Can you think of any "Event" fighters?

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Toward the end of Iron Mike Tyson’s career, I heard it said that he could still fill an arena even if he fought a Kangaroo. As I recall, when he fought “The Clones Colossus,” Kevin McBride, in his last fight on June 6, 2005 at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., the arena was packed to the rafters. Mike skills had deteriorated considerably and he was coming off a stunning KO loss to Danny Williams a year earlier. In fact, Mike fought once a year between 2001 and 2005 and each fight was took on major event status. Heck, even his 2006 exhibition with Corey “T-Rex” Sanders in Youngstown, Ohio on the ill-conceived Mike Tyson World Tour was looked upon with great interest and was a pay-per-view event.

Oscar De La Hoya was a classic "event type" fighter. WHen he fought, it was a big event that virtually transcended boxing. It was about ultra hype ad nauseam and included his adoring female fans, the melodramatic 24/7 reality series, the so-called “bad blood” between Freddie Roach and Oscar as a left over from the Mayweather fight. It was also about the ethnic factor, teaser trailer videos, his “improving” relationship with his father, the false "drama" of training in Big Bear with his family nearby, his East LA background; the Olmpic Gold Medal, Golden Boy Promotions, Ring Magazine, etc, etc. And like Tyson, fighting the “Golden Boy” ensured that his opponents will walk away with some real gold. In short, it was all about business with the fight sometimes taking on a peripheral persona.

With Tyson history and Oscar likley gone, can you think of any other such fighters?