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If you could be at any boxing event in history, which fight would you select?
For me, it would be Louis vs Schmeling rematch given the global social implications involved.
What say you? :confused::confused:
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Ali v Frazier 1 because it was an event. 2 great undefeated heavyweight champions fighting one another and the world watching.
My second would be Ali v Foreman in Zaire.
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I always thought Dempsey vs Tunney would have been cool. Either one. The problem is that if you weren’t up front, you wouldn’t have been able to see anything.
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The Thrilla in Manilla is a good candidate for me.
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Hagler-Hearns for me. Second place is Ali-Frazier 1. Third place is Holyfield-Tyson 1. Fourth place is Hopkins-Trinidad. Fifth place is Sweet Pea-JCC.
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Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
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Spicoli
Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
Good one!!!
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mikeeod
Hagler-Hearns for me. Second place is Ali-Frazier 1. Third place is Holyfield-Tyson 1. Fourth place is Hopkins-Trinidad. Fifth place is Sweet Pea-JCC.
Hagler-Hearns would be a good one for me also. Only problem is it was over too quickly. Ali-Frazier I, of course. The Thrilla I would've liked just a tad more, though.
After that, I'd say Duran-Leonard I, Leonard-Hearns I..... and since you mentioned Tito I'll go the other way and say I would've killed to be in Trinidad-Vargas. ;D
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holmcall
For me, it would be Louis vs Schmeling rematch given the global social implications involved.
What say you? :confused::confused:
The famous quote - in your sig - is from the late promoter Mickey Duff.
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For me ringside at Hamed v Marco Barrera, to watch Hamed's in the ring pre fight bullshit about islam and then watch him get twatted would have been great.
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Dark Lord Al
For me ringside at Hamed v Marco Barrera, to watch Hamed's in the ring pre fight bullshit about islam and then watch him get twatted would have been great.
Nice to see its all about the boxing for you. 😉
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Beanz
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Dark Lord Al
For me ringside at Hamed v Marco Barrera, to watch Hamed's in the ring pre fight bullshit about islam and then watch him get twatted would have been great.
Nice to see its all about the boxing for you. ������
Yes that's the bout I would have liked to be ringside the most.
Great performance from the underdog beating an unbeaten champion.
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Ringside at either Ali/Foreman or Ali/Liston.
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Primo Carnera
Ringside at either Ali/Foreman or Ali/Liston.
Ali v Liston would be my 3rd choice.
Would not mind being there when Jack Johnson beat up Jeffries provided i would not get killed.
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Spicoli
Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
That was the first to cross my mind, but I settled on Greb vs Mickey Walker.
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Ali Foreman. Ali Frazier One was the biggest heavyweight event of that era but Ali beating Foreman in an exotic location edges it for me.
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Any fight that took place in Germany in the mid 1930s, so I could kill that Hitler character. Early 80s would be good too, Id invest in Microsoft.
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p4pking
Any fight that took place in Germany in the mid 1930s, so I could kill that Hitler character. Early 80s would be good too, Id invest in Microsoft.
In that case Tyson v Douglas to lay that 40-1 bet.
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Spicoli
Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
That was the first to cross my mind, but I settled on Greb vs Mickey Walker.
Another great one left only to benefit fans through reporter and historian accounts of the time. It's a shame really, what we take for granted as far as fight availability. We're spoiled ;D. I read a few years ago there was known to be a reel set of this one. Have to imagine someone somewhere was sitting on random footage of Greb in action, though anything now has to be of quality so badly degraded it's unrecognizable. If it hasn't dissolved completely. By all accounts Greb v Walker was an all time classic.
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Master
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p4pking
Any fight that took place in Germany in the mid 1930s, so I could kill that Hitler character. Early 80s would be good too, Id invest in Microsoft.
In that case Tyson v Douglas to lay that 40-1 bet.
??? Never thought of that aspect.
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Golovkin vs Brandon Adams
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p4pking
Any fight that took place in Germany in the mid 1930s, so I could kill that Hitler character. Early 80s would be good too, Id invest in Microsoft.
Would you really invest money in this bunch of freaks?
https://daypic.ru/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/27.jpg
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I also may choose Sullivan vs Corbett. I’m wondering how bad that fight looked compared to now
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Keep in mind then youd have to live around the turn of the 20th century. Dentistry was real bad in those days, and the women werent nearly as attractive.
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Keep in mind then youd have to live around the turn of the 20th century. Dentistry was real bad in those days, and the women werent nearly as attractive.
I assumed we were talking about having a time machine
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If We had a time machine, watching a fight wouldnt exactly be on the radar at all would it. Im just trawlawlin, dont mind me.
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Ali V Frazier 1 (MSG 1971)
Rumble in the Jungle
Thriller in Manila
Leonard v Duran 1
Hagler V Hearns
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Randy Turpin v Sugar Ray Robinson. 1951. What an upset. Earls Court.
Frazier v Ali 1. Joe at his best.
Cooper v Ali. Its London its 1963.
Hatton v Tszyu.
Leonard v Hearns. Ceasars Palace.
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Sam McVey v Joe Jeannette - Paris 1909
49 round war and regarded as the best and most brutal fight in history.
They used balloons filled with oxygen to revive the fighters between rounds after dragging them back to their stools.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...story,amp.html
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Monzon vs Valdez 2. King Carlos was the greatest fighter of my 64 years of living.
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Yup rumble in the jungle I watch it twice a year
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Guess Ill have to pick rumble in the jungle, so I could find and mutilate the retard that just posted.
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Guess Ill have to pick rumble in the jungle, so I could find and mutilate the retard that just posted.
I pray for the day P4gay comes at me, I’ll even give him two free shots before I rip his head off and shove it up his yippykayoyayee
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Gotta agree with the Greb vs Tunney or the Sullivan vs Corbett sentiment. I would definitely have to choose a fight that never made it to film.
Sullivan vs Kilrain deserves a mention.
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Primo Carnera
Ringside at either Ali/Foreman or Ali/Liston.
Me too.
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A young Duran vs Buchanan
Any of the later fights of Jack Johnson, crowds were massive
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Thought about it for a while and I have to say Holmes v Cooney. Just to see how the crowd and hype turned them into savage mobs. Had to be a great telling point in American history! Race, culture, class and society all mashed up in one fight.
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Spicoli
Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
My thoughts went to Greb too.
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Andre
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Spicoli
Maybe Harry Greb w.15 Gene Tunney at Madison Square garden. Hey no one has ever seen him fight, might as well see him lay a purported beating on the future hvy weight champ.
My thoughts went to Greb too.
One of the few virtually unknown that has always ranked one of the best. I remember when I first came on here and Mick having a go every time I brought Greb up ;D. 'only believe what we can see with our own eyes'..hey maybe we didn't land on the moon after all ;D
