Boxing is a sport blessed with a rich and long history, full of fights that have become legendary sporting spectacles. But what makes a boxing fight a classic? It often has to be action packed, filled with back and forth exchanges between two furious rivals, each hungry for a victory and driven by the eye of the tiger.
Classic fights such as Marvin Hagler vs. Tommy Hearns, Alexis Arguello vs. Aaron Pryor, Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Erik Morales, and Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo have been the epitomes of what defines a toe-to-toe exchange. For a sport that is often referred to as the “sweet science,” it is ironic that at its best, boxing ceases to be sweet, and all notions of science is thrown right out of the window in exchange for pure faith in wanton exchanges of fisticuffs.