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And one fight only, what would it be?

Reading about Maxie Rosenbloom and Harry Greb, both men have 298 fights exactly on record and not one with footage, got me thinking,
If you could see only one fight which is currently unavailable, which one would you choose?
Of course the full show would be viewed in full HD with Jim Lampley and Harold Lederman doing their thing.

Obviously there will be a few candidates on the respective careers of the above 2 men but there will be countless other top fighters with little to no footage or even, otherwise well covered fighters, who have one big fight that is lost to the archives.

I'll go for 1947-05-05 - Archie Moore vs Ezzard Charles 2. The only one of their 3 bouts that was considered close.
Then I can come on here and tell you all it was a fix and Archie was the better man

Robinson/Gavilan

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Robinson/Gavilan

That'd probably be mine as well.

I'd also like to see some of Greb's biggest fights.

Jake Kilrain vs John L. Sullivan, without a doubt.

davie wrote:And one fight only, what would it be?

Reading about Maxie Rosenbloom and Harry Greb, both men have 298 fights exactly on record and not one with footage, got me thinking,
If you could see only one fight which is currently unavailable, which one would you choose?
Of course the full show would be viewed in full HD with Jim Lampley and Harold Lederman doing their thing.

Obviously there will be a few candidates on the respective careers of the above 2 men but there will be countless other top fighters with little to no footage or even, otherwise well covered fighters, who have one big fight that is lost to the archives.

I'll go for 1947-05-05 - Archie Moore vs Ezzard Charles 2. The only one of their 3 bouts that was considered close.
Then I can come on here and tell you all it was a fix and Archie was the better man

Why ruin it with the HBOzos? Lamps is a joke and Ledermans routine was old 15 years ago.

I will take Sam Langford vs Joe Walcott with an honorable mention to Joe Gans v Battling Nelson

Tomasino wrote:

davie wrote:And one fight only, what would it be?

Reading about Maxie Rosenbloom and Harry Greb, both men have 298 fights exactly on record and not one with footage, got me thinking,
If you could see only one fight which is currently unavailable, which one would you choose?
Of course the full show would be viewed in full HD with Jim Lampley and Harold Lederman doing their thing.

Obviously there will be a few candidates on the respective careers of the above 2 men but there will be countless other top fighters with little to no footage or even, otherwise well covered fighters, who have one big fight that is lost to the archives.

I'll go for 1947-05-05 - Archie Moore vs Ezzard Charles 2. The only one of their 3 bouts that was considered close.
Then I can come on here and tell you all it was a fix and Archie was the better man

Why ruin it with the HBOzos? Lamps is a joke and Ledermans routine was old 15 years ago.

I will take Sam Langford vs Joe Walcott

I was kidding about the Lederman and Lampley bit, knew it would wind someone up

No, if you could see any fight, it would be in (decent quality) old b&w footage.

I have to say good choice. I hadn't actually realised Sam had fought for a genuine world title.
With all I've read about Sam being ducked and fighting for "coloured" world titles, particularly in his heavyweight days, I'd obviously skipped over this fight, despite having looked over his record many times and seeing the Walcott fight on there

Tunny Greb 1 would be my choice

cfang wrote:Tunny Greb 1 would be my choice

Or actually id like to see jeffries sharkey too - seen some stills from the old film and it was incredible. Shame the best quality film of that era isnt around :(

cfang wrote:

cfang wrote:Tunny Greb 1 would be my choice

Or actually id like to see jeffries sharkey too - seen some stills from the old film and it was incredible. Shame the best quality film of that era isnt around :(

Not grasping this one fight only bit are you?

Had to get greedy!

cfang wrote:Tunny Greb 1 would be my choice

Tunney vs Greb was one I'd considered

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Robinson/Gavilan

That would be my choice too.

davie wrote:

cfang wrote:

cfang wrote:Tunny Greb 1 would be my choice

Or actually id like to see jeffries sharkey too - seen some stills from the old film and it was incredible. Shame the best quality film of that era isnt around :(

Not grasping this one fight only bit are you?

Had to get greedy!

Ketchel vs Papke III for me.

Two Toms. Cribb vs. Molyneaux I, for me. The American had won the fight as England’s master boxer Cribb didn’t manage to make scratch but somehow he was excused and allowed more time (crowd disturbance or something) and not long after Molyneaux fell to exhaustion, I believe.
It was in a field in England....Copthorne Gap or something....and whilst completely illegal, it was attended by 20,000, some say twice as many, most of whom were on the road from before the break of day just to get there.

Harry Greb vs Mickey Walker. I read that it was a great fight between two tough and rough boxers. Then, they fought again later that night in a nightclub.

Charley Burley vs Archie Moore
Ike Williams vs Kid Gavilan I, II and III....Are these fights available on film? I think not.

And of course, the great Roberto Duran's early bouts before 1970

Tyson Vs Douglas,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Benn vs McChellan

Rexob wrote:Tyson Vs Douglas,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Benn vs McChellan

You haven't seen those? Easily accessible.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Rexob wrote:Tyson Vs Douglas,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Benn vs McChellan

You haven't seen those? Easily accessible.

Oh, I thought he meant live?

Rexob wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Rexob wrote:Tyson Vs Douglas,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Benn vs McChellan

You haven't seen those? Easily accessible.

Oh, I thought he meant live?

I could see the confusion, not really specified past his examples.

I could have stated the question better
but I'd think the message in the OP would give away, that I was talking about fights with no footage.

Stanley Ketchel v Sam Langford.