Best fight card ever

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  1. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Perhaps this topic has been broached, but if so I missed it.

    So what's the best collection of fights in one day/night in one place in history?

    I figure there are two criteria, each worth 50 percent of the equation:

    1) The quality and importance of the card on paper, before the first bell rings -- how significant are these fights, what's at stake?

    2) How good were the fights when they actually happened? What was the in-ring action like? You can have great, historic matchups going in that turn out to be duds, and sometimes fights that don't look so great on paper end up being classics.

    I guess the No. 1 contender that never happened as the Harold "Rossfields" Smith "This is It" card that was going to have a bunch of great fights -- but then he got arrested for embezzling the millions he used to stake himself in the boxing game and it never happened. IIRC, he did put on a couple of megacards.

    So what comes to mind when you think of this topic?
     
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  2. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This one isn't bad. Sept. 15, 1978, Superdome, New Orleans

    Alberto Davila L Jorge Lujan UD 15

    Muhammad Ali W Leon Spinks UD 15

    Danny Lopez W Juan Malvarez KO 2

    Mike Rossman W Victor Emilio Galindez TKO 13

    Marvin Johnson W Jerry Celestine PTS 10

    Mircea Simon W David Wynne KO 1
     
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  3. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    First one I thought of.
     
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  4. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Polo Grounds
    Ambers, Lou vs. Montanez, Pedro II
    World Lightweight Championship
    Ross, Barney vs. Garcia, Ceferino III
    World Welterweight Championship
    Thil, Marcel (final) vs. Apostoli, Fred
    IBU Middleweight Championship
    Escobar, Sixto vs. Jeffra, Harry III
    World Bantamweight Championship
    Chappie, Young vs. Gonzales, Augustine II
    Jacobs, Mike (promoter)
     
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  5. Azzer85

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    Wasnt there one with a joint UK/US show around 1996? I think it had Tyson/Bruno 2 on there and Hamed was on the card as well amongst others. It started off in the UK and then halfway through it went over to the UK
     
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  6. Saintpat

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    ABC-TV used to do great work with fights from 2 and 3 locations -- maybe Larry Holmes defending the title in Vegas and another title fight from New Orleans and Sugar Ray Leonard from somewhere else.

    While it makes for great television, I don't think those count. That's 2 fight cards, or three -- not one.
     
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  7. TBooze

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    Revenge; The Rematches
     
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  8. PhillyPhan69

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    I was just looking at this fight card and thought about starting a thread...but a quick search revealed not only this thread but this particular card being mentioned. Bet it was an awesome night for those that got to see this night live.
     
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    Mike Tyson KO 1 Michael Spinks

    Carl Williams w12 Trevor Berbick

    James Douglas TKO 7 Mike Williams

    Donovan Ruddock TKO 2 Reggie Gross

    Maurice Blocker TKO 5 Orlando Orozco

    Glen Thomas W8 John Herbert

    Anthony Witherspoon TKO 5 Robert Stanley

    Rodolfo Marin W4 Bruce Johnson

    Jerry Jones TKO 3 Bull Melsop
     
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  10. Saintpat

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    I was there live!

    The highlight of the undercard as I remember it was Muhammad Ali arriving and making his way to ringside with the crowd chanting “Ali.”
     
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  11. apollack

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    Some of those Don King cards had a lot of champions:

    Azumah Nelson WMD12 Gabriel Ruelas
    Terry Norris WTKO2 Maurice Blocker
    Julio Cesar Chavez WTKO5 Greg Haugen
    Michael Nunn KO1 Dan Morgan
    Gerald McClellan TKO2 Tyrone Moore
    Felix Trinidad WTKO4 Pedro Aguirre

    Another card:

    Julio Cesar Chavez WTD8 Frankie Randall
    Gerald McClellan WKO1 Julian Jackson
    Simon Brown LUD12 Terry Norris
    Azumah Nelson LUD12 Jess James Jeija
    Ricardo Lopez WUD12 Kermin Guardia
    Meldrick Taylor KO2 Chad Broussard
    Christy Martin WUD6 Laura Serrano

    Felix Trinidad WTKO4 Luis Ramon Campas
    Gabriel Ruelas WUD12 Jesse James Leija
    Frankie Randall WUD12 Juan Martin Coggi
    Vincent Pettway KO4 Gianfranco Rosi
    Meldrick Taylor LTKO8 Julio Cesar Chavez
    Ricardo Lopez WTKO1 Surachai Saengmorakot
    Giovanni Parisi WSD10 Freddie Pendleton


    He did not promote a lot of cards, but when he did, he usually had pretty stacked shows with a lot of talent.
     
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  12. William Walker

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    Certainly not any great fights here, but I thought it was pretty awesome that time that Ken Norton, Jimmy Young, Ron Lyle, and Larry Holmes all fought on the same card in 1977, and each fight was filmed.
     
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  13. FrankinDallas

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    Seeing those cards make me want to cry. We've not getting ANYTHING like them these days. We're lucky to get two competitive fights on any given card.

    The outdoor Matchroom bouts at Eddie Hearns' pops house have been decent the past year. Best we can get with the pandemonium on worldwide.
     
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    The best promoter ever.... I don’t care what they say about him
     
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  15. Saintpat

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    I attended some of those DK cards back in the day that would start at 4 p.m. and end at or after midnight. Saw Simon Brown win a 10-rounder in Memphis at about 6 o’clock well before the TV portion started. I, of course, am the guy who arrived at the start when practically no one was there and stayed til the end.

    That card included Michael Nunn-Crawford Ashley in the main, Orlin Norris, Oliver McCall-Damiani, Tim Austin’s debut and a bunch of others.
     
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