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What a fight Bowe v Golata II was. It was on ESPN Classic last night.

How the ref (or Bowe`s corner) didn`t stop that fight I`ll never know. Bowe took a terrible beating and showed massive heart to stay in there.

Golota was a rough house, intentionally butting Bowe early on and repeatedly hitting him low.

Terrific battle.

The greatest heavyweight non-title fight since Foreman-Lyle.

Agreed, it is one of my all time favourite heavyweight fights. I still can't believe what Golota did. ESPN showed Foreman Vs Holyfield a couple of weeks ago, that was another brilliant fight. Big George who was derided as fat and out of shape looked in far better condition than the majority of todays heavies. ESPN is a good channel.

There are some good classics on Eurosport as well-saw Lonnie Beasley against AL green yesterday as well as others.

Terminator666 wrote:There are some good classics on Eurosport as well-saw Lonnie Beasley against AL green yesterday as well as others.

I watched, and enjoy, that.

Good to see (hear) Bob Mee riding solo on that as well without being hinered by Houldsworth.

Julio Cesar Green i meant. ;;-)

Yeah Classic Boxing is great, and if you get a chance scroll through and you may pick up the odd gem on Five USA and Eurosport as well.

One-off shows on ESPN Classic are brilliant too, there was one last week about power punchers, featuring Tyson v Thomas and a few other bouts

Fast becoming my favourite channel

Caught Ibeabuchi- Tua on that last night, it was nice to see two Heavyweights actually throwing lots of punches and not holding, good scrap.

And also nice to see ESPN starting to open their vaults a little, after all we've seen Ali-Foreman/Frazier plenty of times.

Bin some good fights for those missing out on them including bowe - holyfield, Gatti-mayweather, paz vs haughen, holyfield-qawi, holyfield-dokes, gatti vs ward, holyfield-czyz, lewis - lionel butler

also in next few days and weeks

roy jones vs johnson 94 thu 12.45
judah vs mabuza 2011 fri 12.05
paz vs honeyghan sat 12.05
tua vs rahman 28/09 12.05

also after sky sports 3 boxing special michael watson who was a great fighter cant believe how good he actually was and boxed greats such as Mccallum, benn etc

Nice one Alex, saw they have stuff on every night....

Pazienza, Chavez v Whittaker coming up too - brilliant channel, and not PPV like some :)

Captain Hook wrote:Nice one Alex, saw they have stuff on every night....


Pazienza, Chavez v Whittaker coming up too - brilliant channel, and not PPV like some :)

eh? I thought you had to pay for espn?

It's ESPN Classic mate...

just watching roy jones jr fight vs johnson now. maybe my all time favourite fighter

sat down to watch rjj and its junior jones the bantamweight - wtf? whoever's job it is at espn to pick the classic fights would need to wake up a bit

smcb80 wrote:sat down to watch rjj and its junior jones the bantamweight - wtf? whoever's job it is at espn to pick the classic fights would need to wake up a bit

fornicate mine never taped who was it against? who was his fight with? He was the only guy to beat Barrera up early in his carreer, Morales stoppage of him was quality showed just what a great fighter he was!! T

aye, he ko'd barrera, but it was recorded as a dq i think?

he was fighting johnson for the bantanweight title, wba i think. wasn't a bad scrap actually, but espn have it advertised as rjj.