Must watch heavyweight bouts?

[Dr. Acula]

So I'm sitting here watching The Rumble in the Jungle and damn I wish the heavyweight division was still this fun to watch. Sad what happened to it.

Anyways just looking for the must watch matches in history and what I should add to my playlist here. Drop some recommendations.

 

[patscorpio]

id check the 90s heavyweight fights which is one of the GOAT decades for that division

holyfield vs bowe trilogy




tyson vs ruddock 1 & 2



tua vs ibeabuchi


lewis vs mercer


bowe vs golota 1 & 2



morrison vs ruddock


morrison vs hipp


mercer vs cooper


cooper vs moorer


holyfield vs cooper


foreman vs stewart


thats good to start with

 

[BlackAchilles]

Two fights that aren't "good" fights but IMO are great youtube viewing:

Vs Randall "Tex" Cobb: Tex showed the toughest chin I've ever seen, Holmes absolutely batters him for 15 rounds but couldn't knock him out. It was so brutal Howard Cosell stopped calling fights after that one.

Vs. Gerry c00ney: Cac was hyped up to a ridiculous level, by the media, and Larry decided to have fun and fight as more of a counter puncher, like a young Orca tossing a seal around before devouring it. What really makes it entertaining is c00ney's Puerto Rican corner man, their dialogue in between rounds is

 

[patscorpio]

Two fights that aren't "good" fights but IMO are great youtube viewing:

Vs Randall "Tex" Cobb: Tex showed the toughest chin I've ever seen, Holmes absolutely batters him for 15 rounds but couldn't knock him out. It was so brutal Howard Cosell stopped calling fights after that one.

Vs. Gerry c00ney: Cac was hyped up to a ridiculous level, by the media, and Larry decided to have fun and fight as more of a counter puncher, like a young Orca tossing a seal around before devouring it. What really makes it entertaining is c00ney's Puerto Rican corner man, their dialogue in between rounds is

Cobb at his best was decent...I mean he outlasted and stopped shavers..gave Ken Norton, michael dokes, and buster Douglas all that they could handle without getting dropped. The cocaine and liquor eventually got to him though


c00ney is a big part of the cleanup that happened to the 60s-70s star heavies in the early 80s who were aging..and did it violently...that's what got him his hype...mentally wasn't strong though

 

[GzUp]

Wlad vs Sam peters
James toney vs Holyfield

 

[BigBrown21]

Tua vs Ibeabuchi

That was legit one of the best HW fights I have ever seen. I think either one of them would have fukked up these nikkas AJ and Wilder.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Keep these coming, gonna check any that I missed, post some older ones too. Would be interesting to hear everybody's top 10 heavyweight fights of all time 1 day too.

 

[Take It In Blood]

links or ban

 

[patscorpio]

Tua vs Ibeabuchi

That was legit one of the best HW fights I have ever seen. I think either one of them would have fukked up these nikkas AJ and Wilder.

Tua vs Ibeabuchi is an anomaly..usually when you see heavies fight like they did, you see damage, knockdowns, maybe even a KO...they didn't even show they were hurt ..shyt I wished Femi vs Parker could have been like that

 

[patscorpio]

add the video links to my choices

 

[CoryMack]

Bowe Holyfield trilogy has already been said. Especially that first fight, and listen to it with the sound up high.

Holyfield Tyson I is a must see. If you weren’t around you couldn’t understand the anticipation around this fight. Holyfield was a 25-1 underdog. I wonder if all the prefight press conferences with Tyson’s big mouth friend running his fat lips are on YouTube anywhere. Then Holyfield went to work that night and the Mighty South rose once more in triumph over them east coast punks. Then he did it again later that year just so them nikkas would be certain that it wasn’t no fluke.

 

[patscorpio]

of course ive sung the praises of this fight on many occasions - IMO the best heavyweight fight of the 2000s and the last classic HW title fight until femi-klitschko


lamon had some tear ups in his reign..i fukked with him more than i did ruiz or byrd

 

[staticshock]

 

[NormanConnors]

Bowe Holyfield trilogy has already been said. Especially that first fight, and listen to it with the sound up high.

Holyfield Tyson I is a must see. If you weren’t around you couldn’t understand the anticipation around this fight. Holyfield was a 25-1 underdog. I wonder if all the prefight press conferences with Tyson’s big mouth friend running his fat lips are on YouTube anywhere. Then Holyfield went to work that night and the Mighty South rose once more in triumph over them east coast punks. Then he did it again later that year just so them nikkas would be certain that it wasn’t no fluke.[/QUOTE

Yeah Holyfield went to work with his head in both fights. If Tyson could've stayed composed in the 2nd fight we could've had another classic because he got angry and was given Holyfield some work/had him stunned.

 

[CoryMack]

If Tyson could've stayed composed

But he didn’t.

We don’t have to speculate, we know what happened. The gentleman from the South was tougher. Two times.