Frazier Ali FOTC. A thousand pages easily given everything that had to happen globally and politically for the fight to eventually happen when and how it did. But also the legendary personalities and stories of both men, the in ring action, the dramatic results, the divide it made amounts the public. And everyone from Frank Sinatra working as a photographer to Frank Lucas in fur ringside.
obviously the usual suspects will be mentioned from Dempsey to Mike Tyson - Louis vs Schmeling, Ali vs Frazier, Forman, Holmes and so on... TOO Much written on all them, their finished. But the ONLY One I can honestly think merrits the excercise has got to be HAGLER vs HEARNS.
Really, it depends as much on the reader as on the topic and the writer. In my research days, I've probably been engaged enough to want to read that many pages about 10 fights or so about which no one else would give the time of day. Looking at it another way, how many 1,000-page books have been written about a single fight? None that I know of!!! So no author has come up with a fight that they have judged as a topic worthy of the effort. The proof is in the pudding, or lack thereof. This is my take as a guy who has written almost 1800 pages about the life and times of a boxing promoter/trainer/manager.
Of course, almost every major fight could. Whether they'd be worth reading or not, IDK. Every Dempsey title fight would be a good place to start.
Dempsey-Willard Dempsey-Carpantier Dempsey-Gibbons Dempsey-Firpo Dempsey-Tunney I Dempsey-Tunney II So maybe not all the Dempsey title fights. But most of them! I'd read those. Jeffries-Johnson is a duh...Johnson-Willard too.
Don't forget about the promoter Jack Kent Cooke and the movie host Burt Lancaster! Still not enough for 1,000 pages though or somebody would have written it by now. Why don't you take it on!!
A few: Greb-Walker Langford-Johnson Gans-Nelson 1 Armstrong-Zivic 1 Benny Leonard-Jack Britton were I not so tired, perhaps a few more. stay safe guys.
My wife is a law professor, and part of her job is to publish articles in her field of study under her institution's flag, etc. I tried to get her to do a paper on Dempsey-Gibbons, since business, tax, and corporate bankruptcy law are her specialty. Somehow she wasn't interested. I think it would be a fascinating study, though not sure any such thing would merit 1,000 pages.
Chan-hee Park vs Shoji Oguma I An undefeated fighter who looks to lead the new generation of flyweights defends against a hard-luck ex-champ who has garnered a reputation as something of a choker. The fight itself features skillful boxing, dirty boxing, a several-minute fan riot, and one boxer's eventual surrender, and it all intersects with major political unrest in South Korea at the time, after the government's expansion of martial law and the Gwangju incident. Neither man's career was ever the same after the bout. The only trouble in making a book out of this fight is that it was not a heavily anticipated matchup, so there's not much to be written about the buildup. Park was expected to win easily.
The major sociological fights of the 20th Century. Johnson - Jeffries Dempsey - Tunney 2 Louis -Schmeling 2 Ali - Frazier 1 all have been done , some terrific work out there.