Golden Ticket...
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Goodnight, Irene
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Golden Ticket...
Give me the highest-grossing fantasy fight you can conjur, in two categories...
Heavyweight
Non-Heavyweight
Im going with...
Dempsey-Tyson and Robinson-Leonard.
Heavyweight
Non-Heavyweight
Im going with...
Dempsey-Tyson and Robinson-Leonard.
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Goodnight, Irene
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Re: Golden Ticket...
I can see a field day for the promoters with the taglines.
Dempsey-Tyson...
"Fire & Brimstone."
"The Baddest MEN on the planet."
"Don King vs. Tex Rickard...oh, and Tyson against Dempsey, too."
Robinson-Leonard...
"The Sweetest Thing."
"Sugar Hit."
"One Lump Or Two (Hundred)?"
Dempsey-Tyson...
"Fire & Brimstone."
"The Baddest MEN on the planet."
"Don King vs. Tex Rickard...oh, and Tyson against Dempsey, too."
Robinson-Leonard...
"The Sweetest Thing."
"Sugar Hit."
"One Lump Or Two (Hundred)?"
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Ali vs the young Tyson would probally do 5 million Ppvs easily. Just imagine the before the fight antics. SRL Vs Oscar would do really well also.
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Goodnight, Irene
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Yeah, Ali-Tyson and Leonard-De La Hoya were two of the first fights I thought of.
It was tough to choose bouts which didnt include De La Hoya and Ali (among many others, of course), such was their popularity.
Sullivan-Jeffries would have been immense to a certain generation.
It was tough to choose bouts which didnt include De La Hoya and Ali (among many others, of course), such was their popularity.
Sullivan-Jeffries would have been immense to a certain generation.
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Goodnight, Irene
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Re: Golden Ticket...
Can you imagine Leonard at the negotiating table with Robinson or De La Hoya (especially Robinson)!? The line from Jaws springs to mind.scallum wrote:Ali vs the young Tyson would probally do 5 million Ppvs easily. Just imagine the before the fight antics. SRL Vs Oscar would do really well also.
"You're gonna need a bigger table."
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Joe Frazier Vs Mike Tyson
Joe Frazier vs Jack Dempsey
Sonny Liston vs George Foreman
Joe Frazier vs Jack Dempsey
Sonny Liston vs George Foreman
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Nelson Sanchez II
Moore Charles IV
Jeffries vs Johnson Prime
Dempsey vs Johnson
Sorry, I didn't stay within the parameters...lol
Moore Charles IV
Jeffries vs Johnson Prime
Dempsey vs Johnson
Sorry, I didn't stay within the parameters...lol
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I would pay good money to just see the negotiationsGoodnight, Irene wrote:Can you imagine Leonard at the negotiating table with Robinson or De La Hoya (especially Robinson)!? The line from Jaws springs to mind.scallum wrote:Ali vs the young Tyson would probally do 5 million Ppvs easily. Just imagine the before the fight antics. SRL Vs Oscar would do really well also.
"You're gonna need a bigger table."
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Re: Golden Ticket...
Indeed. They may've even outdone the fight itself!
Rickard and King in the same room arguing purse splits, gate-takings, and PPV numbers would be another spectacle of high drama.
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SaadOffTheDeck
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Johnson/Dempsey- Assuming the hypothetical allows technological advances in the time. If those two met at the height of Dempsey's popularity and Johnson's hate with the world watching it would have been insane.
Leonard/Mayweather- Floyd has somehow turned out to be a bigger PPV star than Oscar. Though he doesn't sell as many tickets, a fight with he and Leonard would be huge.
Leonard/Mayweather- Floyd has somehow turned out to be a bigger PPV star than Oscar. Though he doesn't sell as many tickets, a fight with he and Leonard would be huge.
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Re: Golden Ticket...
I dont think it would have the same promotional angles as Leonard-De La Hoya, though.
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SaadOffTheDeck
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I think it would be perceived by the general public as more competitive. It's alarming how many buy into Floyd's claims of being the greatest ever. As far as promotional angles, good vs bad plays better than good vs good. Unless Leonard & Oscar pulled a political type campaign and dug up each others dirty secrets.
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If Johnson won that fight, they might finally have gotten him.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Johnson/Dempsey- Assuming the hypothetical allows technological advances in the time. If those two met at the height of Dempsey's popularity and Johnson's hate with the world watching it would have been insane.
Leonard/Mayweather- Floyd has somehow turned out to be a bigger PPV star than Oscar. Though he doesn't sell as many tickets, a fight with he and Leonard would be huge.
At the height of Dempsey's popularity, Johnson wouldnt have made it out of the arena had he won (which I dont think he wouldve, mind).