Top ten fighters we can't watch today

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  1. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think there’s only a five minute clip of Jim Driscoll and as awesome as he looks it’s such a shame there’s not more.
     
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  2. KasimirKid

    KasimirKid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lew Jenkins, Eddie Booker,Jack Britton, Johnny Risko, Johnny Wilson, Tiger Jack Fox, John Henry Lewis, Tod Morgan, and Jack Chase are always on my mind. I'd love to see them as well as a lot of the guys already mentioned.
     
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  3. ChrisJS

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    I can’t think of much Beau Jack footage. That’s a shame.
     
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  4. L.Everett

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    I've always wanted to see Choyinski because he influenced a whole horde of fighters that came after, including Jack Johnson. McCoy had his corckscrew punch, and to be fair Jack Blackburn should be up there too.
     
    L.Everett, Aug 26, 2019
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  5. L.Everett

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    If he hadn't fought in England we'd probably have no footage of him. Mills getting the title shot was an injustice.
     
    L.Everett, Aug 26, 2019
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  6. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Terry McGovern
     
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  7. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    More Jack Johnson would have been sooo nice. Also, more 50s and early 60s Liston, pre-Arrington Holmes.
     
    RulesMakeItInteresting, Aug 26, 2019
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  8. L.Everett

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    Reminds me of Cleveland Williams. A lot of guys after the 40s seem to have missing footage. Willie Monroe, Gypsy Joe Harris, Curtis Cokes, LaStarza etc. I think a lot of the footage we have now from the olden days and even today will probably be lost at a higher rate than fight footage from the 30s-50s.
     
    L.Everett, Aug 26, 2019
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  9. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's a bummer, imo.

    Even more of a bummer is watching the awful video quality of way too many of the Holmes titular defenses. Especially when Larry's my favorite fighter.
     
    RulesMakeItInteresting, Aug 26, 2019
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  10. roughdiamond

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    More Billy Conn.
     
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  11. George Crowcroft

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    More Tony Zale. More Ezz. More Moore. The list is almost endless.
     
    George Crowcroft, Aug 26, 2019
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  12. George Crowcroft

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    I'm gonna do a thread on Larry. What in your mind are his best performances, aside from Ali?
     
    George Crowcroft, Aug 26, 2019
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  13. L.Everett

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    Ezzard is probably one of more underrated and forgotten fighters, a real gem of the old school. His fights with Burley would be a sight for sore eyes.
     
    L.Everett, Aug 26, 2019
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  14. L.Everett

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    Ray Mercer has to be up there. That on old man decades past his prime could punish an Olympic medalist with his jab all night long is a real testament to just how great he was. His fight with Holyfield too, it was a loss, but he went the distance. Shame we didn't get a Holmes-Foreman fight in the 90s, now there would be a battle for the ages.
     
    L.Everett, Aug 26, 2019
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  15. RulesMakeItInteresting

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    Norton, Mercer, Cooney, Leon, Bey (because of what he accomplished beforehand... his win over Page cannot be underestimated imo, just as Larry's TKO of Bey cannot be overrated at that past-prime point in his career), and Witherspoon (that last because it featured one of the most obvious and sensational displays of championship heart in boxing history and was a killer fight in itself....this isn't even keeping in mind the fact that Witherspoon later became...ehem, a two time champion of whatever).

    I would even throw in the second Spinks fight...he won that fight off-paper in the minds of over 90% of the boxing people I've spoken to. Won the championship again at the age of what...37? Back then that was extremely rare. Some might even mention the McCall fight (there are more than a few people who felt he won that fight, too, at least before the ninth round).

    I would say Ali, but like Holmes/Tyson that was something that would never have happened in either Holmes or Ali's primes.
     
    RulesMakeItInteresting, Aug 27, 2019
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