Top 5 fighters who you would like to see film of

-Booker and Williams from the Black Murderer's Row
-prime 40s WW SRR
-prime 40s Willie Pep
-prime 40s Ezzard Charles

 

Liston vs Machen on youtube

 

We have a great film of greb lol

 

forgot Bob

 

it is, you should check it out right away, the film is great

 

I would love to see any of the Black Murderer's Row fighters, but most of all I would want to see Archie Moore vs. Jack Chase, Bert Lytell, Curtis Sheppard, Lloyd Marshall, Holman Williams, and Jimmy Bivins. I also would have loved to see those first couple fights between Bivins and Ezzard Charles. The possibilities are literally endless.

 

Most of the names have already be mentioned so I'm not gonna do a list.

I would really like to see footage of Ossie Harris though.

Fought lots of guys people would call ATGs,
had 101 fights with a record of 45-51-1.
Only knocked out 11 times and most of those were late, and I imagine contentious.

The thing I'm really interested in is his 3 fights with Jake Lamotta. He lost all 3 but was robbed at least once. 2 SD 1 UD.

I imagine that, based on the way Lamotta fights, they were absolute wars.

 

I guess that the holy grail would be John L Sullivan or Harry Greb.

 

Prime Bob Fitzsimmons
Prime John L. Sullivan
Prime James Jeffries
Prime Harry Greb

 

Barbados Joe Walcott would be one close to my heart.

 

OK, I will throw a sub question at you all, since people have their Sullivan heads on at the moment.

If you could have film of any John L Sullivan fight, which would you choose?

 

That would be a good call, but I would then ask myself whether I should have picked something from Sullivan's prime.

 

Prime Burley
John L.
Pre-Toledo Dempsey
Prime Packy McFarland
Tiger Flowers

 

How about his fights against Paddy Ryan?