Biggest fight of all time?

[Mike D]

Klitschko Jennings

Nah. My vote goes to Berto/Lopez.

[Ryannn]

Pretty good shout, I would say.

been reading on it lately and those fights were huge due to the political and racial undertones.

wonder if there are any 100 year old posters here who have a first hand account of those fights

anyways, this fight is pretty big but i dunno, something about the lewis-tyson fight felt bigger than this.

[Sweet Pea 50]

been reading on it lately and those fights were huge due to the political and racial undertones.

wonder if there are any 100 year old posters here who have a first hand account of those fights

anyways, this fight is pretty big but i dunno, something about the lewis-tyson fight felt bigger than this.

Boy, let me tell ya. Ice skated 10 miles uphill to school both ways. When the men were men, and the sheep were scared.

Spinks-Tyson had a pretty big build up, from what I can remember. Could have been the destruction included in my memory banks.

[LacedUp]

JACK DEMPSEY WAS IN THE BIGGEST FIGHTS OF ALL TIME LEARN YOUR HISTORY. ONE OF HIS FIGHT RESULTS WAS THE FRONT PAGE HEADLINE OF THE COUNTRIES NEWSPAPERS INSTEAD OF THE START OF A WAR OR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR SOMETHING. I AINT GOT TIME FOR THESE PEOPLE ON HERE WHO ONLY KNOW BOXING FROM 2005-PRESENT. YALL LAME FOOLS

I know all about Jack Dempsey, thank you very much.

[Ryannn]

Boy, let me tell ya. Ice skated 10 miles uphill to school both ways. When the men were men, and the sheep were scared.

Spinks-Tyson had a pretty big build up, from what I can remember. Could have been the destruction included in my memory banks.

TMT seemed to go the "let the fight promote itself" route which is fine, but I think they are overdoing it a bit.

hopefully this gets more hype in the next couple of weeks.

[LacedUp]

Ali-Frazier 1 I think takes the cake.

This one isn't nothing to sneeze at, though.

Will the fight itself live up to the hyperbolic numbers that it should generate?

We can only wait and see.

I agree. Two undefeated, prime heavyweight champions against each other AND it was a great fight.

Hasn't happened before or since.

I agree though, that this fight is up there. What do you think of the comparison to Leonard-Duran 1? Although both Duran and Leonard were at their absolute peak at the time.

Weren't the Louis-Schmeling fights huge because of the whole US vs. **** thing?

Yes. I mean, there has been many great and very big fights in the past Louis-Schmeling one of them. Both of them actually. Dempsey-Carpentier was huge.

But I tend not to include that old fights because the world wasn't exposed to the fighters on the same level as they are now.

Fights like Holmes-Cooney, Tyson-Holyfield, some of the Dela Hoya fights, Liston-Clay I , Holmes-Norton et al, aren't to be sniffed at either.

Especially Holmes-Cooney was a massive fight and one of the most (if not the most) viewed fight in history.

[MindBat]

been reading on it lately and those fights were huge due to the political and racial undertones.

wonder if there are any 100 year old posters here who have a first hand account of those fights

anyways, this fight is pretty big but i dunno, something about the lewis-tyson fight felt bigger than this.

I was around back when everybody wanted see Jack Johnson get KTFO.

There were some racial tensions back then.

[goodvibes]

In terms of hype I guess would Ali-Frazier or Ali-Foreman. Maybe even Hagler-Leonard or Leonard/Duran. *Edit* woops. Didn't realize my answer was identical to the poll. Lol.. I'd take Ali/Foreman. Ali had all of Zaire behind him.

Plus, Julio Cesar Chavez vs Greg Haugen did like 100k + of spectators. So I guess that could be considered "big" too

[SlySlickSmooth]

If almost all of the Philippines watches Manny fights, and its been documented everything stops for a Pac fight there, then that's a guaranteed 70-90 million viewers..

[Elroy1]

Obviously is Pac vs May.

We've only been asking for it for over a decade!