When was the last mega fight that lived up to the hype?

[Pez]

It's kinda hard to define a mega fight. I just feel it. But yes, I'll stick with what I said above. Margarito-Cotto was a mega fight and that was the last one that lived up to the hype.

[F l i c k e r]

It's kinda hard to define a mega fight. I just feel it. But yes, I'll stick with what I said above. Margarito-Cotto was a mega fight and that was the last one that lived up to the hype.

that wasn't a megafight.

[SCtrojansbaby]

that wasn't a megafight.

LOL so you would call Mike Tyson vs Peter McNelly a megafight just because it is one of the highest selling fights?

[Weebler I]

Margarito-Cotto but we all know that fight was a fraud now.

[TintaBoricua]

I thought of mentioning Cotto-Margarito but it wasn't a MEGAFIGHT.

If you want to say that it was a megafight among BOXING FANS (HARDCORE BOXING FANS), yes.

But if you want to include megafights (literally MEGAFIGHTS) where EVERYBODY (even casual fans) are talking about it, you'd only be able to mention a few:

Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather
Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye
Floyd Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton (maybe?)
Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I
Oscar de la Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling

And I consider myself a scrubby historian compared to most of you...

[circleinsidebox]

Margarito-Cotto but we all know that fight was a fraud now.

the rematch won't be
and sadly it will produce
the same result (cotto kneeling before his king)

[teddycanyon]

Margarito-Cotto
Vazquez-Marquez III
Pacquiao-JMM II

[TintaBoricua]

the rematch won't be
and sadly it will produce
the same result (cotto kneeling before his king)

How dare you, circle!

If Cotto loses, it's a decision loss. There is no way he loses by stoppage again.

On topic, people will all disagree on what a megafight is.

Is a megafight judged by how much it sells?
By the potential match-up?
By the fireworks that it produced?
By the people that want to see it and are demanding it?

I usually go by the fourth option, but the thread starter is right. Many times these megafights don't deliver on what we frequently dream of.

The only fights I can think of that was both anticipated by the world and that it delivered were four:

Louis/Schmeling I
Ali/Frazier I
Ray Leonard/Hearns I
Ray Leonard/Hagler

[$tate of Mind]

I thought of mentioning Cotto-Margarito but it wasn't a MEGAFIGHT.

If you want to say that it was a megafight among BOXING FANS (HARDCORE BOXING FANS), yes.

But if you want to include megafights (literally MEGAFIGHTS) where EVERYBODY (even casual fans) are talking about it, you'd only be able to mention a few:

Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather
Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye
Floyd Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton (maybe?)
Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I
Oscar de la Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling

And I consider myself a scrubby historian compared to most of you...

I agree with you, to me mega fights are fights that peek the general publics interest.

[BennyST]

I can't think of a megafight that wasn't a disappointment. Your thread is pretty accurate.

Duran vs Leonard
Leonard vs Hagler
Leonard vs Hearns
Hearns vs Hagler
Duran vs Palomino
Duran vs Hagler
Ali vs Frazier
Ali vs Foreman
Holmes vs Norton

It's mainly today that the superfights aren't living up to expectations. Though Pac vs Marquez II was great as was Morales vs Barrera/Pac for today's fights.

There are many great superfights but sadly they are getting worse and worse and also not being made as much. When the best, like Pac, take on fighters who haven't won a fight in over two years and are 40 years old, you know boxing's supposed superfights truly suck and are more farce than fight.