Favorite Fights of 2000-2010
by cylee1180 on Dec 31, 2011 3:50 PM EST
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Hello Everyone! I was just rewatching Cotto-Torres today and thought, damn! This is one of my favorite fights of the last 10 years. So what are yours?!
In no particular order:
1.) Cotto-Torres
Cotto gets strafed and keeps coming back with that left hook. His conditioning and his heart really came through in a way that the more talented Victor Ortiz didn't against Maidana. A real classic.
2.) Casamayor-Katsidis
LOOVVE this fight. Katsidis was such a warrior, and Casamayor just went through the meat grinder. I love the back and forth and I got to really like Katsidis after this fight. Too bad he's always been just shy of the world title, but I hope he gets it someday.
3.) Berto-Collazo
Still one of my favorite fights. I loved the back and forth, and thought Collazo really outworked him on the inside and eventually outboxed him on the outside with skill and timing.
4.) Pacquiao Morales 3
I thought this fight showed the evolution of Pacquiao into a two handed fighter, and his right hook and superior footwork were on display in this fight.
5.) Ward-Miranda
I've always been an Andre Ward fan since 2004 when I read an article about him on Men's Health magazine. Edison Miranda represented his first step up agst a named opponent and he fought through a cut via headbutt in the first round and dominated Miranda.
6.) Mosley-Margarito
Many people like to downplay Mosley's last dominant and great performance, but I'd say everyone and their mamas were betting against Mosley that night, and thought he'd go down Ali-Foreman/Balboa-Drago style that night, and he really shined. You can state all you want about the hand wraps and Margarito's "state of mind", but Margarito was really agst an older figher on the downside who hadn't had a great career victory in years, got beaten by Cotto in a close fight two years back, and was smaller. Margarito by all accounts should have steamrolled through Mosley, except Mosley, who was going through a divorce and a change of trainer at the time came strong with his new head coach Nazim Richardson and boxed beautifully, slowed down Margarito's momentum, and outslugged him without getting hit ("swim without getting wet"). Though Mosley usually doesn't get credit for this, he beat a better Margarito than Pacquiao fought and that Cotto rematched. He's also the only person in recent history to legitimately knockout Margarito.
I'll probably add more later. And of course I didn't become a hardcore boxing fan until about 2006 b/c I didn't grow up with cable. Have a nice day!
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Corrales Castillo
I could watch a million times
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer"
---- Muhammed Ali
I actually have still not watched that yet… I should…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Well, best round for sure.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV09IYeElHI
I forgot how fun it was to see Lopez knocked around and stumbling…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Corrales-Castillo
Morales-Barrera trilogy
Gatti-Ward trilogy
Vasquez-Marquez quadrilogy (if that’s a word)
Morales-Pacquaio trilogy (especially the 1st fight)
Pacquiao-Marquez 1 & 2
Trinidad-Vargas
Mosley-De la Hoya 1
Marquez-Diaz 1
Hopkins-Trinidad
Freitas-Barrios
Probably could name a ton more, but that’s off the top of my head.
Never saw trinidad vargas….
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Nice list, have to go back and watch a lot of these, here’s some of my favourite picks of 2000-2010 in no particular order-
Morales – Barrera I – probably one of my all time favorite fights it’s just boxing at its most exciting.
Khan – Maidana – Great fight, Khan shows some blinding hand speed and his wobbly leg dance after getting clocked by Maidana makes me laugh every time.
Pacquiao – Marquez I – best of the trilogy in my opinion, Marquez comes back from 3 knockdowns at beginning to outbox Pacquiao for the rest of the fight.
Monshipour – Sithchatchawal – just…..wow
Wonjongkam – Tunacao – the action of a full length fight compressed into a single round.
Calzaghe – Kessler – Calzaghe just gives a masterclass in boxing.
Abraham – Miranda I – brutal is the best way to describe it.
Morales – Pacquiao I – fast paced but more importantly the last time Pacquiao lost, something i don’t think we’ll be seeing happen again anytime soon.
"I'm not God, but I am something similar."
—Roberto Duran
i thought miranda shoulda won if it werent for the 7 point deductions and it being in germany…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
No love yet for Toney vs Jirov?
How could that one not at least make the top ten?
