Thread: The Best Fights

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

There has been a real paradigm shift and I hate being so negative. I just find it hard to ignore things like facts. I'm just not sure on the amount of empirical data needed. More disturbing for me is the buying of it. Enablers. How can this talent today at 147 be so F'ing dormant? I've never seen anything even remotely close as the Alvarez saga. And what was it 5 years for Manny/Floyd? This Haye thing. FFS did they pass out togas?

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

We got a lot of very good matches in the 80s, but I also remember everyone moaning that the champions were not fighting each other and we were missing out on so many matches. And that boxing was not like it was in the 70s....

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

There has been a real paradigm shift and I hate being so negative. I just find it hard to ignore things like facts. I'm just not sure on the amount of empirical data needed. More disturbing for me is the buying of it. Enablers. How can this talent today at 147 be so F'ing dormant? I've never seen anything even remotely close as the Alvarez saga. And what was it 5 years for Manny/Floyd? This Haye thing. FFS did they pass out togas?

I agree with this. I think my favourite Wladimir Klitschko deserves a lot of credit for the way he handled his title reign(this is obviously just fan mail for wladimir btw :S).. He unlike a lot of fellows did make a very big effort to unify the belts and take on all comers, even offering a 50/50 split to haye and ibragimov.. Maybe wladimir was lucky to be in the era he was and is/was exceptionally boring to watch but he did make a lot of effort to make the big fights happen ! well done wladimir!

I think every 4-6 years boxing has a stellar year.
A shame it takes so long.

2007 for me was a kick ass year. Yeah almost a decade ago. I am sure there has been a great year or two since.

HBO did a look back at 2007 great stuff.

It's totally natural and hindsight to make many of the classics we know. For me to say boxing is exact same for better or worse today as in 86' is to say I watch, enjoy or perceive the same. More time-less time, life happens and again the constant comparisons we make about big name days gone by. It's actually a good thing. Just enjoy a good fight regardless of status

Originally Posted by palmerq

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Boxing used to be about the best fighters facing each other,! now it's about the biggest pay day.
Yep boxing is a money business but we had great fights now it's rare fighters face each other in there prime.
We only have to look at Floyd v PAC so much hype and the fight turned out to be pretty boring.
We rarely get classic fights these days, the 80s gave us great match ups to bring back them days, boxing hay days😉

There has been a real paradigm shift and I hate being so negative. I just find it hard to ignore things like facts. I'm just not sure on the amount of empirical data needed. More disturbing for me is the buying of it. Enablers. How can this talent today at 147 be so F'ing dormant? I've never seen anything even remotely close as the Alvarez saga. And what was it 5 years for Manny/Floyd? This Haye thing. FFS did they pass out togas?

I agree with this. I think my favourite Wladimir Klitschko deserves a lot of credit for the way he handled his title reign(this is obviously just fan mail for wladimir btw :S).. He unlike a lot of fellows did make a very big effort to unify the belts and take on all comers, even offering a 50/50 split to haye and ibragimov.. Maybe wladimir was lucky to be in the era he was and is/was exceptionally boring to watch but he did make a lot of effort to make the big fights happen ! well done wladimir!

That's because wlad had no one to duck. They were all terrible opponents. Mayweather would have never ducked anybody either if his best opponent was somebody on the level of baldomir.

Don't get me wrong there have been some very good matches in ever era.
The 80s were the best I was in my twenty's probably the best time of my life, the fighters were brilliant, the match's boxing was on fire.
I could make a list of fighters and match ups it would be a long one.

"I was in my 20's, it was the best time of my life." That's why everyone says it was better in my day. I've been hearing fossils say that for 40 years.

It's more a case of we change and evolve. Boxing still has fantastic fighters, matches and events. If you substituted fighters from previous eras into this one nothing would be different.

Originally Posted by Fenster

"I was in my 20's, it was the best time of my life." That's why everyone says it was better in my day. I've been hearing fossils say that for 40 years.

It's more a case of we change and evolve. Boxing still has fantastic fighters, matches and events. If you substituted fighters from previous eras into this one nothing would be different.

