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by someone090
09 Aug 2014, 17:44
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Amazing British Pathé footage released.
Replies: 5
Views: 363

Re: Amazing British Pathé footage released.

Off Topic:
High Quality footage of Gustav 'Bubi' Scholz vs Harold Johnson:
Clip starts at time mark 6 minutes 27 seconds of this video:
http://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/586544?q=
by someone090
09 Aug 2014, 16:31
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Amazing British Pathé footage released.
Replies: 5
Views: 363

Amazing British Pathé footage released.

British Pathé is known to have filmed Boxing Reels with the highest quality back in the day and they recently released lots of spectacular footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe/search?query=boxing Here for example Turpin and Robinson talking after the rematch: https://www.youtube.com/wa...
by someone090
30 May 2014, 08:21
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Biggest upset outside of Tyson v Douglas?
Replies: 29
Views: 1212

Re: Biggest upset outside of Tyson v Douglas?

ade the grenade wrote:Other than Tyson v Douglas what are some of the biggest upsets? Lewis v Rahman?
Max Baer vs James Braddock
George Foreman vs Michael Moorer
Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson I
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Frankie Randall I
by someone090
01 May 2014, 11:38
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Live Fast, Die Young: The Life and Times of Harry Greb
Replies: 170
Views: 8162

Re: Live Fast, Die Young: The Life and Times of Harry Greb

Book Weight........ 3.3 lbs. Pages................. 716 Current Amazon Book Rating....... #603,913 There is a lot of information in this book, but the Newspaper Reports in this book were 'selected versions' by the Author. There are many conflicting Newspaper Articles about Harry Greb, that are oppo...
by someone090
13 Apr 2014, 12:40
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: His Greatest Hour?
Replies: 176
Views: 4000

Re: His Greatest Hour?

Tomasino wrote:Tough, I almost said Golota because he destroyed him but the best he faced IMO was Evander Holyfield


George Foreman
Joe Frazier I


Henry Maske
by someone090
12 Apr 2014, 13:57
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: His Greatest Hour?
Replies: 176
Views: 4000

Re: His Greatest Hour?

gilgamesh wrote:Probably Icing the iron chinned Dick Tiger with that vicious hook.

Virgil Hill
Frank Tate I believe.

Gustav Scholz
by someone090
11 Apr 2014, 12:41
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Sparring tales and gym legends
Replies: 127
Views: 16192

Re: Sparring tales and gym legends

Freddie Roach once trained De La Hoya and saw him sparring with the late Edwin Valero and the story goes that Valero beat Oscar up a little bit and Roach saw there that he cannot deal with southpaws very well. So later he sent Pacquiao, another southpaw, to war with Oscar.
by someone090
14 Mar 2014, 13:38
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Fighters with the most guts
Replies: 43
Views: 1803

Re: Fighters with the most guts

Gatti
Michael Katsidis
Hagler
LaMotta
Harry Greb
Evander Holyfield
Joe Grim
Juan Manuel Marquez
Ali
Frazier
by someone090
27 Feb 2014, 13:46
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Can anyone identify this classic Los Angeles boxing match??
Replies: 49
Views: 2200

Re: Can anyone identify this classic Los Angeles boxing match??

Maybe it is Ruben Olivares vs Jose Cervantes.

EDIT: not possible, just saw it was a 10 rounder.
by someone090
26 Feb 2014, 13:04
Forum: Boxing History
Topic: Henry Maske
Replies: 20
Views: 691

Re: Henry Maske

Henry Maske was an excellent boxer, probably one of the best 3 or 4 boxers ever to come out of Germany, next to Schmeling, Rocchigiani and Gustav Scholz. Personally I think Maske was better than Sven Ottke. Ottke was moving around, moving away a lot while relying on the judges. I hate to repeat it c...