Top ten heavyweight fights of the last ten years?

[crold1]

Brewster vs Klitschko 1 certainly warrants a mention. I just love Brewster's "Relentless" tag, not so much a nickname as simply a perfect description of his style. Here's the first round of Brewster vs Etienne (from May 2000). Unfrotunately I've not seen the rest of the fight, but if it's anything like this then that fight has to go down as one of the greatest of all time.

It's a scrap. First round was best round; fairly one-sided from there but still thrilling. Ettienne actually outdid it a few months later with Clay-Bey (in what was probably the second best Heavyweight action fight the 2000s after Brewster-Lyak)...

...then we found out about the glass skull. Yikes.

[New England]

List needs more Brewster. The first fight with Wlad was pretty awesome and no lower than 3rd given I agree with your first two. The wars with Meehan (even with a bad decision) and the war with Kraniqi (where he had to score two knockouts on the road to win) bury stuff like Brock-Chambers and Peter-Toney. Wlad-Brewster I was much better than that sloppy Arreola-Walker fight too.

The Ettienne war was a little outside this range, but was epic too. Dude WAS the excitement at Heavyweight for that little run he had 04-06.

yo i got a fever
and the only prescription
is more lamon brewster


i'll respectfully disagree about arreola and walker though
those guys threw down at a pace they could never sustain and you knew it wouldnt last

[crold1]

yo i got a fever
and the only prescription
is more lamon brewster


i'll respectfully disagree about arreola and walker though
those guys threw down at a pace they could never sustain and you knew it wouldnt last

Yeah, Walker is a D fighter and that was a sloppy B fight. Wlad-Lamon I is a war at higher levels IMO.

and, yeah, I had Walken in my head when I wrote that.

[JAB5239]

Brewster vs Klitschko 1 certainly warrants a mention. I just love Brewster's "Relentless" tag, not so much a nickname as simply a perfect description of his style. Here's the first round of Brewster vs Etienne (from May 2000). Unfrotunately I've not seen the rest of the fight, but if it's anything like this then that fight has to go down as one of the greatest of all time.





Minto's a warrior. Very fun fighter, despite his limitations. Quite nice to see Chambers in two fights on your list. Chambers's style isn't that pleasing on its own, but he always seems to be involved in better than average fights, due to his rather passive defensive nature coupled with his constant coming forward which seems to force fighters to open up on him more and get crisply countered in the process.

Ha, the mention of Ettiene got me thinking (no easy feat!) and I just remembered the Ettiene vs Clay-Bey fight was an excellent scrap!!

[The Surgeon]

Ha, the mention of Ettiene got me thinking (no easy feat!) and I just remembered the Ettiene vs Clay-Bey fight was an excellent scrap!!

Some decent fights mentioned here but and i hate to be the party pooper i think its sad that in the last TEN YEARS these are the best fights we can muster up from our HW's.

Ettiene vs Clay-Bey was a classic tho, even better than Brewster vs The White Wolf but then that was a lil Over 10 years now


Edit: BTW does anyone have a copy of The Black Rhino vs Clay-Bey they can upload? My own copy is in Russian!

[JAB5239]

Some decent fights mentioned here but and i hate to be the party pooper i think its sad that in the last TEN YEARS these are the best fights we can muster up from our HW's.

Ettiene vs Clay-Bey was a classic tho, even better than Brewster vs The White Wolf but then that was a lil Over 10 years now


Edit: BTW does anyone have a copy of The Black Rhino vs Clay-Bey they can upload? My own copy is in Russian!

I think I've only seen it once on ESPN classic, since it happened. Its not on youtube?

[The Surgeon]

I think I've only seen it once on ESPN classic, since it happened. Its not on youtube?

I dont know about You Tube but when i used to like a complete MUG buy my boxing dvds out of the boxing mags ect, nobody could ever supply me with that fight, i downloaded it from here but there only seems to be the Russian version which is incredibly off putting!

[JAB5239]

I dont know about You Tube but when i used to like a complete MUG buy my boxing dvds out of the boxing mags ect, nobody could ever supply me with that fight, i downloaded it from here but there only seems to be the Russian version which is incredibly off putting!

Check with Obama, he can probably help you.

[Welsh Jon]

you have to take haye v barrett off this list, other than that, i really like this list.

mesi jirov was a GREAT fight, I'm surprised no one had wlad-brewster on their lists

I would have in no partiucular order:

Lewis-Vit
Lyakhovitch v Brewster
Wlad-Brewster
Wlad V Peter 1
Mesi Jirov
Freakin Arreola-Adamek
Sanders-Vit
Povetkin-Chambers
Brewster-Krasniqui
CHambers-Dimitrinko


And just for fun I give a HUUUUUUUUGE honorable mention to any good Brian Minto fight like vs Maddalone and Arreola.

I found Haye-Barrett quite fun. I thought Haye was gonna bring some excitement to the division but it didn't quite work out like that!