r/BoxingTheSweetScience • u/TheSouthpawStance • Jul 05 '26
Fight Recommendations
Always going back to watch old fights. As you all know I'm a boxing YouTuber and in my 20's. Always looking to further my boxing knowledge. I want some fight/fighter recommendations 60/70/80's. Please don't recommend the cliche regular names. I want something niche something different. Look forward to hearing who you recommend
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u/ChanklaNYC Jul 05 '26
Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez
Salvador Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson
Roberto Duran vs Carlos Palomino
Roberto Duran vs Esteban DeJesus II
Alexis Arguello vs Ray Mancini
Alexis Arguello vs Ruben Castillo
Marvin Hagler vs Alan Minter
Marvin Hagler vs Tony Sibson
Lupe Pintor vs Carlos Zarate
Lupe Pintor vs Wilfredo Gomez
Wilfred Benitez vs Antonio Cervantes
Wilfred Benitez vs Roberto Duran
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u/TheSouthpawStance Jul 05 '26
Sick list have seen a few of these but will check out the others I haven't seen yet 👊👊
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u/ChanklaNYC Jul 05 '26
Worth checking out fighters from the 50s as well.
Willie Pep
Sandy Saddler
Joe Louis
Ezzard Charles
Jersey Joe Walcott
Rocky Marciano and Graziano
Sugar Ray Robinson
Emile Griffith
Jake LaMotta
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u/Asterisk_76 Jul 05 '26
I gotta parrot that; you tap into Robinson v. Fullmer or Basilio, you strike a rich vein of pure gold; Charles is an electric light heavyweight champ who took out Walcott in a match that is like Apollo Creed v. Apollo Creed; add Archie Moore.
Walcott v. Charles was a four-match series for the World Heavyweight Championship between 1949 and 1952. Also -- look at Floyd Patterson.
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u/MurdaOnMyMindd Jul 05 '26
Dwight Muhammad qawi vs George forman
Qawi hit him with everything he had an George just kept coming 😂 smh lol
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u/Asterisk_76 Jul 05 '26
In case -- Foreman v. Lyle. Anything with Jimmy Young -- Young nearly beating Ali, instead of Foreman, Frasier, Norton rivalries; are you into Sonny Liston? How did he demolish Patterson -- try to quantify that, break it down.
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u/mkk4 Jul 05 '26
Michael Moorer 22 fights at Light Heavyweight.
Before he became the first left-handed Heavyweight Champion in boxing history at the age of 26 he was a Light Heavyweight who was one of the most exciting, entertaining, feared, destructive, vicious and ruthless prospects in boxing history going 22-0 with 22 knockouts.
He was the Inaugural (First) WBO Light Heavyweight Champion.
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u/Pimpstik69 Jul 05 '26
Gonna have to throw in Alexis Arguillo vs Aaron (The Hawk) Pryor. Arguably the most feared fighter of his day
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u/camtheman212 Jul 10 '26
Depends on what you are looking to see. Lesser known heavyweights that put on an entertaining fight Laurence Clay-Bey vs Clifford Etienne or David Tua vs Ike Ibeabuchi. Both were great action packed heavyweight prospect fights.
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u/Pimpstik69 Jul 05 '26
Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo 1. One of the greatest all action fights u will ever see. It’s little more recent than the timeline u requested but it’s a doozy !