ESPN classic - 'new' fights over the next few days

[chinny]

Not new obviously, but I've not noticed them shown here before. Holyfield-Dokes barnburner then Holy-Foreman, Holy-Bowe and more over the next week

[Bricks]

Yeah i mentioned it elsewhere lets hope its a sign of things to come. They also had holy qawi 1 and 2 and deleon as well. Id love to see them show iran barkley fights

[chinny]

They also had holy qawi 1 and 2 and deleon as well.

Really?

I haven't seen those yet, damnit

[bennie]

Holyfield must be one of the few active fighters who has done 15 rounds, and what a 15 rounds! It makes me wince just thinking about it.

[Bricks]

I liked the dokes match a few days ago. They are going to show the Foreman one as well today.

[Chambers2]

I watched Pryor Vs Arguello II on ESPN's classsic boxing the other day, excellent fight

[IRLangmaid25]

They are also going to be showing Lennox Lewis' fights in the 1990s against the likes of Oliver McCall and Tommy "the Duke" Morrison along with Evander Holyfield's famous fight with Michael Moorer will feature the famous impassioned speech of Moorer's trainer and current ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas, and they have been using in some either original commentary or recording their own over it with current ESPN commentator Joe Tessitore and former Middleweight and current trainer John "Iceman" Scully. Plus I have been scoring the fights I have watched.

[alexpaterson]

Is it full fights?

[Bricks]

you got ike-tua coming up!!! 8)

[DavidPayne]

I'm 5 rounds in to Foreman v Holyfield...you forget how mobile, quick, busy Evander was.

So pleased they're showing the entire fight. Not rounds 1, 5, 8 and 11 as per norm.

[orbtastic]

Do ESPN have HD?

[chinny]

Is it full fights?

Yep

[chinny]

Do ESPN have HD?

Yes but none of these fights were filmed in HD. The classic channel is not HD

[orbtastic]

Do ESPN have HD?

Yes but none of these fights were filmed in HD. The classic channel is not HD

That's what I was getting at. SKY fudge non HD footage on HD broadcasts by framing it in a smaller box. Other SKY HD channels show non HD source material by doing the same thing.

Obviously on the movie channels, Lean did not record Laurence of Arabia in HD but the studio have made a HD recording available.

I checked ESPN's website to see what they listed and "classic" is not in HD but then it wouldn't be for obvious reasons. I just wondered on non SD broadcasts what the quality was like, but for ANOTHER 9 quid a month I'm not really prepared to find out, it's just not worth it. I have most of the fights anyway, if not all.

[Captain Hook]

Some crackers.....Had all Bowe V Holy and Moorer v Holy this week......fantastic channel

[Roars Like Me]

After watching Bowe/Holy again, it came to me how fit Bowe was (Holy goes without saying).
He was throwing loads of punches per round and when you saw him on his stool all the way through to the last, he wasn't even breathing heavy. Stark contast to the Zubmrun comeback
He was techincally really good to watch, I would have liked to have seen him vs Buster Douglas when they were both fit and motivated, that would have been a cracker.

[Captain Hook]

A fantastic fighter on his day, but sadly those days were few and far between.

Waste......him v Lennox could have been epic, even a series...

[Chambers2]

I watched Holy Vs Qawi (that I'd Sky +'d) last night, what a frickin fight that is! Both of them are as hard as nails, how on earth they both made it to the end of the 15th I'll never know

[bennie]

Qawi swallowed it in the rematch. He didn't fancy another 15 rounds like that whereas Holyfield did.

[Chambers2]

Qawi swallowed it in the rematch. He didn't fancy another 15 rounds like that whereas Holyfield did.

I can see why, it was brutal

[Bricks]

Some crackers.....Had all Bowe V Holy and Moorer v Holy this week......fantastic channel

C'mon mate we have had about 3 and a half years of endless Tyson fights so it is a relief to get some "new" fights featuring Holyfield,Lewis and the 90's HW scene.

Its crazy I used to have ESPN classic from Europe before we got our own English version, and all they showed on ESPN classic France between 2003-2005 was the usual Rumble in the jungle plus 1950's Middleweight fights and only the same 5-6....very odd.

Id like to see this being a start, ESPN should re rerun American clubshows from the early 80's which featured just about every american start of the decade (Mancini, Lockridge,Barkley,Curry, McCrory,Mayweather to name very few)

By the way you guys got Bruno-Lewis today and Golota-Bowe II on in a few days.

[matko]

Some crackers.....Had all Bowe V Holy and Moorer v Holy this week......fantastic channel

C'mon mate we have had about 3 and a half years of endless Tyson fights so it is a relief to get some "new" fights featuring Holyfield,Lewis and the 90's HW scene.

Its crazy I used to have ESPN classic from Europe before we got our own English version, and all they showed on ESPN classic France between 2003-2005 was the usual Rumble in the jungle plus 1950's Middleweight fights and only the same 5-6....very odd.

Id like to see this being a start, ESPN should re rerun American clubshows from the early 80's which featured just about every american start of the decade (Mancini, Lockridge,Barkley,Curry, McCrory,Mayweather to name very few)

By the way you guys got Bruno-Lewis today and Golota-Bowe II on in a few days.

They got Vinny Paz vs Greg Haughen in the next few days which is meant to be a barn stormer??

[bennie]

Some crackers.....Had all Bowe V Holy and Moorer v Holy this week......fantastic channel

C'mon mate we have had about 3 and a half years of endless Tyson fights so it is a relief to get some "new" fights featuring Holyfield,Lewis and the 90's HW scene.

Its crazy I used to have ESPN classic from Europe before we got our own English version, and all they showed on ESPN classic France between 2003-2005 was the usual Rumble in the jungle plus 1950's Middleweight fights and only the same 5-6....very odd.

Id like to see this being a start, ESPN should re rerun American clubshows from the early 80's which featured just about every american start of the decade (Mancini, Lockridge,Barkley,Curry, McCrory,Mayweather to name very few)

By the way you guys got Bruno-Lewis today and Golota-Bowe II on in a few days.

Bowe-Golota II is the greatest heavyweight non-title fight since Foreman-Lyle.

[chinny]

Bowe-Golota II is the greatest heavyweight non-title fight since Foreman-Lyle.

Moorer - Cooper? Was that for the WBO? The WBO didn't really count back then