What's Your List of the Greatest Heavyweight Fights of the Past 25 Years?

[Joeyzagz]

Here ya go.

1987 Tyson-Pinklon Thomas
1988 Tyson-Spinks
1989 Tyson-Bruno
1990 Douglas-Tyson
1991 Mercer Morrison
1992 Bowe-Holy I
1993 Lennox-Ruddock
1994 Foreman-Moorer
1995 Bowe-Holy III
1996 Tyson-Holy I
1997 Tyson-Holy II
1998 Lennox-Briggs
1999 Ike-Byrd
2000 Byrd-Vitali
2001 Lennox-Rahman II
2002 Lennox-Tyson
2003 Lennox-Vitali
2004 Brewster-Waldo I
2005 Vitali-Sanders
2006 Briggs-Liakhovich
2007 Povetkin-Chambers
2008 Vitali-Peter
2009 Vitali-Arreola
2010 Haye-Ruiz
2011 Fury-Chisora

[CubanGuyNYC]

I see. I apologize if I implied you hadn't seen a lot of them.

But you said you thought welterweight had more "great" fights ... can you name them?

I fired off a pretty long list of heavyweight fights (at least 50 or 60) off the top of my head (and have thought of a few more since then) ... can you name 40 or 50 great welterweight fights over the last 25 years?

I started you off with a list of fights I thought were great:

Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto
Oscar De La Hoya-Ike Quartey
Oscar De La Hoya-Shane Mosley 1
Simon Brown-Maurice Blocker ... do you have 45 or 46 more so we can compare ... since you thought welterweight had better fights than heavyweight?

No need to apologize, but thank you for doing so.

I'll start by quoting my original response to your first post on this thread:

I see you seconded some of my few choices. I haven't seen all these bouts. Some I saw when they happened and never watched them again. I'm going on memory here, so I might be off base, but a few of the fights you list didn't seem all that great to me: the Tyson-Ruddock fights and Lewis-Tyson. Also, I feel that the "quick knockouts," while memorable, don't qualify as great fights. Very nice list, though.

You've almost certainly watched more fights than I have; your recollection is clearly better. I simply can't rattle off dozens of fights off the top of my head. Therefore, I can't make my case with the kind of evidence you've provided. My statements are based on my general impressions. I think I've been clear on this.

Memory is notoriously unreliable. Perhaps you're right. Maybe the heavyweights do offer better overall fights. It's just that I don't recall it that way. Most of the times that I watch a heavyweight fight, I'm disgusted at the level of conditioning and sloppiness on display. On the whole, the lighter fighters tend to wage better battles. Again, that's my (strong) impression...and my opinion.

That said, I just got done watching Liakhovich-Brewster. You compared it to Berto-Ortiz, and you won't get an argument from me. Great fight.

Another fight I hadn't seen was Mesi-Jirov. The bout turned out to be surprisingly good. It was a spirited fight until the eighth round, when the steam started to let out. At that point it was pretty one-sided in "Baby" Joe's favor. However, in the ninth and tenth, Vasili managed to find dig deep and make the fight a nail-biter.

Thanks for sharing your list of heavyweight fights. I'll be watching (and re-watching) more of them.

[-KPB-]

I wasn't watching boxing in the 90s, but since I started in 2000 we've had some good ones:

Sanders-Vitali
Lewis-Vitali
Wlad-Peter I
Helenius-Peter
Brewster-Lyakhovich
Brewster-Krasniqi
Quinn-Lyakhovich (great fight, look for it)
Chisora-Fury


some nice quick KOs:

Wlad-Bostice
Wlad-Jefferson
Wlad-Austin
Brewster-Golota
Helenius-Levin
Vitali-Johnson
Vitali-Hide
Price-Butler

Lol...how da fcuk did you forget Wlad vs Ibragimov

[Deal With It]

I wasn't watching boxing in the 90s, but since I started in 2000 we've had some good ones:

Sanders-Vitali
Lewis-Vitali
Wlad-Peter I
Helenius-Peter
Brewster-Lyakhovich
Brewster-Krasniqi
Quinn-Lyakhovich (great fight, look for it)
Chisora-Fury


some nice quick KOs:

Wlad-Bostice
Wlad-Jefferson
Wlad-Austin
Brewster-Golota
Helenius-Levin
Vitali-Johnson
Vitali-Hide
Price-Butler

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