STACKED- THE GREATEST FIGHT CARDS!!!

CON-KING aka DON, Is the worst greatest promoter ever.
He's dogged his clients- that's the worst.

But after thinking hard about it, I had to remember, King's cards were usually great. Hell, STACKED!

NAME YOUR BEST FIGHT NIGHTS...

THE REMATCH
JCC VS Frankie Randall II
G. McCellan vs Julian Jackson II
Azumah Nelson vs Jesse James Leija
Terry Norris vs Simon Brown
Ricardo Lopez 36-0 who retired 51-0 fought an undefeated Kermin Guardia at 21-0

Plus Meldrick Taylor albeit a faded one, he fought in the card & won, along with Christy Martin.


This was one fight card, nowadays, a faded Meldrick would've been the co feature event.

 

In September of 1994

Meldrick Taylor L Julio Cesar Chavez II
Frankie Randall W Juan Martin Coggi
Felix Trinidad W Luis Ramon Campas
Ricardo Lopez W Surachai Saengmorakot
Vincent Pettway W Gianfranco Rosi
Gabriel Ruelas W Jesse James Leija

one fight card. We should be disgusted at the current crop of promoters. ALL of them.

 

2007 was an off-the-chain year for boxing.

I remember HBO did a kind of cross-televised night, where they were showing 2 fight cards, same night. Not sure why they didn't continue as it was a great night.

In Carson California:
Paul Williams vs Antonio Margarito
Undercard featured an undefeated Chris Arreoloa 20-0 & Andre Ward 12-0

Then the broadcast went to Atlantic City to show:
Kermit Cintron 27-1 vs Walter Mathysse 26-1
And a heartbreaking final fight Gatti vs Alfonos Gomez.




Side note- looking this stuff up, I couldn't but help notice how many other fights occured across the nation same night:
Roy Jones headlined in Mississippi against then undefeated Anthony Hanshaw 21-0-1
His boy Smoke Gainer undercard

Also...Vassilly Jirov fought in North Dakota?!? And Orlando Salido fought in Sonora Mexico & Then 20-0 undefeated John Duddy fought in Ireland.

And in Germany, then undefeated HW Alexander Dimentrenko 25-0, Denis Boytsov 17-0 & Tony Thompson 29-1.
Pretty good HW night in Germany for sure.

 

Con King KILLS in 1991!

Tyson vs Ruddock I
Simon Brown 33-1 vs Maurice Blocker 32-1
JCC vs Duplesis
and a rookie named Bernard Hopkins fought, the debut of Justin Juuko who Roach trained for a minute and an ancient old 85-8 Roberto Duran fought

Same card.
Point? The hate toward King stems from what his fighters said of him. But if we saw him for what he presented to fans?
Arum, MoneyTeam, GBP, Goosen-Tutor... all of em aint worth a damn..combined.

 

Some poster named jrid90
expresses what I think is one of the many problems promoters cause...can't plagiarize gotta give this poster their due:

"....promoters are to hung on not putting their start prospects on too many undercards because they feel they can rush them to become headliners and therefore give these “prospects” (who are not yet elite fighters) their own air time for exposure."


Well said. I didn't really notice it, but reading the above it became obvious. Partitioning the prospects making them headliners has thinned out the fight cards.

 

1993 last time WBC actually had real contenders fighting real champs

JCC vs Whitaker for WBC Welter
Azumah the Professor Nelson vs then undefeated Jesse James Leija 26-0-1 for WBC Super Feath weight
Terrible Terry Norris vs Joe Gatti for WBC SuperWelter

3 championship fights...
1 Card

And a bit unknown named Tim Austin 1-0 on this card... Bantam weight - he went on to be 10-1 in world title defense for IBF from 1997-2003, until he lost to Rafael Marquez.

Thomas Tate a solid amateur and fought quite a few times for MW & SMW title against Jackson, Jones Jr, Otkoe also was on this card.

No matter how you look at it; STACKED!

 

Bump.
Lennox Lewis vs Tucker
McCellan vs Jackson
JCC vs Terrence Ali

All 3 on one card for their respective WBC belts per Boxrec fight cards.

Undercards consisted of matches with Oba Carr, Hector Camacho, Thomas Tate & Meldrick Taylor.
Some HW opened this show up named King Ipitan @ 6'5inches tall w/83 inch reach. He had just beaten Ross Purity..and he was the opening bout!