"THE SUPERFIGHT"

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10-16-2006, 07:03 AM
PRIDE OF BOSTON

"THE SUPERFIGHT"

I bought a DVD tonight that I never knew existed... Maybe some of you have... But I... as much as I know boxing was in the dark... I will type what is inscribed on the back of the DVD

WHO WAS THE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIME

In the late 1960's a miami boxing promoter, who had a successful radio series of fantasy boxing bouts between champs of years past fed statistics into a computer witch predicted a "winner"! Based apon the popularity Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali filmed a 15 round bout.

On January 20th the "fight of the Century" Ali-vs-Marciano was shown ONE TIME in 1500 theaters across the United states and Europe and was shown once in 1970 on "wild world of sports" Since, all prints of the fight have been destroyed, accept for one that was given to the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. THE FIGHT HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE.

Marciano, the only heavyweight Chanmp to ever retire undeafeated, was 45 in 1969. Ali was 27. He was also undefeated. They agreed to settle, once and for all, who was the greatest.

I loved it!! Great documentary on the special features
10-16-2006, 07:21 AM
Slacker

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

It actually shows the actual bout that they had staged?
if it does
Does it end how the computer said?
If i remember correctly it was like Marciano KOs Ali in the 13th round or something.
10-16-2006, 07:28 AM
SigmaMu

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

I thought I heard this before but I have never seen the footage or read anything else on the matter. Arent they doing this today with computer games? Was not this the reason Rocky Balbao came out of retirement because a study/computer game resulted in favor of Rocky to beat Mason 'The Line' Dixon.?

I also read somewhere, that Marciano did not retire undefeated. I swore I thought he did but some one told me he had not and others were saying the same thing. I guess I should be more like majesty and say: 'Prove it" :) LOL

Can you tell us more about this video?
Like title, producer, genre and what ever else, so we can look for it on line. The more info, the better. ;)
10-16-2006, 07:32 AM
Slacker

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

I just looked it up. It has some info about it.

Here's the link.

http://www.amazon.com/Superfight-Mar.../dp/B000A7DVO0
10-16-2006, 07:36 AM
SigmaMu

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Good looking out Slacker.

Have a CC on me :)
10-16-2006, 07:38 AM
Slacker

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Thanks, I need a couple more posts toward the CC-ness. I'm working on it though 8).
10-16-2006, 11:15 AM
ICB

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

[youtube=425,350]qIBAnzlGLTg[/youtube]

this is clip of it
10-16-2006, 11:31 AM
stavros693000

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Quote:

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

[youtube=425,350]qIBAnzlGLTg[/youtube]

this is clip of it

hey ice ,do you think that would be the outcome in the real fight imo ali would have whooped rockys ass
10-16-2006, 11:33 AM
ICB

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Quote:

Originally Posted by stavros693000

Quote:

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

[youtube=425,350]qIBAnzlGLTg[/youtube]

this is clip of it

hey ice ,do you think that would be the outcome in the real fight imo ali would have whooped rockys a**

i dont know mate ali is so much quicker but rocky hits like a rock its speed vs power but ali wouldnt be able to do that rope a dope junk vs him
10-16-2006, 11:43 AM
stavros693000

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

yeah true forman was a dope ,would be awsome fight but i cant see the ali that beat liston 1 losing
10-16-2006, 11:45 AM
ICB

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Quote:

Originally Posted by stavros693000

yeah true forman was a dope ,would be awsome fight but i cant see the ali that beat liston 1 losing

i remember fraizer saying something like if ali done rope a dope vs rocky he would break his arms or foremans or something i cant quite remember
10-16-2006, 12:01 PM
stavros693000

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

the real fight would go to the score cards for sure if ali didnt getkoed theres no way in hell ali would ko marciano ,hes hart was twice as big as holyfeilds he wouldnt allow the thought of defeat to enter his mind...not much technique but a tone of determination!!ali by ud
10-16-2006, 01:54 PM
TyBuff

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

cc for the clip ICE COLD!! I heard that while they were filming this Rock was wearing a hair piece and Ali keeped knocking it off, so Rock got tired of it and belted Ali real good to the body to send a message. I guess Ali stopped after that.
10-16-2006, 01:59 PM
ICB

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Quote:

Originally Posted by TyBuff

cc for the clip ICE COLD!! I heard that while they were filming this Rock was wearing a hair piece and Ali keeped knocking it off, so Rock got tired of it and belted Ali real good to the body to send a message. I guess Ali stopped after that.

cc back
10-16-2006, 02:02 PM
PRIDE OF BOSTON

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

yeah it was Marciano in the 13th and it was pretty cool. They were supposed to pull their punches to the head but in the documentary they said that taps were turning into power shots and you see the heads snap back alot. Body punches were fair game and it was said that Marciano got into great shape for it... It was a great documentary and fight... They took stats from the 5 best fights so it was 2 prime fighters... each jab, hold, hook, cross, straight, uppercut, bob, weave were all calculated and fed in to the cpu and it spit out a blow by blow that was scripted for the fight... Rocky died before he could see the end result...
10-16-2006, 02:05 PM
PRIDE OF BOSTON

Re: "THE SUPERFIGHT"

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danny_G

I thought I heard this before but I have never seen the footage or read anything else on the matter. Arent they doing this today with computer games? Was not this the reason Rocky Balbao came out of retirement because a study/computer game resulted in favor of Rocky to beat Mason 'The Line' Dixon.?

I also read somewhere, that Marciano did not retire undefeated. I swore I thought he did but some one told me he had not and others were saying the same thing. I guess I should be more like majesty and say: 'Prove it" :) LOL

Can you tell us more about this video?
Like title, producer, genre and what ever else, so we can look for it on line. The more info, the better. ;)

yeah it was Marciano in the 13th and it was pretty cool. They were supposed to pull their punches to the head but in the documentary they said that taps were turning into power shots and you see the heads snap back alot. Body punches were fair game and it was said that Marciano got into great shape for it... It was a great documentary and fight... They took stats from the 5 best fights so it was 2 prime fighters... each jab, hold, hook, cross, straight, uppercut, bob, weave were all calculated and fed in to the cpu and it spit out a blow by blow that was scripted for the fight... Rocky died before he could see the end result...