You miserable fucker😂

I think you'll find you're the miserable funker

I still think boxing is terrific. It's not long ago it was rare to get big American fights on TV let alone from around the world. The access to see fights these days is fantastic.

Lets bring back the Teletext days.

Originally Posted by Fenster

I think you'll find you're the miserable funker

I still think boxing is terrific. It's not long ago it was rare to get big American fights on TV let alone from around the world. The access to see fights these days is fantastic.

Lets bring back the Teletext days.

Far from it mate I am a happy fossil mate, the 80s is regarded as a good era for boxing come on
Fenster you know I am right of course boxing is still fantastic, there are still some very good fighters out there.

When 2007 began i remember thinking WOW! What a way to start off.
It got better.
I don't look back and say it was great. The year was explosive..
Catchweights?? Naw man...
Haggling? Naw bros....
Check out this stellar year i am about to drop on Saddo.

This list is greater than I remember!!!!!!

BRB.......

2007-11-10 – Miguel Angel Cotto vs Shane Mosley

2007-11-03 – Joe Calzaghe vs Mikkel Kessler

2007-08-04 – Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez 2

2007-06-09 – Miguel Angel Cotto vs Zab Judah

2007-05-19 – Kelly Pavlik vs Edison Miranda

2007-02-17 – Michael Katsidis vs Earl Graham

2007-11-17 – Joan Guzman vs Humberto Soto

2007-07-07 – Nonito Donaire vs Vic Darchinyan

2007-09-29 – Kelly Pavlik vs Jermain Taylor

2007-03-17 – Juan Manuel Marquez vs Marco Antonio Barrera

2007-03-03 – Miguel Angel Cotto vs Oktay Urkal

2007-12-29 – Steve Cunningham vs Marco Huck

2007-11-10 – David Haye vs Jean Marc Mormeck


2007-11-03 – Juan Manuel Marquez vs Rocky Juarez

2007-10-13 – Sultan Ibragimov vs Evander Holyfield

2007-10-13 – Juan Diaz vs Julio Diaz

2007-09-29 – Joseph Agbeko vs Luis Alberto Perez

2007-09-01 – Ricardo Torres vs Kendall Holt 1

2007-08-04 – David Diaz vs Erik Morales

2007-07-21 – Jorge Linares vs Oscar Larios

2007-05-05 – Chad Dawson. Vs. Tomasz Adamek

Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Oscar De La Hoya

2007-04-28 – Juan Diaz vs Acelino Freitas

2007-04-14 – Ruslan Chagaev vs Nikolay Valuev

2007-04-14 – Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solis

2007-04-14 – Cristian Mijares vs Jorge Arce

2007-03-24 – Mikkel Kessler vs Librado Andrade

2007-03-03 – Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vazquez 1

2007-02-24 – Fernando Montiel vs Z Gorres

2007-02-10 – Shane Mosley vs Luis Collazo

2007-02-03 – Chad Dawson vs Tomasz Adamek

2007-12-08 – Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton

2007-10-19 – Lucian Bute vs Alejandro Berrio

2007-10-06 – Manny Pacquiao vs Marco Antonio Barrera 2

2007-07-21 – Bernard Hopkins vs Ronald Wright

2007-07-14 – Paul Williams vs Antonio Margarito

2007-07-07 – Wladimir Klitschko vs Lamon Brewster

2007-06-23 – Ricky Hatton vs Jose Luis Castillo

2007-06-16 – Andre Dirrell vs Curtis Stevens

2007-06-15 – Lucian Bute vs Sakio Bika

2007-05-26 – Steve Cunningham vs Krzysztof Wlodarczyk 2

2007-05-19 – Jermain Taylor vs Cory Spinks

2007-03-10 – Wladimir Klitschko vs Ray Austin

2007-01-20 – Ricky Hatton vs Juan Urango

The fights that i remember looking forward to. And then reminisced as a boxing fan that felt blessed. To see 2007!!!!!!!

Huh?
Was that a KICK. ASS. Year...!!!