Top 5 Unseen fights

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  1. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What 5 Unfilmed fights would you want footage for most. The only rule is,
    The fights actually have to have happened. (No fantasy fights)
    Heres mine

    1. Ketchel vs Papke 3
    2. Greb vs Walker
    3. Charles vs Burley
    4. Robinson vs Gavalin
    5. Langford vs Walcott

    I've been informed that there is actually footage of Robinson vs Gavalin, but if the Cuban government have it, I doubt it's getting seen
     
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  2. roughdiamond

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    Greb vs Tunney
    Greb vs Walker
    Robinson Vs Gavilan
    Britton vs Lewis
    Sullivan vs Kilrain

    There is way more than 5 you could mention IMO.
     
  3. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1 Bazooka Limon KO 3 Frankie Baltazar
    2. Ted Sanders KO Alex Ramos
    3. Tex Cobb vs. Bernardo Mercado
    4. Roberto Duran vs Jimmy Heair whole fight
    5. Roberto Duran vs Monroe Brooks whole fight.
     
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  4. Unforgiven

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    Greb-Walker and Robinson-Gavilan are on film.
    Very very difficult to acquire apparently.
     
  5. Jayme Chavez

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    Robinson vs Lamotta 1 through 5
     
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  6. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No Harry Greb fight is on film. Period. Jim Jacobs and Bill Clayton looked their entire lives and had a reward for Greb footage. Any talk of filmed fights existing is bull**** and a lie.
     
  7. roughdiamond

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    I believe this is the case, unfortunately.
     
  8. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Oh god, yeah - so, so many...
     
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  9. Jel

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    1. Any Greb fight
    2. Zale-Graziano 1
    3. Saddler-Pep 2
    4. Robinson-Gavilan 2
    5. Arnold Taylor-Romeo Anaya
     
  10. PhillyPhan69

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    I don’t know if they exist or not, just that I would like to see them.

    Bob Montgomery vs Ike Williams I
    Tommy Loughran vs Harry Greb III
    Jimmy Wilde vs Memphis Pal Moore
    Willie the Worm Monroe vs Marvin Hagler I
    George Godfrey vs Sam Langford I
     
  11. salsanchezfan

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    I don't know what all the fuss about Greb is...….no one's ever seen film of him, so he must suck.
     
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  12. The Morlocks

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    Unless he was considered just a rough and tumble dirty fighter no one really cared for. It would explain no film and him being left off almost all greatest fighters of the 1st half of the 20th century lists.
     
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  13. Unforgiven

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    The Greb-Walker fight was filmed and has been viewed since.
     
  14. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Maybe, that would explain quite a bit
     
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  15. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Are you at liberty to disclose by whom?