What is the greatest rivalry in boxing history?
Trilogies, grudges, one bite. Choose the pair that gave boxing its best nights.
1Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier
Three fights between 1971 and 1975, including the Fight of the Century and the Thrilla in Manila.
2Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran
Two welterweight classics in 1980 that ended with Duran turning away in the No Mas fight.
3Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton
Three close fights in the 1970s, the first of which left Ali with a broken jaw.
4Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe
Three heavyweight fights in the 1990s, including the round-ten war of 1992.
5Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jake LaMotta
Six meetings across the 1940s and 1950s, ending with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
6Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez
Four fights over eight years settled only by a single punch in the sixth round of the last one.
7Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward
Three brutal fights in 2002 and 2003 that produced two Rounds of the Year.
8Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling
Two heavyweight fights in 1936 and 1938 watched by the whole world.
9Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson
Two fights in 1996 and 1997, the second ended by a disqualification for biting.
10Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez
Four super-bantamweight fights between 2007 and 2010, all of them wars.
11Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman
One fight, in Kinshasa in 1974, that reset both men's careers.
12Carmen Basilio vs Sugar Ray Robinson
Two middleweight title fights in 1957 and 1958, split one each.
13Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano
Three fights from 2022 onward that headlined Madison Square Garden and a stadium card.
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