Also gotta have
Corrales vs. Castillo
Morales vs Barrera I
Vasquez vs Marquez III
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
need to see that…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Casamayor-JM Marquez
JuanMa Lopez – Rafael Marquez
"Effort without Efficiency is nonsense.." -rk mag
penalosa also gave a helluva fight…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Freitas vs.Barrios
Corrales vs. Castillo
Monshipour vs. Sithchatchawal
Akira Yaegashi vs. Pornsawan "Terminator" Porpramook
Makoto Fuchigami vs. Koji Sato
Gatti vs. Ward —first
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Corrales Freitas
Talk about stalk stun and kill. He took Acelinos heart and O.
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer"
---- Muhammed Ali
Yaegashi vs Porpromook got named FOTY by Rafael, to my surprise.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
Hmm. Maybe he copied mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Lopez-Mtagwa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV09IYeElHI
cotto mosley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_RmFzqX38&feature=related
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Sadist
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
bhop pavlik
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Therevare probably a ton of fights we’ve forgotten, but some memorable ones,
Barerra Morales 1 The best of the three, in my opinion.
Gatti Ward 1
Barerra Hamed (Just the best feeling ever seeing Hamed made to look shite).
Chico Castillo
De la Hoya Vargas (Vargas was made to pay for the insults in there)
Can’t think of any heavy weights, perhaps Lewis Klitschko?.
Calzaghe Lacy was similar to Bhop Pavlik, but they weren’t really fights in the end, more like beat downs or mis matches.
Calzaghe-Lacy was completely one sided from start to finish, dont think Lacy was ever the same afterwards.
"I'm not God, but I am something similar."
—Roberto Duran
What was pre-Calzaghe Lacy like?
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Not all that much. He had power but he telegrahed his hook.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Actuall he was the first guy to drop RR. I was going to mention that but forgot RR's name.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Reid had a real good chin too, making the manner of his (Lacy’s) win against Reid all the more impressive. I reckon Lacy won some of his fights with a little help from intimidation.
Calzaghe was impossible to intimidate and he never lost his cool. Lacy was fucked from the start.
Marquez/Vasquez trilogy (not the 4th)
Pascal/Froch
Corrales/Castillo
Pac/Cotto
JMM/Diaz
Ward/Augustus
DLH/Trinidad
Moore/Macklin
Probably forgetting tons.
by Shitali Klitschko on Jan 1, 2012 2:57 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Earl - Katsidis
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Earl-Katisidis was a great fight. Katsidis looks nothing like he did in that fight anymore. Katsidis is totally shopworn now compared to that Katsidis who looked so sharp and fast.
by 36_chambers_ofdeatH on Jan 1, 2012 8:27 PM EST up reply actions
Was Lennox Tyson, or Toney Holyfield big fights?
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Lewis-Tyson was huge. Around 1.8 million ppv buys and until mayweather- de la hoya it held the record for most ppv income. Holyfield-Tyson II had more buys but not quite as much money because it was priced slightly cheaper.
Toney-Holyfield was definitely not huge.
by Kory Kitchen on Jan 1, 2012 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
Cotto/Judah, highly underrated fight...
and if you want a closet classic, it doesn’t get much better than the three rounds of Elvir Muriqi vs. Sam Ahmad…
Still searching for an alive Dan Tucker.
Elvir Muriqi vs. Sam Ahmad is an all-time closet classic. It was unreal.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Top 3 are definitely Vazquez-Marquez III, Corrales-Castillo I and Vazquez-Marquez II. I haven’t really tried putting them in order too much after that. Two that haven’t been mentioned, both of which might make my list, are the Adamek-Briggs fights, which were just insane.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
I saw one of those Adamek-Briggs fights live in Chicago on the Valuev/Barrett undercard,
and it was terrific. Good call.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
Forgot about Adamek/Briggs, good one.
by Shitali Klitschko on Jan 6, 2012 1:43 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Ortiz-Maidana.
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Early warning on head case situation
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
We will soon see
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Luna vs. Luna. As I recall, it was 4 rounds of havoc and mayhem.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
It was Luny
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Great thread, cylee
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Come on Ippo, you must have ONE favorite fight from the last decade? Even if it was the first half that you forgot about! I mean, I’m hailing Collazo Berto, and most pple wouldn’t call that a classic but i do!
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
good job catching most my list. I’m sure more will come but i was suprised to see these 3 not mentioned
pembleton v sheika I
casamayor v chico corrales I was fun to watch while it lasted
mayweather v corrales was a terrible beatdown, but it was a fun beatdown to watch
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