Greatest performance?

[Beanflicker]

Ok, I know how we all hate to narrow S*** down and we perfer to make a list, but for this thread I want to know what everyone thinks is THE SINGLE best virtuoso performance. The criteria should be the dominance of the performance and the skill displayed by the athlete in question, but the quality of the opponent should play a big factor in the decision. Obviously, dominating a quality opponent makes for a much better performance than dominating a journeyman or a bum.

I'm thinking Floyd Mayweather vs. Diego Corrales. Diego was a top-level opponent who was like 34-0 at the time with 27 KOs and Floyd just obliterated him. I really think this was Floyd at his absolute best. Amazing foot speed, hand speed, ring generalship, defense, accuracy. He looked like the PERFECT fighter. Diego landed in single digits iin EVERY single round.

No lists, no "honorable mentions", just pick ONE performance.

[the phenom]

tyson vs alot of people before the 90s
roy jones vs toney
hurts me to say but Tarver-jones 2, even though jones was shot
hopkins-tarver comes to mind
winky-trinidad
forres-mosely
mayweather-gatti,judah,ndou,corales, and alot of tohers
cotto-judah,mailinginai,quintana
hatton-tzu,castillo
i no im missin some but thas all i got for now

[eagle]

Ali v Foreman

[eagle]

Salvador Sanchez v Wilfredo Gomez?

[Beanflicker]

Ali v Foreman

I dunno if I can agree to that, it was a good gameplan/performance by Ali, but he sure took a hell of a lot of punishment to get there.

[BoomBoom]

Willie Pep-Jackie Graves

[boxingfan0987]

Foreman vs Frazier because they were both great fighters and I knew George would win but I didnt know he would knock him out as much as he did. Frazier was a great fighter and george made him look like like he couldn't even defend himself

[CutMeMick]

Salvador Sanchez v Wilfredo Gomez?

Good one eagle, 'Chava' defintely fought the fight of his life that day.

Joe vs. Jeff
McGuigan vs. Pedroza
MAB vs. Naz
Palomino vs. Stracey

[brucelee]

Pac vs MAB

[gyrokai]

Morales Paquiao I

Manny should have won, but my man, favorite boxer, just did everything right.
The only thing was he went lefty to show off and was hurt in the closing seconds.

Pacquiao was and is a dangerous storm. Inside and out of the ring.

[p4pking]

Whittaker vs Chavez was a masterful performance is first one to my mind, Sweet P had several amazing ones..
Meldrick Taylor vs Buddy McGirt
Hopkins vs Trinidad
Duran vs Barkley, not that it was anywhere close to a dominating performance but consider all things it was a GREAT win for Duran.

[brucelee]

Mosley vs De la hoya. Mosley was masterful with his jabs.

[THE THIRD MAN]

Ali V Foreman...Ali was given no chance by the majority of Boxing scribes

PBF V DLH....PBF comes from 130lb to 154lb to beat a seasoned DLH who had been fighting at 147 and over for the past 10 years, it was a great effort.

Robinson V Maxim for Light Heavy title in 1952... Only the heat beats Sugar Ray!

Leonard V Hagler...after long lay off Leonard beats long reigning Middleweight champ, controversy or not this was a mighty effort.

Corrales V Castillo....Corrales is almost out on his feet after two big knockdowns and who would have blamed the ref if he had of stopped it, then he gets up and knocks out Castillo in the very same round!

[FBEAR]

Wilfred Benitez over Antonio Cervantes at age 17 to take the Junior Welterweight title. Amazing skills shown by Benitez. Cervantes finishes strong but it wasn't enough.

Eusebio Pedroza vs Patrick Ford. This is my honorable mention which is against the rules so you can ignore it.

[ChuckNorris]

Ali v Foreman

I would have to agree with you... for a guy past his prime to come out a beat a seemingly unbeatable fighter in his prime.