I'm still pretty new to boxing, never really paid attention to it but recently I've started becoming interested in it because its a part of mma. So far what I've seen has been a couple ppv's, a couple amateur events by local boxing clubs and alot of HL's. What fights would you recommend as must see fights for someone just getting started?

theres heaps

Muhammad Ali X Joe Frazier 1 and 3

Nigel Benn X Gerald McLennan (ive got an Article to post about this fight)

Marco Antonio Barrera X Eric Morales 1,2 and 3 (unbelievable fights)

Arturo Gatti X Mickey Ward 1,2 and 3

Jeff Harding X Dennis Andries (best fight ive ever seen)

Marvin Hagler X Tommy Hearns

Riddick Bowe X Evander Holyfield trilogy

and download the Shavers vs Lyle fight I had the link to in "the Greatest Slugfest youve probly never seen" thread

any Ali fight was usually good

David Tua X Ike Ibeabuchi (most punches thrown in a HW fight ever)

ok I will think of more later

Mike tyson in his prime, pure specimen

Anything with Pacquaio is an epic.

ALI vs frazier amazing fight!

Gatti vs. Ward fights are classic...floyd maywaether jr. is unstoppable

Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant is fun to watch too

sugar ray vs hagler.

Duran x Hagler is good

Corrales x Castillo was a fucking exciting fight

Ali x Foreman GREAT

If you can come across and Sugar Ray Robinson fights he was in most peoples view p4p the best.

Leonard/Duran 1 - an absolute war.
Trinidad/Vargas - one of the best junior middleweight fights of all times.
Whitaker/Chavez - just to see a master boxing lesson from 1 all time great to another
Holyfield/Qawi 1 - Holyfield was just a monster at cruiserweight.

Some of my favs
Foreman/Lyle
J.C Chavez/Meldrick Taylor 1
Ali/Frazier 1
Tua/Ibeabuchi
Hearns/Hagler
Tyson/Douglas
Hearns/Duran
Tyson/Holyfield

Floyd Mayweather is a pleasure to watch as well

Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard 1
Corrales vs. Castillo 1
De la Hoya vs Vargas-very good considering Vargas was loaded on steroids
Hopkins vs. Trinidad
*Search Aaron Pryor archives and you will see a truly great underappreciated fighter

I have the Pryor/Arguello fights on tape.Pryor was like a tireless machine that just never slowed down & couldn't be hurt.
Arguello hit him with everything but the kitchen sink & he didn't move.

Varga vs Trinidad was a war
cant believe I didnt put it on the first list I made, Corrales Casamayor 1 was a great fight

Just to add a few more that haven't been mentioned yet:
Camacho/Rosario
McGirt/Whitaker 1 - Sweet Pea is just so good
Duran/Barkley - who thought The Blade would be the one getting dropped
Sanchez/Gomez - what a war

Gotta agree with with what alot of people have said already

gotti vs ward 1,2,3

and gotta love floyd mayweather jr.

Ah yes the Bowe/Holyfield trilogy.How did I forget that.
Havn't seen Shavers/Lyle.Is it on youtube???
I've seen Shavers/Norton,Shavers/Ellis & Shavers/Ali.Ali said it was the hardest he was ever hit.

you want to see the best ever Shavers fight?

Cheers DLing now.
heres Shavers/ Ken Norton
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man shavers had some serious power,

I should have warned you that Lyle/Shavers fight doesnt have sound, its still good though

ali and frazier
anything with tyson, not

rumble, rumble in the jungle haha i like watchin old foreman fights myself

I seen the Ali vs. Frazier fights and yeah I was amazed. So far I have really enjoyed Ali's fights the most, he seems to have matrixlike speed.

Barrera vs Morales
Holyfield vs Bowe
Hagler vs Hearns
Hearns vs Suger Ray
Gatti vs Robinson
Most of Tapia's fights
Most of Ricardo Lopez's fights
Mosley vs Oscar
BHop vs Trinidad

for entertainment. gatti vs anyone but especially against rodrigeuz, ivan robinson and of course ward. also try and get your hands on barrera vs morales 1. benn vs mclellan[though the end was tragic].

I'm with Sharkhunter on some of those.

Hagler vs Hearns
Hearns vs Suger Ray Leanard
but I'll add in
Hagler vs Sugar Ray Leanard

I was a kid and some of those fights first got me into boxing and combat sports in general.

Julio Cesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor
Jorge Paez vs about anyone (I used to love watching that guy)
Buster Douglas vs Mike Tyson

Watching Mike Tyson KO Bruno or Michael Spinks was exciting too. They built these guys up soo much and then they got destroyed. It was exciting at the time.

Marvin Hagler vs Tommy Hearns had the best few rounds of boxing (brawling) ever in my opinion. I think it was the first 3 rounds. You have to check that out if you haven't.

I want to see the Ike Ibeache (sp?) vs David Tua fight again too.

I think Im starting to learn a little bit from reading these threads. Ill be pwning people from my high horse in no time.

Damn, those are some good fights everyone listed.

I would add a couple of less profile fights that are complete wars.
Balbi vs. Dorin
Freitas vs. Barrios