What's the best performance of your favorite fighter ?

[porlie]

Hagler vs Hearns

Dempsey vs Willard

Tyson vs Spinks

Benn vs Barkley

Marciano vs Walcott

Hatton vs Castillo

[veilside23]

tszyu vs judah

[DiegoFuego]

Hopkins over Trinidad
Lewis over Rahman
Ali over Williams

those are great calls

others I'd say that are obviously fighters' best would be

Calzaghe over Lacy (his only good win lol)
Mayweather over Corrales
Hatton over Castillo
De La Hoya over Vargas
Mosley over De La Hoya I
Forrest over Mosley I
Tszyu over Judah
Wright over Trinidad
Toney over Prince Charles Williams (although Toney had tons of good ones)
RJJ over Toney

[Left2body]

Corrales-Castillo I
Corrales-Casa I&II
Corrales-Freitas
Duran-SRL I
Duran-Barkley
Gatti-Ruelas
Cotto-Judah
Toney-Nunn
Tito-Vargas
Pernell-Chavez
Pernell-McGuirt
Arce-Hussein
Evander-Bowe series

Damn I have too many favorites, I still have a bunch I didn't mention

[realheavyhands]

Got to be Benn destroying Gerald McClelland, apart from the tragic end the fight was brilliant.

do you realize that makes no damn sense at all.. mclellan was cleary and easily winning the fight .. it was a freak accident

[realheavyhands]

jones hopkins
jones toney
jones ruiz
toney peter 1
toney holyfield
toney jirov
hopkins tarver
hopkins taylor 1
winky trinidad

[ИATAS]

Hopkins over Trinidad.

I know Trinidad didn't really belong at 160 (although he did beat Joppy who was a legitimate middle), but this is still my favorite Hopkins win. Everyone said Hopkins would have to take the fight inside if he wanted to beat Tito, but Bernard won the fight on the outside, simply outboxing Trinidad. He arguably won every round of the fight. It wouldn't matter though, becuase Hopkins made sure the judges wouldn't be involved in the outcome. He dropped Tito to the canvas with a wicked right hand in the final round to seal the deal.

Oh yeah, I can still picture Hopkins walking to the ring to Ray Charles' 'America the Beautiful'. This fight took place in NYC only a few weeks after 9/11.

My thoughts exactly. Complete domination by Hopkins. Beautiful match - about as perfect as it could have been. Great boxing, great defense, great hand speed, great power. Definitely his best performance of his career by far, and probably the most exciting to watch (kind of hard to imagine that b-hop threw over 650 punches in a fight!).

[FIGHTING_FLIP]

mayweather vs gatti
mayweather vs mitchell
cotto vs malignnagi
shane mosley vs oscar de la hoya 1
pacquiao vs morales 3

[Panamaniac]

Great idea for a thread!

1. Ali's destruction of Cleveland Williams
2. Ali's "rope-a-doping" of George Foreman
3. Duran's methodical and systematic demolition of Esteban De Jesus in the 2nd. and 3rd. bouts of their trilogy.
4. Duran's destruction of Pipino Cuevas and Davey Moore
5. Tyson's spectacular and total annihilation of a much-taller Trevor Berbick.
6. Tyson's KO of Michael Spinks, which made me a fan
7. De La Hoya's surprising (to me) disposal of Ricardo Mayorga
8. Holmes' shattering of "The Great White Hope" Gerry Cooney
9. Louis' 1st-round annihilation of Max Schmeling
10. Patterson's avenging KO of Ingemar Johansson (1st. heavyweight to regain title)

[-Antonio-]

Toney/Barkley - One of the most amazing displays of in fighting that you will ever see.

Cotto/Judah - He's looked more impressive before, but with weaker competition.