So I Have Been Working on My Boxing Collection

reznick · Apr 25, 2017

Bonecrusher said: ↑

I have an obscene amount of content.

I recorded everything for a very long time! I mean everything!

I have every episode of Tuesday Night Fights ever.

I used to order and record every PPV

Never missed an HBO, SHOWTIME, ABC, NBC, CBS, ESPN, Prime Sports etc etc card.

I'd record sportscenter daily as well as CNN or whatever and if anything boxing was on, interviews, weigh ins you name it I'd keep it. For big fights I'd have months worth of blurbs and quick interviews. I'd always check the Letterman, Leno and all the talk circuits if there was a boxer I'd record..

Anything not available on US television I had trading partners all over the world sending me things in exchange for things they couldn't acquire or wanted to acquire..

I had the sport on lockdown. Back in those days all the trading of fight tapes was advertised in the backs of the boxing magazines, this was all pre-Internet

After getting married, my wife and I shortly had 2 children here which slowed down the boxing recording but I still watched as much as I could and never missed the hbo fights or the good PPVs. I probably stopped recording after Tito - Jones maybe that feels like one of my final recordings. I continued to watch all of the big fights like I said never missed a Pacquiao or Mayweather fight but I had stopped recording at that point which always felt weird after a fight I always felt like man I need this on tape because it was just second nature

The kicker is of course, all my fights though being safely stored inside my home, with the quality completely intact as it was then, as many know VHS even the best quality in this day of HDTV still leaves a lot to be desired, although my recordings look much better than the majority of what you'll find on YouTube
I've just sadly never had the time to transfer them over.. every once in a while I'll break out one of my still fully operational high tech VCRs (LOL) and hook it up and watch some of the old tapes.. but like I said hooking up a VCR to a 70 inch HDTV doesn't quite look like it used to on the old tube

I'll never part with my collection but at some point maybe I can move some over to more modern formats and share with others..

Anyway I just thought I'd share with the people here commenting on their boxing collections
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You might enjoy the quality more on a laptop then a 70 inch screen.
Sounds like you have quite the collection! If you ever do upload stuff, you have a viewer right here!

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