he was probably 75 percent of the fighter of what he was before he faced Chavez ....I think it was a freak night where any other time the bell would have rung and he would be champion...it wasn't meant to be and some fighters are just unlucky .great fight though