What is a must watch for casual boxing fans?

[filthybliss]

Basically the title, I watch boxing very sporadically live but do consider myself a casual fan that would love to witness some classics so feel free to share!

 

[Nova44]

There's a fourth fight, but it's a regrettable experience.

 

[Athenry04]

Hagler-Hearns
Benn-Eubank
Katsidis-Earl
Barrera-Morales
Gatti-Ward
Gomez-Arthur
etc, etc, etc, etc ad finitum.
Best sport in the world.

 

[zapataxiv]

some all time favorites
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor 1
Bobby Chacon vs Bazooka Limon (they fought each other a bunch but any of their fights are gold)
George Benton vs Rubin Carter (best defense vs best offense)
Mike McCallum vs James Toney 1 and 2 (extremely technical matches between two masters of the craft)
Michael Carbajal vs Humberto Soto
Johnny Tapia vs Danny Romero
Jose Napoles vs Hedgemon Lewis (they fought a bunch too but any of their fights are awesome)
Aaron Pryor vs Alexis Arguello 1 and 2 (absolute wars between two of the best fighters of all time)
Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor (Amazing war where you have to wonder how the fuck Lupe had so much God damn heart)
Bobby Chacon vs cornelius boza Edwards 2

 

[Hagler]

Ezra Sellers vs Carl Thompson, Johnny Nelson and Alex Stewart. You'll thank me later.

 

[treelo]

Nigel Benn v Gerald McClellan
Nigel Benn v Iran Barkley
Lennox Lewis v Vitali Klitschko
Evander Holyfield v Riddick Bowe 1
Marvin Hagler v Thomas Hearns

 

[zapataxiv]

Nigel Benn v Gerald McClellan
Nigel Benn v Iran Barkley
Lennox Lewis v Vitali Klitschko
Evander Holyfield v Riddick Bowe 1
Marvin Hagler v Thomas Hearns

watch Benn vs McClellen before looking up the aftermath

 

[StopDucking]

First, just go and watch all the Ring magazine’s fights of the year you can find. Not only those are great fights but they are fights you have to be familiar with as a boxing fan.

The Ring magazine Fight of the Year - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[JeetKunDoGuy]

Hagler v Mugabi
Toney v McCallum 1
Pacquiao v morales 1-3

So many more but those are a few good ones

 

[treelo]

First, just go and watch all the Ring magazine’s fights of the year you can find. Not only those are great fights but they are fights you have to be familiar with as a boxing fan.

The Ring magazine Fight of the Year - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

little bit of a spoiler that link, it gives all the results as well

 

[PBAC]

Basically the title, I watch boxing very sporadically live but do consider myself a casual fan that would love to witness some classics so feel free to share!

Follow Inoue
Joshua v Wlad
Bradley v Provodnikov
Maidana v Khan
Pac v Marquez alle

 

[PBAC]

lol everyone in the thread trying not to mention Ali-Frazier

 

[Emporio Alnino]

some of my favorite CW and HW scraps:

james toney vs vassiliy jirov
bert cooper vs henry tillman
evander holyfield vs dwight muhammad qawi 1
jean marc mormeck vs o'neil bell 1
chisanda mutti vs lee roy murphy
tomasz adamek vs steve cunningham
murat gassiev vs yuniel dorticos
alex stewart vs michael moorer
george foreman vs ron lyle
ike ibeabuchi vs david tua

 

[Nova44]

watch Benn vs McClellen before looking up the aftermath

The fight is biased BS too, and remember i'm English. Makes me annoyed every time i think about that fight. Headbutts, ref being a twat, Don King abandoning his coma-inbound fighter for Benn.

I'd erase that fight from my memory if i could. I really hope there's a special corner of hell reserved for King when he passes.

 

[randomg1t]

a more recent example for me would be GGG vs canelo. the fight lived up to the buildup, their styles matched perfectly, both are exciting boxers that brought everything and fought their ass off.

the end result pissed me off to no end, so i only ever watched it once, but i remember thinking it was an instant classic.

as for older examples of legendary fights, you can't miss with marvin hagler.

 

[djacobox372]

Foreman vs.Lyle

 

[Kratos94]

Rodriguez-Edwards was a great, recent fight