If you could pick an old time fight to watch in modern tech television?

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  1. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I automatically gravitate to historical or just barn-burners that I've never seen. So mine off the top of my head would be:

    Greb v Walker
    Bivins v Marshall
    Burley v Moore
    Steele v Apostoli I & 2
    Antonio Cervantes v Rodolfo Gonzalez
    Bennie Briscoe v Cyclone Hart I
     
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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I should also add:

    Eric Boon v Arthur Danahar I & 2
    Benny Lynch v Peter Kane 1 & 2
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Definitely Dempsey v Willard
    FOTC
    Greb v Tunney I
    Louis v Schmeling I-II
    Walcott v Marciano I
    Zivic v Burley I
    Williams v Marshal ( prime yrs.)
    Charles v Moore II
    Fitz v Choynski
    Gans v Langford
    M. Gibbons v McFarland
    Sullivan v Ryan I
     
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  4. Steve Fero

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    Can’t name 1:
    Willard - Johnson
    Willard - Dempsey
    Johnson - Jeffries
    All Fitz - Corbett
    Corbett - Jeffries
    Fitz - Jeffries
    Fitz - Johnson
    Corbett - Sullivan
    Johnson - Langford
     
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    The complete copy of Briscoe-Hart I must be out there somewhere but at least we have this:
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    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    I have always had a gut feeling that Joe Bowker would be incredible to watch, I mean the man was prepared to walk & take lifts from farmers on horse & wagon along the 200 odd mile trek from Lancashire in NW England down to London Town in the South to get to the Hub to embark on what became a Top Boxing Career...

    a British Grapes of Wrath kind of story to help envision the time period and mostly Rural type of living taking place everywhere...

    Tough & Hardy men & fighters. I think he would impress.
     
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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Thanks, Fred. That's the most I've seen on Briscoe - Hart I
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    B.B Briscoe is such an entertaining fighter to watch
     
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    The technical perfection of Joe Louis would be my very 1st pick.
    Especially his destruction of Schmeling....
     
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    Greb Tunney
     
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    Tom Cribb vs. Jem Belcher, 44 rounds, 1807. Sounds like a spectacle.
    Jack Johnson vs. Joe Choynski, the fight that taught Jack Johnson the sweet science.
    Sam Langford vs. Jack Johnson, I would need to see if Sam really was robbed as he claimed.
    Greb vs. Tunney or Walker
     
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    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Walcott/Charles lll
     
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    Langford was not robbed against Johnson. He was beaten quite badly, although Sam showed his vaunted chin, toughness, and durability. Nevertheless, every single local newspaper that covered that fight talked about how horribly beaten Langford was. Johnson did everything but knock him out.
     
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    Dempsey v Firpo. Jack Johnson v...anyone when he was top of his game. Duran v Buchanan. Prime Benny Lynch v Jackie Brown or Small Montana.
     
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