Who is your money on

The scenario is that we are in a futuristic world where old fighters are brough back by way of time machine to fight. Your task is to pick a winner (even money). You know not only what happened to that fighter in his own time, but also the results of a few warm up fights. Each scenario is totally different. ie the results of scenario 1 are of no relevance or difference to Scenario 2 etc.

Scenario 1-

Jack Dempsey vs Lennox Lewis - Dempsey wins by KO in rnd 4 against Vitali. Lennox fights Jimmy Braddock and wins a close decision over 12 rounds.

Scenario 2 -
Andrew Golota vs Joe Louis - Joe Louis beats Jameel McLine by controversial Split Decision after being knocked down in rnd 3. Golota handles Joe Walcott easily in 8 rnds.

Scenario 3 - Bob Fitzsimmons vs Mike Tyson - Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Riddick Bowe in 6 rounds after dominating the affair and showing no concerns about Riddick's power. Fitzsimmons power was worrying Bowe. Tyson tunes up by knocking out Ezzard Charles in a round.

Scenario 4 - Gene Tunney vs George Foreman - Gene Tunney warms up by fighting Earnie Shavers. Shavers doesnt win a round, much like Tunney Dempsey 1. Foreman fights Billy Conn and wins a split decision.

So i am interested, with these scenarios, who do you pick, does the warm up fights have any effect on your pick, and how confident are you?

 

Lewis has never fought a smaller mobile guy like Braddock. It is assumed that superheavys are too big and blast these guys out. The reality is that anyone can have a bad day and be taken the distance. It doesnt mean Lennox wouldnt blast out Braddock in one next time up. but it does indicate taht their is no class difference between the two eras.

In other words, Lennox vs A good fighter from the era (dempsey) will be a fight and not likely a blow out. Likewise, Willard is assumed by many to be an unskilled giant, and Vitali a skilled modern superheavy. The Dempsey win shows he can do to modern super heavys what he did to Willard.

Now the question then becomes, who is your money on. Lennox or Dempsey. Is Lennox that much better than Vitali, that he would still be favoured over Dempsey, or is Lennox going to beat Dempsey in a boxing match, even though it is unlikely that his power and reach will be simply to much for him, because of his size.

I am interested to see how many people are able to change their line of thought on these things according to how certain questions are answered. And let us be honest, despite all the crapping on about film and such forth their really so many unanswered questions when matching fighters of current eras, let alone different eras.

 

Good pick. I think i agree with you.

Tunney's chances of victory in such a fight rely on him being able to take a foreman punch. To be perfectly honest, there is no evidence that Tunney has anything but a first class chin. In fact, despite limited heavyweight fights it is probably likely that he takes a better punch than Jimmy Young. He certainly did for his time.

 

Well Jimmy Braddock was a better fighter than Mavrovich. How did Mavrovich go with Lennox?

 

Vitali didnt have a better chin than Willard, in fact in his present condition, he was very, very similar to Willard. Why in the world is it difficult to see Dempsey stopping him in 4. Is it difficult to see say Tyson stopping him in 4? Vitali has taken some big bombs, but so had Lennox before Hasim and oliver stopped him. Vitali has never been attacked and placed under pressure like Dempsey did to Willard. I seen nothing unrealistic about this. IN fact if Dempsey is as good as many people suggest he is, and he lands early on Vitali (or anyone else), i would say it is the most likely outcome, if not sooner.