Suppose................
Posted: 01 Mar 2012, 03:18
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.
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.