Must watch fights for an aspiring boxing historian?

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  1. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    @George Crowcroft

    Zale vs Graziano
    Harada vs Jofre 1&2
    Olivares vs Rose (absolute destruction)
    Canzoneri vs Chocolate (this is lower quality but has been fixed up on YouTube, though some of it is a little too slow)
    Canzoneri vs Ross 2 (really good quality IMO)
    Canzoneri vs Berg
    Most Freddie Steele clips are surprisingly good quality
    Napoles vs Curtis Cokes (one of the best performances ever IMO)
    Napoles vs Urbina (good quality, young Napoles at lightweight)
    Vicente Saldivar vs Baby luis (you'll like Saldivar George, skilled southpaw slugger)
     
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  2. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    The Patterson Vs Johansson trilogy
    Ezzard Charles Vs Joe Louis
    Max Baer Vs Max Schmeling
    Jack Sharkey Vs Jim Maloney
     
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  3. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Seen, all 4 fights were entertaining.
    Cheers. Any others?
     
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  4. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Find, say 2-3 divisions you want to discover and find 2-3 fighters in each or an era and then watch what you can and then from there it will expand to other fighters and fights.
     
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  5. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Seen these?
    Johnson Vs Ketchell (more a spectacle than anything else)
    Willard Vs Dempsey
    Dempsey Vs Firpo
    Dempsey Vs Sharkey
    Sharkey Vs Carnera I
    Louis Vs Schmeling I and II

    I posted some lower weight ones above too, though they'e mostly just highlights
     
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  6. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    The British Pathe and British Movietone uploads some high quality clips from newsreels. Always pretty short, but worth checking out

    This one was a brawl, not one for the purists.
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  8. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Yeah, a list of 10 keystone fights per decade could be interesting.
     
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  9. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I'd say that's thread worthy
     
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  10. Tonto62

    Tonto62 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Is it the title "historian " that you want?
     
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  11. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I've seen bits I'll look for the whole thing tonight.
    Yes, of course.
    Yup great little scrap.
    Nah I'll give it a look, I've seen bits but not all of it
    Yes.
     
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  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    We had a Super 8 and our little town library had the Dempsey-Tunney fights. Of course I had read about them. No YouTube then. What a thrill.
     
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  13. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Movie Raging Bull
     
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  14. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Dude we want to make and keep new fans. Don't make him watch those. He'll go running for the door.
     
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  15. klompton2

    klompton2 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    If you want to be a boxing historian just pay your dues to IBRO and you can suddenly call yourself an expert. You dont even have to waste your time watching these videos.
     
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