BOXING: THE BEST OF THE 1980s

BOXING: THE BEST OF THE 1980s (1992, Worldwide, $14.98 each) The subtitle, ''The Greatest Fighters of the 1980s,'' is the giveaway: This two-cassette boxing package ought to be called Some Pretty Bad Fights of Some Very Good Fighters. It features snippets of 14 mostly insignificant bouts of 12 major fighters of the decade, notably Roberto Duran, George Foreman, and Aaron Pryor-past their primes and ostensibly on the comeback trail. The matches, all foregone conclusions anyway, unfold mostly uncontested, with the exception of an exciting Reynaldo Snipes-Johnny Duplooy slugfest and the Antonio Esparragoza-Stevie Cruz featherweight championship. Despite good video quality, even die-hard boxing junkies would have to be a bit punchy to turn to this compilation of bogus bouts to catch up on what they may have missed over the decade. C- -Bruce Forer