Top 10 Most ANTICIPATED fights of all time

[HewJohnson]

Regardless of the outcome of the fight, this thread is about the most ANTICIPATED matches of all time.

Let’s see if any of you pretend boxing fans really know your stuff, you should be able to pull memories of the excitement prior to a fight and what the public behavior was like.

I’ll throw some names and let’s see if we can put together a list of the TOP 10.

De La Hoya-Mayweather

Pacquiao-Mayweather (obviously number one)

Pacquiao-Marquez 3

Mayweather-Canelo

Tyson-Holyfield II

De La Hoya-Trinidad

Ali-Frazier


Let’s keep it going. Drop some of the most anticipated matches!! I know Cotto got a couple in there.

[dalvecc]

Ali Frazier 1
Tyson holyfield
Mayweather pac
Hagler Leonard

[TheMyspaceDayz]

Easy.

Plant-Feigenbutz

[HewJohnson]

Ali Frazier 1
Tyson holyfield
Mayweather pac
Hagler Leonard

Them older bouts were hyped af.

Aside from the most obvious highly anticipated matches, is there any matches that come to mind that were highly hyped up but not may have been in the upper echelon of box office sales?

I think the 1st Cotto Margarito bout was super anticipated from a Mexican Puerto Rico rivalry.

And that Loma vs. Rigo bout was pretty hype. Loma schooled him.

[Larry the boss]

Louis-Smelling

Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns

Ali-Frazier

Mayweahter-Pacquiao

Leonard-Hagler

Tyson-Lewis

Gatti-Ward

Leonard-Hearns

[Longhaul]

Leonard Duran was a big build Up.PPV before PPV it was on cc tv.Who could forget the hype around the great white hope vs Holmes.I remember a tremendous amount of hype for Puerto Rico vs Mexico - Sanchez vs Gomez.

[NORMNEALON]

Regardless of the outcome of the fight, this thread is about the most ANTICIPATED matches of all time.

Let’s see if any of you pretend boxing fans really know your stuff, you should be able to pull memories of the excitement prior to a fight and what the public behavior was like.

I’ll throw some names and let’s see if we can put together a list of the TOP 10.

De La Hoya-Mayweather

Pacquiao-Mayweather (obviously number one)

Pacquiao-Marquez 3

Mayweather-Canelo

Tyson-Holyfield II

De La Hoya-Trinidad

Ali-Frazier


Let’s keep it going. Drop some of the most anticipated matches!! I know Cotto got a couple in there.

Where is schmeling Louis 2 ?? Arguably the biggest fight of all time . That and ali frazier which u have listed here

[Boxing_1013]

Only have 5

GGG-Canelo 1
GGG-Canelo 2
GGG-Canelo 3
GGG-Canelo 4
GGG-Canelo 5

[Boxing_1013]

Where is schmeling Louis 2 ?? Arguably the biggest fight of all time . That and ali frazier which u have listed here

I think fights 1 and 2 have to be up there...probably as highly anticipated as any 2 fights out there

[Boxing_1013]

Mayweather-Pac was not a big one for me - can't say that is definitely number 1 - maybe for casuals...if they fought 5 years prior when they should have it would have been deserving of top 10 imo...but as it was, that one was more of an event rather than a fight...I didn't really care about it at all; though I did eagerly Google who won the next morning when I woke up.