Choose one fight that there is no footage of

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  1. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    In a cellar somewhere in Eastern Kansas on a farmhouse porch in a box next to a milk crate containing the film of Greb-Walker.
     
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  2. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Not that pathetic, garbled facsimile that exists on You Tube.
     
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  3. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Exactly.
     
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  4. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Haha
     
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  5. The Undefeated Lachbuster

    The Undefeated Lachbuster On the Italian agenda Full Member

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    Gene Tunney vs Harry Greb 1
     
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  6. Shempz

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    Wilder vs Sconiers.
     
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  7. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Jel, the memory of the original article on that fight I read once in and old, old edition of Boxing Illustrated is the "video" that plays in my head. What a titanic, epic battle it was!!
     
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  8. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jofre Vs Saldivar.
     
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  9. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Yep, I watched the first Zale v Graziano fight that way too!
     
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  10. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    That version can never be replaced you know.
     
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  11. The Senator

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    I mentioned in the other topic that I'd want these three:
    -Sullivan vs. Kilrain
    -Jackson vs. Corbett
    -Greb vs. Walker
     
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  12. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I remember seeing it at the time.
     
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  13. lufcrazy

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    Greb Vs Tunney 1
     
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  14. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    wow..what a performance that must have been.
     
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  15. Roughhouse

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    Walter Moore was a former amateur star whose career went off the rails when he was sent to Vietnam and served as a tailgunner. When he came back, he eventually hooked up with Ernie Terrell in Chicago and became the centerpiece to Terrell trying to revitalize the boxing scene up there. Moore ran off a string of wins in 1976-78 and was I think 20-0 with wins over the usual sturdy journeymen. He was a pressing in-fighter without a big punch, sort of a poor man's Joe Frazier, and was getting a push in the boxing mags.

    Not sure which story is right; Terrell said he was a great talent that just did not want to fight the top heavies and actually said getting him to take a big fight was like "leading a man to the electric chair" but I also heard Moore was frustrated at being moved so slowly. In either case, Moore took a fight with Tiger Roy Williams in Vegas and got stopped. There was no coverage in Ring Magazine or any other magazine, no photos of the fight and no write up I ever found even in the local Chicago Tribune and obviously no footage of the fight. Even being a member of these Classic Boxing Forums where people have seen and remember obscure fights, no one saw the fight even though it was supposedly televised on a Saturday night CBS heavyweight doubleheader.

    Funny thing is that Moore would have likely gotten a title fight against Larry Holmes had he won.
     
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