What was the greatest heavyweight fight that you ever seen?

[GunStar]

awesome, awesome fight. proof that Ibeabuchi would have walked through all the top 20 heavyweights of today in 2 years

Exactly, Ike was a monster that actually had some skills for a big guy.

[ZOSOOSOZ]

In no order:

Bowe/Holyfield I

Holyfield/Cooper

Tua/Ibeabuchi

Bowe/Golota II

Foreman/Lyle

Lewis/Klitschko

[JohnL]

1. Frazier/Ali I (although I wasn't happy with the result)
2. Ali/Frazier III
3. Foreman/Lyle
4. Ali/Foreman
5. Foreman/Moorer (Yes, it was one sided-but what a finish)

[spinksjinx]

1. Frazier/Ali I (although I wasn't happy with the result)
2. Ali/Frazier III
3. Foreman/Lyle
4. Ali/Foreman
5. Foreman/Moorer (Yes, it was one sided-but what a finish)

Totally agree I loved that fight.

Holyfield vs Foreman was another great fight.

[The Troll]

Most of Tyson's fights are exemely entertaining to watch at least to my taste. The ones that end early are usually still enteraining, the brutality of his knockouts against overmatched opponents is horrible but there is still something so entertaining about his PERFORMANCES.

Even better are Mike Tyson CONTESTS such as against JAMES QUICK TILLIS, Razor Ruddock, Tony Tucker, Evander Holyfield I etc.

Off the topic but you can tell that Buster Douglas closely studied the game plan of James Quick Tillis whom I believe fought Tyson in only his 20th fight or so.

Quick Tillis gave Douglas the blueprint for Douglas' victory, whatever Tyson's condition was.

[Easy-E]

Yeah I'm going to have to agree with the topic starter.

Thrilla was great, full of action, lasted even longer and the scenario itself was bigger than life.

I wasn't jumping out of my chair like I was Bowe v.s. Holyfield.

That's all I can say.

perhaps thats becasuse you already knew who won...

[The Troll]

Rid**** Bowe was an exciting fighter. I never liked him at all when he was fighting or really respected him much. I mean I respect him in the sense that his in fact a great great boxer who reached the absolute pinicale of the sport. Only as a champion I really never gave him much thought among great champions.

But then, you look at the events he was involved in. The Holyfield trilogy, the Golota debacle. Rid**** Bowe may very well have been midiocre amongst true champions but he still holds very, very good company there. The mediocrity of his championship reign perhaps is what makes him stand out and what produced the great events that he was apart of.

[Truth]

Mike tyson Razor ruddock 1 & 2. nothing beats thrilla in manilla thou.


yesterdays fight was also pretty good but offcourse not as good as thrilla in manilla or bowe-holyfield etc.



regards

The Tyson vs. Ruddock fights were insane! But I would say the best heavyweight fight I have ever see was Ali vs. Frazier III.

[Hydro]

The Fight of the Century, The Thrillla in Manila, and the Bowe-Golota rematch.

[Hydro]

For me it was Tyson V Bruno thats when we seen Mike at his best

No it wasn't.

The 1st Bruno fight was when he started to see more of Tyson's bad habits, in the first fight with his new crappy corner. And the rematch was the closest Tyson looked after prison to being pre-prison, but still, he wasn't the same. No fighter is going to be inactive for 4 years and not able to train like a professional boxer and then be the same as before.

Rid**** Bowe was an exciting fighter. I never liked him at all when he was fighting or really respected him much. I mean I respect him in the sense that his in fact a great great boxer who reached the absolute pinicale of the sport. Only as a champion I really never gave him much thought among great champions.

But then, you look at the events he was involved in. The Holyfield trilogy, the Golota debacle. Rid**** Bowe may very well have been midiocre amongst true champions but he still holds very, very good company there. The mediocrity of his championship reign perhaps is what makes him stand out and what produced the great events that he was apart of.

He could've and should've been better but he ate too damn much. He had the talent.

I still say he was unforunate to lose the title to Holyfield in the rematch. Holyfield was a tad lucky with the situation and the cards.