WBSS Fantasy Middleweight Legends 2020

[Enlightened-One]

From purely a video game perspective, the person (be it the games console or the gamer) playing as Sugar Ray Robinson, cannot possibly lose (without the loss being intentional), because he’s so damn over-powered.

[ewenhay]

Can they not set it up as cpu v cpu and leave the game to it?

[Onetimeonly]

Can they not set it up as cpu v cpu and leave the game to it?

Of course that's what they're doing. Just always funny to watch eo botch the simplest of things.

[ewenhay]

I thought so!

As you were..

[Ruthless-RKO]

SRR has stopped Vargas.

On to the next one.

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Vargas was cannon fodder.

There can't be a boxing fan that has ever existed and I include Vargas himself, that has ever fantasised about Vargas fighting Robinson.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Vargas was cannon fodder.

There can't be a boxing fan that has ever existed and I include Vargas himself, that has ever fantasised about Vargas fighting Robinson.

Of course. They have to have some ‘recent’ names to balance the game. Plus it’s who ever is in the game.

[margaret thatcher]

I don't think they even planned to have Vargas at first , look at the first poster lol

I'll give him credit though, it was a fun brawl slugfest

[watsupdoc87]

I won money on Tyson after Ali knocked him down fuk all else to get on apart from belerusian and Guatemala football. And ping pong

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I don't think they even planned to have Vargas at first , look at the first poster lol

I'll give him credit though, it was a fun brawl slugfest

Oh yes, just noticed.

Vargas was definitely an afterthought.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Hagler stopped Pavlik in rd8.

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Massive upset as Wright stops Leonard in rd9

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Monzon & LaMotta Lock Horns in Tonight’s eWBSS Quarter-Final - Press Release

Carlos ‘Shotgun’ Monzon vs ‘Raging Bull’ Jake LaMotta is Thursday’s mouthwatering match-up in the last quarter-final of the ‘eWBSS Middleweight Legends Tournament’ broadcast at 7pm (UK) on World Boxing Super Series Facebook.

The battle, simulated on EA Sports ‘Fight Night Champion’, will decide who meets tournament surprise, Ronald ‘Winky’ Wright in Saturday’s semi-final.

Monzon and LaMotta are not among us anymore, but their names and fame will never be forgotten by the fans of the sport.

Carlos Monzon held the undisputed world middleweight championship for 7 years and is widely recognized as one of the best middleweights – and across all divisions – ever to step inside the squared circle. The Argentinian retired in 1977 as a champion with one of the most impressive boxings records of 100 fights with 87 wins, 9 draws, 1 NC and 59 KO’s – his three only defeats came early in the career and they were all avenged!

Monzon was known for his speed, punching power, and never-ending work rate, and as able to adapt to whoever was put in front of him during a career of 14 years.

Tonight Monzon’s eSport character is going to adjust to Jake LaMotta’s ditto.

‘Raging Bull’ LaMotta is broadly acknowledged as of one of the toughest fighters of all time and for having fought the great Sugar Ray Robinson on six occasions – win only one victory for the bull from the Bronx. His chin was legendary, and his aggressive and relentless style embodied everything brutal about the sport.

In 1949, LaMotta defeated France’s Marcel Cerdan for the World Middleweight Championship. He kept his champion status until Sugar Ray Robinson ended his reign at the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre of boxing in 1951. LaMotta took a horrible beating and the fight was stopped in the 13th round …

LaMotta’s life is the basis for one of the best boxing movies of all time, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980).

The ‘eWBSS Middleweight Legends Tournament’ roster:

Sugar Ray Robinson (1), Sugar Ray Leonard (2), Marvin Hagler (3), Carlos Monzon (4) , Jake LaMotta, Ronald Wright, Kelly Pavlik & Fernando Vargas.

Quarter-Finals:

Ray Robinson vs Fernando Vargas, March 30 – Robinson W – KO5
Marvin Hagler vs Kelly Pavlik, March 31 – Hagler W – KO8
Ray Leonard vs Ronald Wright, April 1
Carlos Monzon vs Jake LaMotta, April 2

The entire ‘eWBSS Middleweight Legends’ tournament will be streamed on the World Boxing Super Series Facebook page at 7pm (GMT) every day from Monday March 30 until the final on Sunday April 5.

The eWBSS tournaments, simulated on EA Sports ‘Fight Night Champion’, are created by the real World Boxing Super Series to provide some much-needed relief and entertainment for fight fans around the world during these testing times.

Watch the previous eWBSS Heavyweight Legends fights on YouTube here.

#StayHomeSaveLives #ProtectYourselfAtAllTimes

[watsupdoc87]

Can get just under evens for monzon win. Gotta bet on something

[paddy chavez]

So it's the old fight night game well it that case I'll pick Hagler he was extremely tough with great stamina which what it comes down to in the game.

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Monzon vs. LaMotta

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Carlos Monzon outpoints Jake LaMotta in a 12-round war, 115-112, 115-112, 114-113!

Monzon will face Wright in the SF.

[oogiebe]

Monzon vs LaMotta. I can't even imagine what a war it would be.

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Massive upset as Wright stops Leonard in rd9

That was a result I could never see.

Leonard doesn't really belong in a 160lb legends tournament, due to his lack of fights at the weight, but he was still a formidable fighter whom I cannot imagine getting KOd whilst still a 'living' fighter.

Electronic games can be weird sometimes.

[Onetimeonly]

I could see winky deserving a decision he didn't get at 60. He couldn't knock out Leonard with a baseball bat. Norris, who hit miles harder, didn't pull it off.

[Ruthless-RKO]

I don’t understand this. It’s a fkin game. What unforeseen circumstances are these?

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[Enlightened-One]

I don’t understand this. It’s a fkin game. What unforeseen circumstances are these?

Image rights.

EA Sports are allowed to use Hagler’s name and likeness. The WBSS and/or the Sauerland brothers aren’t.

So perhaps whomever own Hagler’s image rights forced the withdrawal.

Part of the reason why EA Sports didn't bother with a sequel to Fight Night Champion, was because of the cost and complexity associated with including real-life fighters in their game.

So they moved onto the UFC franchise instead, because they acquired the license on the cheap and all they needed to do was deal with Zuffa/UFC/Dana White, rather than directly with the MMA fighters.