Who has the best boxing collection of fights ???

Jerry Lafayette

 

ESPN’s vault, but they discovered after they got fleeced that the rights paperwork (which would have allowed them to show those fights) wasn’t worth the paper it was written on .

 

Captain Tony Fosco wife was asking for 100,000.00 no piece mail or partial buys. His was the best. You can see the legendary Hank Kaplan collection for free. He donated it to the Brooklyn library.Great guy. Steve case ( klompton ) likey gave his collection to his son

 

Have they said what they are going to do with that collection?

 

No but there’s nothing they can do with it, really, except leave it in a vault collecting dust.

They don’t own the rights to a significant mass of the collection. Compared to what they paid, they have no value. Certainly not enough to pay a crew of people to go through and check each film put it on eBay to make a few thousand dollars when they paid $100M. I doubt the sale of the ones they don’t own the rights to would amount to what it would pay to have the collection gone through to sell them.

 

That’s a shame. I take it that’s why they only showed a small portion on Classic. Who owns the rights, generally speaking? I could see post 1970 or so them belonging to networks or promoters. Seems like the rights owners could monetize them on YouTube, rather than having them just sit there and generate dust. If “they” could sort out who owns the rights, that is.

 

He hasnt posted in a long time ... did he pass ?? not understanding that part you wrote .. if so , i didnt know

 

he hasn't past, nor I'm I sure he has an extensive collection,

he certain has some, he has stated so on many an occasion, but I never understood him to be a 'Collector' of Fight Footage in the Extensive sense

Maybe he is.

 

He says he has the best and biggedt collection of rare fights in the world. And hes still alive he posts on the boxrec forum once in a while.

 

yeah I said he's still alive, not sure why people thought he died... Steve Lott died, not Steve Compton.

I never ever remember him saying that about his Fight Collection, I always knew he some/many, but never knew it to be in the 'numbers' of Serious Collector.

has he got Lists of what he's got, does he advertise it anywhere, for Sales or Copies???

 

That’s the unanswered question. Presumably, legally, someone does own the rights to each fight, but there’s no way to track that down in a way that could stand up in court if it a rightful owner came forward after it aired and challenged that ESPN was using/profiting from its property.

What Jacobs/Cayton did was find old films — maybe it was in an attic or a collection handed down from great grandpa — and buy them and get whoever sold it to them to sign a document granting rights … which they in most cases didn’t own (or at least couldn’t be proved to be the owner of) and considered that a done deal. ESPN didnt’ do its diligence, just took those waivers/bills of sale at face value.