If you could go back in time and watch a fight live what would it be?

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  1. Austinboxing

    Austinboxing British Boxing fan Full Member

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    I’d go back and watch Hagler Vs Hearns. Seeing that live must of been as exhilarating as a boxing experience can get. My Grandfather was lucky enough to have seen Prime Hagler fight in person back when he challenged Alan Minter in the 1980s and I wish I was alive back then so I could have gone with him and seen the legend fight.
     
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  2. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Zale-Graziano 1 or 2. Then I’d tell everyone it was the best fight there’d ever been and that no fight in history could compare to it. Which is pretty much what I reckon happened.
     
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    I was at the Hagler v Minter fight.
     
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  4. Austinboxing

    Austinboxing British Boxing fan Full Member

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    Yo bro that’s actually smart. Watching a fight we don’t have footage of would be awesome. Maybe I should change my answer to Charles Vs Moore.
     
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  5. Austinboxing

    Austinboxing British Boxing fan Full Member

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    Awesome. Did you struggle to leave after? My grandfather said they were chucking loads of stuff at Hagler and fights were breaking out and he found it difficult to get out unscathed.
     
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  6. Jel

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    Good to see you back here, McVey!
     
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  7. Fergy

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    I'd like to be at Dempsey V Willard. Caught up in the history of it, seeing Dempsey at his mauling best.
    I've seen the footage dozens of times and seen the crowd, and loved to have being in there, on that hot day in 1919.
     
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    It was a crazy night by the looks of it (I wasn't there), I felt sorry for Hagler really.
    Never had a chance to really celebrate in the ring.
     
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  9. White Bomber

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    SRR vs Jimmy Doyle
    SRR vs Kid Gavillan
    Ali vs Liston 2 - so I can see the dive
     
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    Charles vs Moore II. There is a reason they rubber matched --- an extremely close score while fighting at home always makes for an interesting rewatch.
     
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  11. Rubber Glove Sandwich

    Rubber Glove Sandwich A lot of people have pools Full Member

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    Just one?

    Bazooka Limon vs Bobby Chacon IV
     
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    Benn McClellan
     
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    FOTC
     
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    Live and ringside are two different things. If I could have ringside seats I have four choices, not listed by preference.

    1. Hagler-Hearns
    2. Chacon-Limon 4 - (My favorite fight)
    3. Ali-Frazier 1 (FOTC)
    4. Tunney-Dempsey 2 (The long count)
     
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    Dempsey v Willard
    Dempsey v Firpo
     
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