Top 5 Best Boxing/Boxer Documentaries of All Time

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  1. briniciodeltoro

    briniciodeltoro New Member Full Member

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    Went through all of HBOs Legendary Nights series and wondered why there weren't more shows following the same template...
     
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  2. fireal221

    fireal221 Member Full Member

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    Good call... I have always wondered the same thing. I was always surprised they never made one on Duran/Leonard with 'no mas' being the focal point. If you had to pick one night/fight to see added to that particular series, which would it be?
     
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  3. EverLast

    EverLast Well-Known Member Full Member

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    When we were kings, Tyson, Facing Ali
     
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  4. beefman180

    beefman180 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I really want them to do another Legendary Nights series when the 10 year-anniversary of those shows run around.

    Could do:
    Hopkins/Taylor fights
    Hopkins/Pascal 2
    Pac man/Marquez
    Floyd/Hatton

    Just a few ideas.
     
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  5. Dizzle

    Dizzle Active Member Full Member

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    Assault in the ring is a good one. Facing Ali is good too,
     
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  6. LeonardEllerbe

    LeonardEllerbe Guest

    For the next legendary nights they should do

    Gatti/ward
    Roy Jones/ Tarver
    Mosley/magarito
    Hopkins/trinidad.
     
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  7. Kingkazim

    Kingkazim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Beyond the glory: Hopkins, SRL, Foreman and others.

    Also ESPN have "In this corner" which at only ten mins long but cover Pep, Duran, Robinson, Armstrong etc
     
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  8. beefman180

    beefman180 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Good picks. :deal
     
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  9. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    They should do more episodes, only this time without the myths and exaggerations which pollute boxing forums.

    I'd like to see episodes on older fights. More interesting to me to see an episode on a fight from the 70s and 80s than to relive a fight from a couple years ago.
     
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  10. briniciodeltoro

    briniciodeltoro New Member Full Member

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    Gatti/ward
    Roy Jones/ Tarver
    Mosley/magarito
    Hopkins/trinidad

    Are very very solid choices! Wow. I'd even suggest:

    Pac/Oscar
    Klitch/Lewis
    Castillo/Corrales (best fight I've ever seen period)
    Mario Lopez/ Zack Morris as a bonus feature
     
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  11. ThePunchingBag

    ThePunchingBag Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Castillo Corrales was not on HBO iirc.
     
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  12. briniciodeltoro

    briniciodeltoro New Member Full Member

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    Nor was Lopez vs Morris. But possibly HBO could be persuaded to by the rights.
     
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  13. Thread Stealer

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    Sugar Ray Robinson: Bright Lights & Dark Shadows of a Champion is one of the best boxing documentaries I've seen.

    Ring of Fire & After the Last Round are two very good, although depressing, boxing docs.
     
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  14. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    When We Were Kings
    Facing Ali
    Tyson
    Assault in the Ring
    Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
     
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  15. ravtrav

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    I dont think its on HBO but "Kassim the dream" is a great documentary.
     
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