First fight you can remember seeing properly.

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  1. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Only on the YouTube vid against Billy Smith, MB. Think Burt saw him fight live in N.Y.
     
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  2. Mr Butt

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    what is the best performance you have seen by a boxer
     
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  3. McGrain

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    Tyson-Bruno I. There were fights before this but this is the first one I remember from my first viewing rather than repeat viewings.

    I listened to it live on the radio (!) with my dad and then got up and watched the re-run at ten the next morning on Grandstand.
     
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  4. Mr Butt

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    bloody hell mcGrain how old are you
     
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  5. Vanboxingfan

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    The Rumble in the Jungle was probably the first fight I watched, I was about 11 then, I also recall seeing Frazier - Ali III, I remember the world stopping and watching both these fights.

    They were truly world wide events back then.
     
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  6. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Just too many masterpieces by SRR 'n Pep to pick ONE, MB.
     
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  7. Mr Butt

    Mr Butt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    did you see the second pep/saddler fight
     
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  8. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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  9. sugarsean

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    Hey John, was any of Sugar Ray's none filmed fight performance better display's of Robinson's talents as LaMotta IV.

    would really like to know,
     
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  10. Mr Butt

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    blimey i thought you were older :patsch
     
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  11. TBooze

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    Minter/VitoII was the first fight I remember, we had just moved to Crawley (where Minter came from).
     
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  12. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yes, MB. It was at the ol' Garden. Pep was MASTERFUL -- double 'n triple jabs, shoe shines, countering, moving left moving right, always floating, keeping his distance under Saddler's fierce non-stop pressure. He wanted to grind Willie to powder.

    Even when roughed-up and slugged, Willie sucked-it-up 'n kept his poise. A well deserved win, in a classic fight.
     
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  13. Mr Butt

    Mr Butt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    you lucky bugger i am so jealous :good
     
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  14. Minotauro

    Minotauro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Nigel Benn was big in my house I remember watching his rematch with Eubank but not really knowing everything that was going on. Benn vs Collins and Bruno vs Tyson 2 I remember watch properly.
     
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  15. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Funnily enough so did i. it was about 3 in the morning and after listening to the commentary i couldnt wait to see it on a sunday on BBC as i thought bruno really held his own as the commentary suggested. The actual fight was nothing like the commentary to my memory
     
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