A time machine that only lets you go back to watch one fight before 1900

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by Melankomas, Oct 14, 2024.


  1. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    Good shout.

    That woudl answer as many questions as anything.
     
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  2. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I don’t care if it was Florence Henderson … murder is murder!

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  3. nikrj

    nikrj Active Member Full Member

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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    You gonna watch them fight as toddlers?
     
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  5. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I'd have to see John L in action and I'd want to see a LPR fight and I have a penchant for malarial Mississippi weather, so that narrows it down.
     
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  6. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT banned Full Member

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    The first Fitz-Sharkey fight would be cool. Upon the DQ, I’ll scream FIX along with the rest of them - I might even pass the word around beforehand as to exactly how and when it will happen just to impress people. Then again, no, too many questions and too much suspicion will come my way.
     
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  7. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For me It'd have to be a John L.Sullivan fight . To actually see what he was.
     
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  8. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Which Sullivan fight would you want to see the most? Ryan 1 was his best performance, Kilrain being another, but the second Mitchell fight was a straight up war of attrition so I would’ve loved to have seen that fight
     
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  9. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Sick pfp btw
     
  10. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Sullivan vs. Flood is a pretty good one, Sullivan claimed that the only fights he was genuinely in peak shape for was the Flood fight and the first Ryan fight
     
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  11. Minotauro

    Minotauro Boxing Addict Full Member

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  12. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Some of those lasted like a week.
     
  13. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Happened in 1904, otherwise this would have been my answer too. Your post still gets a like from me.
     
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  14. SixesAndSevens

    SixesAndSevens Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire Full Member

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    I'd finally get a chance to see the Windmill at work.
     
  15. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    IT also had a legendary atmosphere ... Gaslight NYC, Sullivan entering a true Lion's Den of vice and violence to take out the local hoodlum's baddest badass .... he literally could have been killed nd thrown off the bat .... pretty dramatic stuff.
     
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