What are the best boxing performances in history?

[daggum]

Scraping by and getting owned, vastly different you Mayhater

what do you mean? scraping by trout who was a solid but unspectacular fighter showed canelo's level at the time, or at least his level vs non aggressive boxer types(floyds style) then when you add in the drained aspect and the aspect of 2 154 pound champs mind bogglingly(hi wilder) fighting at 152 its really not that great of a win at least historically speaking. also as far as performance wise it wasnt that great. floyd landed 2-3 good solid shots a round where canelo landed like 1. pac did something similar to floyd but people refused to see it like that and pretended floyds air jabs were more effective than pacs head rocking shots. such is life.

[BodyBagz]

what do you mean? scraping by trout who was a solid but unspectacular fighter showed canelo's level at the time, or at least his level vs non aggressive boxer types(floyds style) then when you add in the drained aspect and the aspect of 2 154 pound champs mind bogglingly(hi wilder) fighting at 152 its really not that great of a win at least historically speaking. also as far as performance wise it wasnt that great. floyd landed 2-3 good solid shots a round where canelo landed like 1. pac did something similar to floyd but people refused to see it like that and pretended floyds air jabs were more effective than pacs head rocking shots. such is life.

There are worst performances than Nelo vs Trout. Too many to name.

You have too much hate for May to take seriously

[daggum]

There are worst performances than Nelo vs Trout. Too many to name.

You have too much hate for May to take seriously

yes there are worse performances but he didnt look great now did he? it showed he was very hesitant to engage against people who stood back and didnt initiate first which is what floyd does all fight. to beat floyd he would have to have the pace, motor, and stamina to throw first and force the action. and at 152? just not possible, prob wasnt possible at 154 given the way he fought trout since he was boiling down just to make 154 but when you look at the way he fought ggg in the rematch and the way he fought feather fisted floyd? wow huge difference. now he was also loaded on roids in that ggg rematch of course so that has to be factored in as well.

as for trout, lets be realistic here, he was a right place at the riht time kind of guy. his only notable win was over cotto who never did anything notable above 147(no knee martinez was laughable) when you look at trouts other fight...lost to canelo, lost to jermall, lost to jermell, lost to hurd, lost to lara.

[BodyBagz]

yes there are worse performances but he didnt look great now did he? it showed he was very hesitant to engage against people who stood back and didnt initiate first which is what floyd does all fight. to beat floyd he would have to have the pace, motor, and stamina to throw first and force the action. and at 152? just not possible, prob wasnt possible at 154 given the way he fought trout since he was boiling down just to make 154 but when you look at the way he fought ggg in the rematch and the way he fought feather fisted floyd? wow huge difference. now he was also loaded on roids in that ggg rematch of course so that has to be factored in as well.

as for trout, lets be realistic here, he was a right place at the riht time kind of guy. his only notable win was over cotto who never did anything notable above 147(no knee martinez was laughable) when you look at trouts other fight...lost to canelo, lost to jermall, lost to jermell, lost to hurd, lost to lara.

I suppose, had Pac found the courage, would have done better at the same weight ?

[sunny31]

Morales vs Pac 1 - beat him then stood toe to toe southpaw in the last round for the hell of it

[3rdcharlotwin]

Ali-Williams
Ali-Liston I
Jones-Toney
Jones-Ruiz
Trinidad-Joppy
Hopkins-Trinidad
Hopkins-Pavlik
Mayweather-N'Dou
Pacqiuao-Morales II
Barrera-Hamed
Forrest-Mosley I
Mosley-Margarito
Calzaghe-Lacy
Mayweather-Hatton
Martinez-Pavlik
Martinez-Chavez
Rigondeaux-Donaire

[PRINCEKOOL]

Just a few.

Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman.
Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Listen I.
Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns.
Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks.
Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson I.
Joe Calzaghe vs Jeff Lacey.
Roy Jones Junior vs James Toney.

[edgarg]

Mayweather vs Corrales
Rigo vs Donaire
Hopkins vs Pavlik
Pacquiao vs Cotto
Forrest vs Mosley 1
Winky vs Trinidad
Froch vs Bute
Barrera vs Naseem
Maidana vs Broner
De la hoya vs Mayorga

Just 10 off the top of my head from the 2000s

Maybe all the others although I see seveal very doubtfuls that I don't have time to go into. But Mayweathe-Corrales is a definite out, a 1000% in the opposite direction. Corrales was a dead man walking. If you don't know the story, then you don't know much of anything to do with the underPscenes of boxing. Read up on it. Ty to get some real facts. Do you really think that Mayweather would fight an unbeaten killer KO artist like Corrales unless He KNEW that Corrales was in deep trouble and would be a walkover. Corrales spent all his "training" time in the sweatbox and the morning of the weigh in was still nearly 10 lbs overweight. His body had been doing the last minute weight drop for so long that it didn't work for him any more.
Which is why he's already gone up to lightweight. He had to be almost carried to the scales by a friend. He did NO training and had no interest in the fight, which he took ONLY because he needed the money to pay his lawyers . He went to Jail for 2 years immediately after the "fight"... and much more.

[edgarg]

A best boxing performance, actually a series of best boxing performances, in my opinion are by two long forgotten REAL fighters. Ted "Kid" Lewis, and Jack Britton's 20 fight series for the world welterweight title. Lewis began his career as an underweight underage flyweight, and in his career actually fought all his way up even to heavyweight, collecting many titles on the way, even at an old age. Had hundreds of fights all REAL fights. He was a real killer. He even fought Wold light-heavyweight Champion Georges Carpentier. when only a little over the welterweight limit. In his mi,d 70's chased and caught and beat up a bag snatcher, in London where he was born and died. He had a REAL story, not the glorified nonsense that you see on the screen these days with so much fuss made about them.

[Johnny Rubber]

I suppose it depends on what you look for in a boxer. Skillful / spiteful has always been a good balance for me. Too many to list, but off the top of my head....

Pac v Cotto
Benn v Mcclellan
Calzaghe v Kessler
Matthysse v Ajose
Froch v Pascal
Barrera v Morales 1
Mayweather v Canelo
Maidana v Broner