Top 5 Fights That Were The Most Fun To Watch As They Happened?

[Knockout_LR_Freshmart]

What were some of your favorite experiences as a spectator for a fight?

Doesn’t even have to be just “amazing” fights could even be ones you remember watching and getting amped by the tense atmosphere and the yet-to-be known outcome

1. Hunt vs. Bigfoot
2. Usman vs. Covington
3. Canelo vs. GGG 1
4. Mayweather vs. Maidana 1
5. Spence vs. Porter/Fury vs. Wilder 3

 

[shroommon]

no particular order

1. AJ vs Ruiz 1 : I remember I had fight party and was hyping up AJ Coming to America .. he got that first knockdown and was like its time boys .. we all know how that first fight concluded

2. Wilder - Fury Trilogy : All 3 fights were epic "Big Drama Show"

3. "Gamebred" Masvidal vs Ben Askren : I wanted Askren to get KO'd .. he has a white privilege air about him and I wanted Masvidal to put him in his place .. Let's just say I popped off hard af when that knee connected to his face

Honorable Mention. Canelo vs GGG 1 : This fight got me back into boxing . I'm prob one of the few people who thinks Canelo won both fights

4. Naoya Inoue and the WBSS - Payano, Rodriguez, Donaire : First time getting put on to The Monster . He KO'd the first 2 in devastating fashion and fought epic battle with Donaire after getting his face broke in the 2nd-3rd round . Felt like I was watching a future legend in the making

5. Ryan Garcia vs Duno, Fonseca, Luke Campbell : yeah I know its not popular to side with Ryan Garcia these days but I'd be lying if I said the kid doesn't bring some excitement . He a glass cannon , defense is sloppy , but he can slug . He was suppose to have problems vs Duno and Fonseca and he KO'd them both 1st round . I watched them KO highlights numerous times . He got dropped by Luke Campbell and came back with that warrior energy and dropped Luke back with a body shot .. The kid is hype to watch . Hopefully he stop bullshytting around and give us epic fights with Haney and Tank

 

[MJ Truth]

If I can mix the sports, just from personal memory off the top, no order…

Mayweather/Judah
Sonnen/Silva
Tyson/Lennox
Bones Jones/Cormier II
Broner/Paulie

 

[patscorpio]

most fun to watch...thats a hard one..this will be just 5 that come to mind..im sure there will be more if i think harder lol

1. my first mma card i saw live in 2011...strikeforce in nj featuring fedor vs bigfoot...my boy was a huge fedor fan and fedor never fought on the east coast before so he wanted to go and see it live...it was an entertaining night...fedor hadnt lost in almost 10 years or some shyt like that...but he got his ass beat that night lol..my boy was about the result

2. bradley vs provodnikov - possibly the most unexpected fight i ever thought would be classic/ ATG status...i wasnt a fan of bradley at all and prov was a tough limited brawler..beginning of that year - 2013 - was struggle with cancellations and shyt...this was the main event of a doubleheader..i was just hungry for some boxing...the opener jessie vargas vs wale omotoso was surprisingly good but the main event ..an exercise in sheer brutality..bradley was getting p4p looks and was nearly taken out numerous times by a guy coming up in weight and was from the ESPN circuit

3. castillo vs corrales 1...had me, my father, and uncle jumping up and down in the living room

4, monster vs donaire - DAZN was really doing it in 2019..culminating with this masterpiece..i woke up at 5 something the morn to watch the card and was slightly late to work..i didnt care..2 clean cut fighters playing high speed violent chess in the ring.. ..me and @LauderdaleBoss were texting during it and just being at the greatness we were watching..made up for the lackluster canelo vs kovalev card that aired 5 days earlier on dazn

5.tyson vs holyfield 2 - not for the fight per se but the fukkery after the bite and fall out...shyt was front page news for like weeks

 

[nasty]

too many to name but off top

1. rousey vs holm - bet on Holm and predicted the KO but to see it actually happening was a sight to behold at the time
2. nick diaz vs paul daley
3. hendo vs shogun
4. gaethje vs poirier
5. brock vs carwin

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

1. AJ vs Wlad. shyt was dope because earlier that day me and my pops met Danny Garcia. Grabbed some fried chicken afterwards and saw an epic heavyweight scrap. My pops is bad luck for Wlad cuz for some reason any time he watches a fight with dude in it he loses. The Sanders fight comes to mind.

2. Lewis vs Vitali
3. Inoue vs Donaire
4. Jrock vs Mall Charlo
5. Toney vs Jirov

Felt like I was there in the arena for them fights, if you would have told me I'm at home in my living room, I'd say cap. All those bouts were super intense.

 

[malbaker86]

1. Broner vs Maidana

2. Tyson Holyfield 2

3. Canelo vs GGG 1

4. Thurman vs Porter

5. AJ vs Vlad

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Holyfield/Tyson 1: Wild that I was a kid and remember everything about this night vividly. Every second if that fight felt like anything could happen.

Fury/Wilder 3 - AJ/Wlad: Insane spectacle.

DLH/Mosley - To this day I'm amazed neither man hit the canvas in that fight.

Lewis/Vitali - Had all the makings of a McCall/Rahman upset but then Lewis fought his way back in. Every single landed punch felt like it should end the fight. I still remember that uppercut LL landed late and the utter disbelief that Vitali didn't even take a knee from it.

Nas/Kelley - Top to bottom I don't think there's ever been a more entertaining fight. That fight was at 11 from the bell ringing.

 

[desjardins]

Prince Naseem vs MAB was a big one for me

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

4, monster vs donaire - DAZN was really doing it in 2019..culminating with this masterpiece..i woke up at 5 something the morn to watch the card and was slightly late to work..i didnt care..2 clean cut fighters playing high speed violent chess in the ring.. ..me and @LauderdaleBoss were texting during it and just being

That's the most recent one i can recall.

I was texting back and forth with my boy who lives in Tokyo. He got lazy and decided to watch at home. I've never let him live it down since.

Fight was a high calibre shootout.

 

[Reggie]

Gatti Ward 1 Corrales Castillo 1 Floyd vs Diego cause many thought Floyd would lose but he put on what i still think is his magnum opus performance in the ring. Lewis vs Vitali cause you could see a changing of the guard coming and i still say that is why Lennox retired cause he knew he would lose a rematch. Barrera and Hamed makes my list too for the clinic Marco put on in dominating him the whole fight.

 

[NZA]

mayweather vs augustus
-seeing floyd deal with the drunken master was like some kind of kung fu movie come to life

mayweather vs gatti
-a masterpiece of violence

toney vs jirov
-put a black and white filter over it; it looked like a fight from the 1950s

kirkland vs tapia
-i dont even know how to describe this

benavidez vs medina
-he fukking knocked porky out with shoeshine punches

...to be honest, i could have chosen more floyd fights but i decided to mix it up

 

[dish lowry]

foreman vs michael moorer

james toney vs iran barkley

pernell whitaker, when he was dodging all of oscar dela faq's punches...