Which fights in history would have caused meltdown on here?

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  1. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    TKO6 has huge backlash anyway
     
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  2. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Interesting. Please explain.
     
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  3. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Schmeling - Louis (#1 by far)

    Louis - Conn
    Johnson - Jeffries
    Tunney - Dempsey
    Willard - Johnson

    Ali-Liston II too.
     
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  4. Mendoza

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    I saw it in a large crowd at a race track. Tyson fans were yelling fix. Others said Holy went low, but he didn't. Hilarious.
     
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  5. GOAT Primo Carnera

    GOAT Primo Carnera Member of the PC Fan Club Full Member

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    Remember, even your twice removed vegan cousin knows the fellow who bit the other boxers ear off.
    The amount of blather in the general would be absolute out of proportion.
     
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  6. sweetsci

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    When I typed that I'd forgotten that the Machen-Folley draw was before Johansson - Machen. But my thinking was that the undefeated number one contender goes over to Sweden and gets blown out by a guy that was probably fairly unknown by a lot of Americans. So I think there'd be plenty of discussion after this one - arguing the merits of Johansson, the backlash against Machen, the actions of the referee, what lies in the future... Maybe not a forum meltdown now that I think more about it, but certainly lots of discussion.
     
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  7. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    The more i think about it, both Leonard v Duran fights would have caused havoc.
     
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  8. swagdelfadeel

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    Always thought that result was a fluke myself tbh.
     
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  9. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    I could be mistaken, as it was slightly before my time, but I'm pretty sure there were at least a handful of posters here for that one that are still around.
     
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  10. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Surely not.
     
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  11. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I don't know I've only been on here since March
     
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  12. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    I've been here since 2002, but I'm not entirely sure, either. I know the forum was around in 2001, just not sure when.
     
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  13. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    It is tragic that so much was lost in the server crash all those years ago.
    I didn't register until 2012 but have read these forums from way back.
    I even remember the days of Revolver winding up SuzieQ.
     
    BlackCloud, Jun 8, 2019
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  14. janitor

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    That might be a good non championship example.

    There would have been people who thought that Nova was the goods, and others who weren't so sure.

    The latter would doubtless have hailed the result as a vindication.
     
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  15. Stevie G

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    Johnson-Jeffries
    Louis-Schmelling I
    Louis-Schmelling-II
    Frazier-Ali I
    Ali-Foreman
     
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