If you could watch any fight from history, and not know the outcome?

I actually watched this live.

 

The fight would have been at 4.30 am here in UK, a young un as i was at the time was out for the count in my bed.

Watched it when it was on television and of course many times since.

 

Good shout. Imagine watching it live if you'd put a few quid on Buster? Mrs Ezzard would have had a new frock, that's for sure.

 

Not often I agree with you, rez, but that's not to say I don't enjoy reading your posts. In fact I had a little pop at you in this thread which I hoped you'd see and enjoy in the spirit in which it was intended.

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...reputation-boosts.628055/page-6#post-20608385

But you're absolutely spot on here. What an outcome. What a story. What a performance. For me, it ends the debate who was the best heavyweight ever. As patchy as Ali's form was in the 70s, no other fighter that I have seen much footage of could have done what he did that night/morning, imo.

All the best.

 

Ha Ha this means you are in the same age group as me
We only had 3 TV channels back then

 

Precisely. I was watching from Tokyo and we used to call it - "Via Satellite Broadcast", remember that term?

 

It as around noon-ish time in Tokyo

 

I remember seeing it live on HBO.

 

Joe Louis vs Billy Conn 1941.

 

Yes but back then they were crap ! and I remember the first live sat broadcast being a good one and it was a Wilfred Benitez fight . He was unknown over here then but it still attracted massive amounts of UK viewers

 

A fight of Grebb, since the only footage we have of him makes him look very poor

 

Sanchez - Gomez
Marciano - Walcott I
Tyson - Douglas
Gomez - Nelson

 

Great question. Personally to many to name..... Louis vs Scmeling #2 and Ali vs Forman would be my two though. Purely from a historical perspective , their probably isn't a fight as important as Louis -Schmeling #2 in history. Would Schmeling prove the Nazi's theory of European superiority? ( Though Schmeling himself didn't want any part of this) Beat Louis again effectively ruining his legacy? Would Schmeling see something else? Would Louis come out tentative from being taken apart in the first fight?
The Rumble in the Jungle is a fight that still gives me goose bumps though I know the results of the fight.
Too see Foreman annihilate Norton and Frazier and knowing the hell both those fighters gave Ali one
would have no choice but to think Ali could literally get killed.
I would've been scared as hell for Ali's safety. But when he won....Oh my God.