Suppose................

[witherspoon]

A breakthrough in scientific research leads to the discovery of a technique which will reconstitute the collective body of literature, combined with some kind of tap into genetic memory*, into a Blu-Ray quality video file of any boxing match that ever took place under marquis of queensbury rules.
But it will only work once.
What would you choose to see?**

*whatever you are thinking at this point, just go with it. Trust me.

**anybody who selects a fight which already exists in watchable black and white deserves an angry look
anybody who selects a fight which exists in full colour should be shot

My personal choice would be Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries. Two fighters I would love to have seen in their day. I would settle for watching one of them at his best against the other coming off a big layoff. Also I think that Johnson's style of fighting is particularly distorted by those old grainy films, as I assume he used alot of subtle feints and defensive blocks that you just don't see.

[The End]

I thought there was footage of Johnson Jefferies

[Ezzard]

I think you really have to look at a fight that shows off either Sam Langford, Harry Greb or Benny Leonard

[Goodnight, Irene]

Greb-Tunney I FOR SURE.

[Ezzard]

Got to be right up there.

[raylawpc]

Jeffries-Sharkey title fight, 1899.

[BoxBuzz]

Maxie Rosenbloom vs Harry Greb

[The End]

Langford vs Johnson
Langford vd Walcott