Greatest MSG Fight

[TitoFan]

The first Ali-Frazier fight put boxing on the map like no other fight in the history of boxing. There's no way any fight can be bigger than that.

I disagree TitoFan...

Louis vs. Schmeling was USA vs. Germany, I personaly think that is the biggest matchup in boxing history. Not only did it pin 2 fighters but it also pinned 2 entire countries against eachother.

You make a very good point, CMM. And I would personally put that fight in 2nd after Ali-Frazier for the reasons I just posted a minute ago. But yeah... Louis-Schmeling was enormous.

You know... maybe it's not quite that clear cut. Let's say those are the two biggest fights in MSG history. Ali-Frazier because of its implications on boxing's television popularity (and growth after that)... and Louis-Schmeling because of the hugeness of the symbolic USA-Germany confrontation during those times.

[ICB]

Salvador Sanchez vs Azumah Nelson
Earnie Shavers vs Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali 1
Joe Frazier vs Jerry Quarry 1
Larry Holmes vs Mike Weaver


I'll think of more later.

Roberto Duran vs Ken Buchanan
Roberto Duran vs Esteban De Jesus 1

[Taeth]

Ali-Fraizer was a big fight, but not hte biggest fight ever, Dempsey and Louis also had fights that captured the hearts of Americans and people world wide maybe even to a greater degree than Ali ever did.

Robinson had plenty of big fights at MSG.

With the advent of televised sports, Ali-Frazier did more to put boxing in the mainstream of sports than any Louis or Dempsey fight. Ali-Frazier did for boxing what the 1958 Colts-Giants NFL championship game did for American football. 'Nough said.

No way, even televised, almost every American was listening on Radio to Louis-Schmeling 2, the Dempsey fights. Ali was very much disliked for his stance on the war. He wasn't as popular as Louis or Dempsey as popular as he was. He's just more recent. I mean way back in the day Dempsey drawing million dollar crowds, and that was like a decade into the 1900's. Nowadays that would be the equivalanet of probably over 500 million dollars, and that was without PPV.

[CutMeMick]

I disagree TitoFan...

Louis vs. Schmeling was USA vs. Germany, I personaly think that is the biggest matchup in boxing history. Not only did it pin 2 fighters but it also pinned 2 entire countries against eachother.

You make a very good point, CMM. And I would personally put that fight in 2nd after Ali-Frazier for the reasons I just posted a minute ago. But yeah... Louis-Schmeling was enormous.

You know... maybe it's not quite that clear cut. Let's say those are the two biggest fights in MSG history. Ali-Frazier because of its implications on boxing's television popularity (and growth after that)... and Louis-Schmeling because of the hugeness of the symbolic USA-Germany confrontation during those times.

I can agree with that...