Top 5 Most Intense Fights

[El Gitano]

Barrera/Hamed - I felt Hamed could KO Barrera at any time so I was tensed up all the way until the last bell rang.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Barrera/Hamed - I felt Hamed could KO Barrera at any time so I was tensed up all the way until the last bell rang.

Its weird today that in hindsight a lot of people call hamed a fraud, but damn that fight to was an amazing matchup..it might not have been then osnt competitive fight but leading up to it, it was a huge huge fight

[!! Shawn]

Marquez Vazquez 1
Marquez Vazquez 2
Marquez Vazquez 3
Ali vs Frazier III
Duran vs Leonard I

I mean how many trilogies do you see where the fighters beat the prime out of each other? And every one of the fights is a barn burner.

[Flabulous]

Mancini vs Bramble I and II.

marquez vs vazquez I

Ali vs Frazier III

Hagler vs Hearns (of course)

Bradley vs Provodnikov (that is one of the most intense fights of the past few decades for sure)

[Real King Kong]

Corrales-Castillo 1
Barrera-Morales (all of them)
Leonard-Hearns 1
Bowe-Holyfield 1
Ward-Gatti 1

The 2nd barrera vs morales fight wasn't that good. I'd take morales vs pac 1 over that.

[LoadedWraps]

So, list the top 5 fights which you felt were the most intense ever in boxing, keep in mind a combination of the brutality on show in the fight, the intensity of the crowd and the animosity of the rivalry.

Mine would be something like:

5. Eubank v Benn 1
4. Resto v Collins Jr
3. Ali v Frazier 1
2. Ali v Frazier 3
1. Benn v McClelan

You have Eubank/Benn as 1...

And you don't even list fights like:

Tyson/Holyfield I
Maidana/Mayweather I
Maidana/Broner
Castillo/Corrales
Hamed/Barrera
Morales/Pacquiao
Toney/RJJ
Fury/Wlad

??

Exposed as a troll or casual or DKSAB.

[80sboxingrules]

hearns-hagler
bowe-holyfield 1
holyfield-cooper
lewis-briggs
hearns-duran

[soul_survivor]

Dumb list without Morales vs Barrera

If I was making a top 10 then this would definitely be on it but watching it from home, the atmosphere was nothing like what the other fights felt (again watching from home). Especially the big British fights. The crowd is in so close, they are a group of real boxing fans not nationalists, alcohol has flowed, there was just a sense of pure violence and blood in the air.

Especially with Benn/Mc, that was a nasty, nasty fight between 2 nasty individuals.

Hagler vs hearns without question
Duran vs leonard 1
Barrera vs morales
Eubank vs Benn 1
Bowe vs golota 1

Again, Hagler/Hearn would have made a top 10.

I don't feel Duran/Leonard had the same intensity in terms of crowd or the naimosity between the two.

Bowe-Golota was a *** fest lol I genuinely forgot about this one, it had the riot right?

[soul_survivor]

You have Eubank/Benn as 1...

And you don't even list fights like:

Tyson/Holyfield I
Maidana/Mayweather I
Maidana/Broner
Castillo/Corrales
Hamed/Barrera
Morales/Pacquiao
Toney/RJJ
Fury/Wlad

??

Exposed as a troll or casual or DKSAB.

I have Eubank/Benn at 5...

Also, Maidana/Mayweather? You think that was more violent and intense than ANY of the fights I listed? Hamed/Barrera too? The guys landed like 30 punches a round. Toney/RJJ? The crowd was asleep half way through.

My list is not exhaustive and obviously subjective to a certain degree but if you want to list more intense fights, you can't be listing those, in terms of the fans, the punches and the sheer brutality. That's utter trash.

[The plunger man]

If I was making a top 10 then this would definitely be on it but watching it from home, the atmosphere was nothing like what the other fights felt (again watching from home). Especially the big British fights. The crowd is in so close, they are a group of real boxing fans not nationalists, alcohol has flowed, there was just a sense of pure violence and blood in the air.

Especially with Benn/Mc, that was a nasty, nasty fight between 2 nasty individuals.



Again, Hagler/Hearn would have made a top 10.

I don't feel Duran/Leonard had the same intensity in terms of crowd or the naimosity between the two.

Bowe-Golota was a *** fest lol I genuinely forgot about this one, it had the riot right?

Let me explain .....I can see your point with the leonard -duran fight ...maybe the commentating seems distant and so it's difficult to imagine what the leonard vs duran fight was like but I've read numerous books about the brawl in Montreal..besides watching it.,they reckon the intensity of that fight was insane.....they hated eachother and there was so much venom and spite in that fight......leonards wife fainted and had to be carried out the arena by the 5th round beczuse of its brutalality...it rained most of the night in the stadium and only stopped just before the bout and there was almost 50,000 most of them wearing bin liners as protection from the rain...savage inside fighting and they reckon there was steam coming from both fighters because the action was so intense and brutal....if you can try and read an old fight report on the Internet and then your understand., Duran actually knocked out leonards brother in the ring after the final bell went , read up on it fella.....hagler vs hearns ....look I've seen a lot of fights as a big fan of boxing and I was only a youngster of 12 when I watched live at a closed circuit at 5am in the morning....there was 600 people packed into the guildhall ...and the build up to fight was something and they also hated eachother , and when that fight kicked off the place exploded literally ...bear in mind I'm in the UK and it was almost morning but it was like you was there ...50/50 supporters all screaming for blood ....trust me mate ...never seen anything like it till this day in terms of atmosphere when boxing was involved....yep and the bowe golota fight was savage and the crowd was like a scene from a riot movie...savage and Lou duva had to be carried out the ring uncontious