u see guys advertising fights and saying they are only of certain rounds like 3-6-7-8-9. my question is is wheres the rest of it? also stuff like bits and pieces of fights like graziano arnold, wheres the whole fight at? surley someone filmed it and just didnt decide to pick any 3 or 4 rounds.
The stuff you see on Arnold is because it was filmed ringside by Graziano's family with a personal camera. Those camera's only held a limited amount of film and the film was expensive so they would shoot a little bit and then stop and wait for more action to begin shooting again in order to save film, and prevent swapping out reels too frequently. In the case of professionaly shot films where the rounds are limited: In some cases more film exists but more often than not what you see is what you get. This is due to several different reasons. Sometimes the film was damaged and those rounds are now destroyed. Sometimes the film was edited down to shown in theatres as part of newsreels so it had to be considerably shorter. A lot of times those fights might be on 4 reels of film 1 reel might have the prefight and first couple of rounds, the next reel might have rounds 3 thur 7, and so on. If a reel or two gets lost then you might have the prefight and first couple of round, missing reel two, so the action picks up in 8th round. So there are a lot of reasons why these films are missing rounds.
I think that film was just edited down to its current state. Another thing to watch out for that Ive discovered in my restoration work is that many many times in those old films the rounds are mislabeled. You might have a round listed as round three that is actually round 5 and so on. Its far worse for the very very old fights. I was working on a project for the 100th anniversary of Gans-Nelson 1 (which unfortanately got destroyed by a virus and resulting computer crash ) That fight is completely out of order. The rounds are out of order, some are cut in half and each half is in a different part of the fight being shown as two seperate rounds and there is even prefight footage mixed in throughout the fight. Its a mess. That project was so difficult and so time consuming that when I lost it I gave up on it.
I had a copy of Giardello v Rivero 2 with every other round missing but managed to get the full fight from another source. great fight BTW. I think some guys deliberately edit rds of rare fights so they have at least a full version to themselves. The rare hagler footage a case in point.
