Fights you want to see on You Tube but cannot find.

Alfred Ankamah vs Quirino Garcia I (1999-08-27,WBC International super welterweight title,Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico),Ankamah won by KO in 11 round.Fight organized by Promociones Del Pueblo and televised on Televisa and probably Univision.

It was a huge upset ,Garcia before facing Ankamah beat Shibata Flores (TKO 6) and post prime Meldrick Taylor (UD 12) and Simon Brown (UD 12).Both guys had very aggressive styles and hit hard.I think it was a slugfest.And i want see it.

 

There is a longer version of Willard - Moran that shows the preflight in the ring and you can see a famous , iconic moment when old John L. Is introduced to the crowd. It’s gone. There is also other Johnson Jeffries preflight footage where Sullivans swings at the speed bag. Not the footage we’ve all seen but from a longer angle distance. Also gone. Small golden nuggets.

 

James Pipps vs Carmelo Negron.

 

Matt Franklin-Dynamite Douglas

 

It has always been funny to me which fighters seem to have a lot of recorded fights out there and which ones don't

Is it that film of these fights never existed or that its been lost or held by someone that chooses to just sit on it?

 

This is a super deep cut, but it’s Billy Hardy vs Ray Gilbody in a British Bantamweight title fight back in the 80s. Not sure if it was on BBC1 or ITV, but I’m not actually interested in the fight.
It’s because my dad, my uncle and one of his best pals were sat a few rows from ringside, dead center and on film clearly for most of the broadcast. I’d absolutely love to find it so I can show my kids.

 

Right now there’s a good 27 mins and so of Johnson - Jeffries, incl. intros.

It’s raw and a bit of hard watch but still gold to a boxing fanatic.

We can see how well it came up when they “cleaned up” certain segments of the footage - see Burns Doco.

I wish they would do same for the entirety of the footage still available.

 

Antonio Cervantes vs Rodolfo González

"Antonio Cervantes from Columbia ended the win streak of Rodolfo Gonzalez in an upset at the Olympic Auditorium. Referee Lee Grossman stopped the bout at the end of the 8th round with gore gushing out of a cut over Gonzalez' left eye.

"It was a free swinging affair with Gonzalez down in the first. Cervantes hit the deck in the 3rd, shortly after Rodolfo was cut.

"Two judges, Rudy Jordan and Abe Cohen had Rodolfo in front by one point at the finish. Grossman favored Cervantes by a similar margin." -Ring magazine, April, 1971 issue.

 

Danny Lopez vs Sean O’Grady

Ray Leonard vs Randy Shields

Tony Chiaverini vs Edgar Ross

Wilfredo Gomez vs Carlos Mendoza (ABC surely filmed the whole fight but they only showed a few rounds on TV as filler and those are all that seem to exist — it was on the undercard of Holmes-Shavers II and ABC also showed the full Roberto Duran-Zeferino Gonzalez bout and added the highlight rounds of Gomez-Mendoza when Ray Leonard waxed Andy Price in one round)

Speaking of Price, would love to see his wins over Pipino Cuevas and Carlos Palomino

I am grateful that Pipino vs Randy Shields found its way back to YouTube relatively recently.

All of these of course are of more recent vintage (1970s forward) and were probably filmed in some fashion even if not televised — I mean we could list all of Harry Greb’s big fights but what’s the point?

 

The Harold Johnson vs Julio Mederos "poisoned orange" fight in 1955. I swear I remember seeing footage years ago of Johnson's collapse on YouTube.

Larry Boardman vs Tony DeMarco, the fight that ended Boardman's meteroric rise in the rankings after defeating four current and former champions in nine months -- shocking the boxing world at age 19 and 20!. For this fight he moved up from lightweight to welterweight and apparently got his ass handed to him. (At last word Larry was still living in Florida at 89.)

Also Sonny Liston vs Mike DeJohn in Miami Beach and vs Zora Folley in Denver. It's said that no footage exists of either fight.

 

How is it that a sensational puncher and champion like Lew Jenkins can't be seen on YouTube? I've been hoping for years that one of his fights would surface.