Firstly, these are the ones for which footage is long sought after but not extant as far as we know: Ali vs. Witherspoon Mayweather vs. Morales Golovkin vs. Kovalev Mayweather vs. Whitaker Spence vs. Broner Klitschko vs. Klitschko Mayweather vs. Spence Lewis vs. Tyson (as teenagers) Liston vs. Foreman Crawford vs. Bradley I'm sure there are more holy grails out there (which I'll be kicking myself about for not remembering, no doubt), but these are the top ten I could compile after an hour or so's trawling online. Any seeing the light of day would be massive finds. Here are some that folks may not realize do exist: Pacquiao vs. Khan Inoue vs. Tanaka Golovkin vs. Mosley McCallum vs. Hearns García vs. Maidana Valero vs. Morales Mayweather vs. Spadafora Porter vs. Mosley Holyfield vs. Tua Durán vs. Benn Chávez vs. Mosley Haney vs. Stevenson Toney vs. McClellan Barrera vs. Quigg Pascal vs. Beterbiev (note: in some cases it may be only a minute or two - and in many, is low quality - but something > nothing) Looking forward to growing out both lists and hopefully scratching a few off the former. Videos of the latter below.
Pacquiao vs. Khan This content is protected Inoue vs. Tanaka This content is protected Golovkin vs. Mosley This content is protected McCallum vs. Hearns This content is protected García vs. Maidana This content is protected
Valero vs. Morales This content is protected Mayweather vs. Spadafora This content is protected Porter vs. Mosley This content is protected Holyfield vs. Tua This content is protected Durán vs. Benn This content is protected
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Well pretty much any Greb footage is practically El Dorado and Shangri-La rolled into one. People would lose their minds over him whacking a heavy bag, let alone the few supposedly filmed bouts of his career (most notably Tunney and I forget the other two). Sparring video would be massive. It would give a far deeper understanding of the fighter he was than we have going by the few moving images of him known to exist (a minute of half-assed shadowboxing) and contemporary written accounts.
Apparently this footage of John Scully sparring Roy Jones Jr didn’t see the light of day publicly until 2012: - This content is protected James Toney sparring Danny Green, pts 1 and 2: - This content is protected This content is protected
Until about a year or so ago it seemed that Ali’s exhibition vs Doug Jones in 1966 might not have existed on film - then it popped up on the site called Smooth Legends - an indication of hope for other yet to be seen footage eventually seeing the light of day. I was going to link the footage but upon searching the site wasn’t coming up. I hope that haven’t pulled the plug.
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You had me so excited for Foreman vs. Liston thinking that was something substantial and not...one jab and two uppercuts in a loop for ten seconds. The rest of those are tremendous contributions, though!
To avert building false expectations straight out of the gates, no film has surfaced to date and I don’t know if it was even filmed but Liston did spar a young Joe Bugner (see pics below). As with Liston sparring Foreman, we can only hope that footage might turn up one day. https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/...ugner-left-heavyweight-champion-21768724.htmlh https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/...ugner-sparring-dominick-bufanos-21783793.html
