Brilliant Undercards

Judgement Night:

It all kicked off at the Nynex Arena, Manchester:

Ronald 'Winky' Wright vs Ensley Bingham
Prince Naseem Hamed vs Remigio Molina
Danny Williams vs Michael Murray - 1
Steve Collins vs Nigel Benn - 2
Herbie Hide vs Frankie Swindell
Michael Brodie vs Miguel Matthews

Then over to the MGM Grand, Las Vegas:
Scott Welch vs Daniel Eduardo Netto
Christy Martin vs Bethany Payne
Henry Akinwande vs Alexander Zolkin
Michael Moorer vs Frans Botha
Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield - 1

 

I don't know if the fights were any good, but both Sam Langford and Harry Greb fought on the Dempsey-Miske undercard in 1920.

Dempsey, Greb and Langford on the same bill. There's no way round how impressive that sounds to our ears now.

 

Thomas Hearns v Mark Medal - WBC light-middle
Barry McGuigan v Steve Cruz - WBA feather
Roberto Duran v Robbie Sims - middleweight contenders, 10 round.

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Revenge:The Rematches

Julio Cesar Chavez-Frankie Randall
Azumah Nelson-Jesse James Leija
Gerald McClellan-Julian Jackson
Terry Norris-Simon Brown
Ricardo Lopez-Kermin Guardia

 

Unfinished Business.

Julio Cesar Chavez - Meldrick Taylor II
Frankie Randall- Juan Martin Coggi
Felix Trinidad-Yory Boy Campas
Vincent Pettway - Gianfranco Rosi
Gabe Ruelas-Jesse James Leija
Ricardo Lopez-Surachai Sungmarekot
Giovani Parisi-Freddie Pendleton

 

Don King, for all this myriad faults, had some great undercards during the period Mike Tyson was in prison from 92-95. These were deep cards, often with numberous World Title fights and other regional championship fights/cross roads fights, etc.

I personally attended his card at the Capitol Centre in Landover Maryland in Spring 1995.

The main event was the classic Simon Brown/Vincent Pettway world title fight where Brown was left flat on his back throwing punches in the air. What a surreal sight

The undercard had many quality fights and lasted what seemed forever. I remember Freddie Pendleton kod Darryl Tyson in a give and take war

John David Jackson decisioned a comebacking James "Hardrock" Green. Maurice Blocker was on the card. After his fight, both he and his opponent sat in the lower rows of the stands with a bunch of us and shot the ****.

here's the full card from boxrec:

LOL. I totally forgot Bernard Hopkins was on the card. He dismantled Segundo Mercardo, who was never the same afterwards.


US Air Arena, Landover, Maryland, USA

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Bernard Hopkins W Segundo Mercado TKO 7 12

Freddie Pendleton W Darryl Tyson TKO 10 12

Simon Brown L Vincent Pettway KO 6 12

Maurice Blocker W Bobby Butters TKO 5 10

William Joppy W Joaquin Velasquez UD 10 10

Ernest Mateen L Tim Hillie PTS 10 10

John David Jackson W James Green UD 8 8

Humberto Aranda W Ed Griffin PTS 6 6

Darryl Lattimore W David Gonzalez PTS 6 6

Lamar Murphy W Lyndon Walker TKO 1

Oba Carr W Alfredo Rojas KO 5

Bernard Grant L Antonio Reese TKO 1

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On the Ali - Spinks rematch undercard Rossman upset Galindez in a shocker and Danny Lopez iced Juan Malvarez ..

 

We can add the Lujan-Davila bantamweight title fight and a Marvin Johnson fight too. Great card, and televised on prime-time free tv in the U.S.

 

Leonard-Benitez had Hagler - Antuerfermo 1 .. what else ?

Holmes - Weaver 1 had Duran - Palimino, Jimmy Young - Wendell Bailey

Holmes - ****ey had Shavers-Tillis, Page - Berbick and a Wilfredo Gomez fight

 

Leonard-Benitez & Hagler-Antuofermo were about it. Some solid guys were on the undercard, but no one extraordinary. Still, between the two main bouts it was nearly 30 rounds of top-level championship boxing.
http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=436

The Holmes-C00ney card had 11 fights on it, including, as you say, Shavers-Tillis, Page-Berwick, Murray Sutherland-Eddie Davis, Wilfredo Gomez-Juan Antonio Lopez, and Mitch Green-Walter Santemore.

How about:

Holmes-Witherspoon
Dokes-Weaver II
Page-Snipes
Ocasio-Stephens

Holyfield-Tyson I
Moorer-Botha
Akinwande-Zolkin
plus bouts with Ricardo Lopez and Christy Martin.

 

Nice job on the details .. DK really put on some terrific fight cards ..

 

Agreed with the above statements regarding King's 90's cards when he lost his meal ticket in Tyson. Those cards were so good.

 

I'm no King fan, but he really did indeed put on some terrific cards.

 

I read Arum's comment as meaning : We can get away with poor undercards so we do, and in the process we save a lot of money that goes straight on to our bottom line as profit.