Dream Boxing Card - but it has to be proportional

Main Event - Sugar Ray Robinson vs Roberto Duran @147. I concur with @George Crowcroft . This is possibly the highest skill level fight that could be made.
Co-Main Event - Jose Napoles vs Luis Rodriguez @147. Another high level affair.
Fight 3 - Randy Turpin vs Derevyanchenko @160. Two awkward guys to deal with, trying to deal with each other. Should be fun.
Fight 4 - Tony Galento vs Andy Ruiz @HW.
Fight 5 - Bennie Briscoe vs John Mugabi @160

 

MAIN EVENT: Joe Frazier versus Larry Holmes, 15 rounds, undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.

CHIEF SUPPORT: Carlos Monzon versus Eddie Booker 15 rounds, undisputed middleweight championship of the world.

FIGHT 3: Roberto Duran versus Charlie Burley, 12 rounds, non-title welterweight.

FIGHT 2: Saad Muhammad versus Lloyd Marshall 10 rounds, non-title, light heavyweight.

FIGHT 1: Iran Barkley versus Aaron Wade, 10 rounds, non-title fight, middleweight.

I'd pay to see it unfold.

 

Since I don't like time-machine fights and I do like the heavyweights, here goes a card. This would mean that no Ellis-Patterson fight happens until maybe later.

Monday, September 9, 1968 -

Main Event: Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier for the World Heavyweight Championship. 15 rounds. This is Ali's first fight since Folley.
Chief Support: Jimmy Ellis vs. Sonny Liston for the WBA Heavyweight Championship. 15 rounds.
Fight 3: Jerry Quarry vs. Oscar Bonavena. Title eliminator. 12 rounds.
Fight 4: Floyd Patterson vs. Leotis Martin. 10 rounds
Fight 5: Boone Kirkman vs. Buster Mathis. 10 rounds
Untelevised opener: Al "Blue" Lewis vs. "Florida" Al Jones. 10 rounds.

 

ME: Bob Foster vs Archie Moore for the undisputed light heavyweight title, scheduled for fifteen.

CS: Saad Muhammad vs Victor Galindez, title eliminator, scheduled for twelve.

U1: Dariusz Michalczewski vs Yaqui Lopez, title eliminator scheduled for twelve.

U2: Paul Berlenbach vs Joe Knight, ten round non-title fight.

U3: Julio Cesar Gonzalez vs Richard Hall, ten round non-title fight.

Now that's a mega card.

 

Howard Cosell enters the ring in the wake of the Joe Louis and Butterbean fight and approaches the victor. “Joe? Joe, can I have a minute of your time please? Now that you have dispatched Butterbean in devastating fashion, what does the future hold for you?”

“Tyson. I want Mike Tyson.”

“Iron Mike Tyson? Don’t you think you’re biting off more than you can chew?”

“Forget Ali and Holmes. Forget Liston, Frazier and Foreman. I want Tyson!”

At that point, an enraged ringside seated Mike Tyson bullies into the ring, rips his shirt off and approaches Louis with fists held high.

“Grab a pair of gloves and let’s get it on,” taunts Louis.

“Why do I need gloves? Let’s do this now!” responds Tyson.

Fortunately, just as a melee begins to break out, security descends on the ring and separates both fighters before things escalate further, which leads to…

Proportional Dream Boxing Card II

1. Joe Louis vs. Mike Tyson - Heavyweight title fight, 15 rounds
Tyson starts quickly and within a minute of the first round lands a huge right, which buckles Louis’ knees only to follow up with a combination that sends his opponent to the canvas. Louis, shaken but not badly hurt, calmly gets to his feet and takes a deep breath. Tyson, throwing caution to the wind, moves in for the kill, but Louis is ready with a three-punch combination of his own to stagger Tyson and drops him with a well timed uppercut.

“Both men have been down!” exclaims Jim Lampley.

“This is perhaps the best round of boxing since Hagler and Hearns!” follows up Al Bernstein.

Both fighters exchange on even terms throughout the remainder of the first, but Louis gradually gains control with his jab throughout the three subsequent rounds as Tyson’s confidence wanes.

At the start of the fifth, however, Tyson, at the behest of Cus D’Amato, switches strategy and begins cutting off the ring and going to the body. With a minute to go in the round, Louis drops his gloves and Tyson lands a solid left hook to put his opponent down. A visibly hurt Louis staggers to his feet ahead of Tyson swarming in with wicked shots to both body and head as the referee steps in to stop the fight with Louis still on his feet.

2. Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Gennady Golovkin - Middleweight title fight, 15 rounds
A game GGG is out of his element as SRR uses his superior boxing skills to build an early lead, but GGG storms back after hurting SRR in the 8th and 9th. Fight is surprisingly close with SRR ahead 7-5 entering the championship rounds, but a visibly tired GGG cannot keep up with SRR over the final three, with judges deciding in SRR”s favor 10-5.

3. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ken Buchanan - Lightweight, 12 rounds
Despite De La Hoya having advantages in height and power, Buchanan is clearly the more skilled fighter in winning a hard fought split decision victory: 7-5, 3-9 & 7-4-1

An investigation is currently underway regarding the judge that actually gave 9 rounds to De La Hoya…

4. In-Chul Baek vs. Gianfranco Rosi - Junior Middleweight, 10 rounds
Korean native Baek, having started his career with 26 straight knockout victories albeit against cans, struggles to land anything big against the wily two-time Junior Middleweight champion from Italy, succumbing to a storm of shots late in the 11th round.

5. George Foreman (70s) vs. Bruce Seldon - Heavyweight, 10 rounds
Foreman looks across the ring at Seldon and sees the telltale signs of a frightened opponent: profusely sweating, eyes bulging out and hyperventilating. Still, he decides to approach the fight cautiously, and opens the first found with a lazy jab to the forehead of Seldon, who immediately hits the canvas.

‘Big George’ saunters to a neutral corner, puts his back to the ring post and rests his huge arms on the ring ropes as the referee counts ‘…7-8-9-10, Your out!’.

If boxing is not going to be anymore challenging than this, Foreman thinks to himself, then maybe it is time to change professions, perhaps selling barbecue grills instead…

 

Deserves a bump.

 

Bump