Go find heavyweight fights aired by CBS during the Gil Clancy/Tim Ryan era. Angelo Dundee was often there if he wasn’t in one of the corners. ABC had the bigger budget and also often aired heavyweight titles in primetime (before HBO began to throw even bigger money to get some of those title fights on its subscription service) and NBC was on the more bargain-basement end (although Ferdie Pacheco convinced them to jump in on some of Larry Holmes’ later fights), so ended up with some good bouts but not many of the better ones). CBS was right in the middle. Here are a few I can recommend: Weaver-Coetzee (Clancy/Ryan/Dundee) Cooney-Young (Dick Stockton/Clancy) Coetzee-Thomas (Clancy/Ryan/Ray Leonard) Page-Monroe (Clancy/Ryan/Dundee) Monroe-LeDoux (Clancy/Ryan) Leon Spinks-Lopez (Clancy/Stockton) Leon Spinks-Alfredo Evangelista (Clancy/Ryan/Dundee) Tate-Knoetze (Clancy/Ryan/Stockton) Dokes-Ocasio II (Clancy/Ryan) Dokes-Ocasio I (Clancy/Stockton) Some non-CBS crew heavyweight bouts with good heavyweight commentary: Cobb-Shavers (Don Dunphy/Ken Norton) Dokes-Weaver II (Stu Nahan? — not sure — with Dundee) This is far from complete, no doubt, but it should be helpful for starters. (And of course a lot of HBO fights have a former/current boxer on commentary along with Lampley and Merchant.)
