The Greatest fight I ever attended...

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    In an Article from The Ring (April 1971), the Ring staffers revive their memories of their greatest fight they ever saw:

    Nat Fleischer (Editor): Benny Leonard KO6 Ritchie Mitchell

    Nat Loubet (Managing Editor): Joe Louis KO13 Billy Conn

    Dan Daniel (Associate Editor) & Sam Taub (Contributing Editor): Jack Dempsey KO2 Angel Luis Firpo

    George Girsch (Assistant Managing Editor): Max Schmeling KO12 Joe Louis

    John Ort (Assistant Editor): Ken Buchanan W10 Donato Paduano

    Ted Carroll (Contributing Editor): Ray Robinson KO10 Randy Turpin

    Some interesting picks, what is your take on them? And if you have been to a bout, what is your Greatest fight, you ever attended?
     
  2. Duranium

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    Dont care to be original.

    Marco Antonio Barrera VS Erik Morales I
     
  3. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    FOTC or Hagler Hearns. The reason I've put two is it depends whether I want to see a long fight or a short fight.
    As for the picks in the list they're ok (I don't mean the fights are just ok/nothing special), whatever floats whomever's boat.
     
  4. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well I suspect as you went to Barrera/MoralesI you would not need to be very original, it is pretty much a given it would be most people's number one, who were there that day!

    Jammy git!
     
  5. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You went to Ali/FrazierI and Hagler/Hearns? Kudos:good
     
  6. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No. lol. I'm only 30. I didn't realise that's what you meant.

    EDIT: (Damn! Why didn't I lie?)
     
  7. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Barrera vs Morales I is the best fight I've ever seen.
     
  8. Duranium

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    i also thought you meant in general, not seen live:lol:. In that case the best fight i ever saw was Michael Brodie vs In Jin Chi I. First fight i ever bet on as well:patsch
     
  9. Son of Gaul

    Son of Gaul Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Corrales-Castillo I
    Frazier-Quarry I
     
  10. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'd have loved to have been at that. I watched it live on the telly and a million times on video, rooting for Brodie (obviously) made it that much more exciting. Chi was very hard done by at the end. That's a fight that really was a robbery.
     
  11. mcvey

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    I had a friend who was in the Navy he was on leave in the US ,went to the SRR /Turpin rematch he said it was pretty average for most of the fight,the turnaround made it dramatic, but not a good choice, I should have thought,maybe you had to be there?

    Modern fights?
    The Morales/ Barrera battles,Ward /Gatti,Corrales/Marquez,Pintor/Gomez,
    Hagler/Hearns.

    Ali/ Frazier 1 & 3.Marciano/Walcott1.Dempsey/Firpo,Louis /Conn1, SRR/Lamotta 6.Saad Muhammad /Lopez,and others.
     
  12. Manassa

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    Sanchez-Nelson is probably my favourite fight. You have the skills of the established champion versus the hunger of an underdog, close rounds, workrate, outfighting, infighting, turned tables, swollen eyes and a desparate last round knockout; everything.
     
  13. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Two of my most memorable fights I saw live was the Robinson/Turpin rematch in 1951
    at thge old Polo Grounds...Robinson cut badly ,went all out, do or die, and tkod Turpin in
    the 10th rd.. What a finish!!!
    The greatest spectacle boxing match I ever saw was March 8,1971 at MSG when I saw Joe Frazier whip Ali ...I remember walking into the lobby to purchase our tickets and
    seeing all the fur coats being worn. And that was on the men !Seriously.
    All the celebrities were there watching this epic event..I'll never forget the night and
    oc course the FIGHT...
     
  14. timmers612

    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I must be the odd duck here,,,Ali-Frazier 3, da thrilla in Manilla. I was way suprised though by John Ort's pick of Buchanan-Paduano. I have never seen the bout but the scribes at the time presented it as a rather pedistrian walk over by Kenny. Foreman-Lyle and Buchanan-Luguna 2 follow close behind.
     
  15. groove

    groove Well-Known Member Full Member

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    after a 4year lay-off. wow frazier defo beat a peak ali just like marciano in the computer fight). some of you guys have to take a look at the facts cuz ali looked peak v bonavena (his worse performance in 7 years until the 15th) :lol: a cleveland williams ali woulda done a number on joe.