The greatest EPIC fights that lived up to the bill...

[Master]

I'm not talking about surprise classics like Gatti vs. Ward, but about fights that were billed to be all that and then delivered on the epic of the epic. In order, my collection:

1. Ali vs Frazier 1

2. Hearns vs. Hagler

3. DLH vs Trinidad

4. Bowe vs. Holyfield 1

5. Tyson vs. Holyfield 1

6. Mosely vs. DLH 1

7. Chavez Sr. vs Taylor 1

8. Jones vs Tarver 1

9. Norton vs. Holmes 1

10. Benn vs. Eubank 1

What are yours?

Trinidad-DLH did NOT live up to its billing, IMO. It was unsatisfying for both camps.
Trinidad-Vargas, on the other hand, was all it was cracked up to be and more.

I must say, though... Leonard-Hearns-I needs to be in that list somewhere near the top.

Agreed Tito v ODH was awful, Vargas v Tito was brilliant and both were warriors.

Morales v barrera 1 was truly epic

[ykdadamaja]

I'm not talking about surprise classics like Gatti vs. Ward, but about fights that were billed to be all that and then delivered on the epic of the epic. In order, my collection:

1. Ali vs Frazier 1

2. Hearns vs. Hagler

3. DLH vs Trinidad

4. Bowe vs. Holyfield 1

5. Tyson vs. Holyfield 1

6. Mosely vs. DLH 1

7. Chavez Sr. vs Taylor 1

8. Jones vs Tarver 1

9. Norton vs. Holmes 1

10. Benn vs. Eubank 1

What are yours?

Trinidad-DLH did NOT live up to its billing, IMO. It was unsatisfying for both camps.
Trinidad-Vargas, on the other hand, was all it was cracked up to be and more.

I must say, though... Leonard-Hearns-I needs to be in that list somewhere near the top.

Agreed Tito v ODH was awful, Vargas v Tito was brilliant and both were warriors.

Morales v barrera 1 was truly epic

Tito/ODH appeared unsatisfying because of the robbery and end result and the controversy that surrounded it. If it had gone to plan and ODH got the win, it would have been a bit more memorable.

ODH put on a clinic and it was a shame he was robbed in such an open display of dishonesty, corruption and meanness on behalf of the judges and boxing personnel surrounding the fight that night.

Two boxing robberies will always stick out in my mind as the worst of the worst: ODH vs. Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. vs Park Si Hun in the 88 Olympics. Pacman vs. Bradley comes in with an honorable mention.

[Sleepwalker]

De La Hoya vs Ike Quartey.