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do you have any of these rare fights:

Larry Holmes v Roy Tiger Williams/Garing Lane
Jeff Merritt v Ron Stander/Ernie Terrell/Henry Clark
Earnie Shavers v Jimmy Young 1&2
Ron Lyle v Buster Mathis/Jimmy Ellis/Oscar Bonavena
Bernardo Mercado v Trevor Berbick/Mike Weaver
John Tate v Lou Esa/Bernardo Mercado
Trevor Berbick v David Bey/Mitch Blood Green
Quick Tillis v Ron Stander
Greg Page v Funso Banjo/James Broad/Jerry Ballard/Marion Wilson
Tim Witherspoon v Quick Tillis/Jumbo Cummings/Mark Wills
Tony Tubbs v Jeff Sims/Jimmy Young/Bonecrusher Smith/Orlin Norris
David Bey v Buster Douglas/George Chaplin/Leroy Caldwell
James Broad v Eddie Gregg/Larry Alexander/Rodney Frazier
Bert Cooper v Orlin Norris
Dee Collier v Tex Cobb
Buster Douglas v Tex Cobb
Tony Tucker v Jimmy Young/James Broad/Bigfoot Martin
Mark Wills v Greg Page/Mike White
Orlin Norris v Tony Tucker 2/Marion Wilson
Oliver McCall v Lionel Butler/Jesse Ferguson/Mike Dixon
Mike Hunter v Oliver McCall
Riddick Bowe v Garing Lane 1&2
Ray Mercer v Garing Lane

overhand_right wrote:do you have any of these rare fights:

Larry Holmes v Roy Tiger Williams/Garing Lane
Jeff Merritt v Ron Stander/Ernie Terrell/Henry Clark
Earnie Shavers v Jimmy Young 1&2
Ron Lyle v Buster Mathis/Jimmy Ellis/Oscar Bonavena
Bernardo Mercado v Trevor Berbick/Mike Weaver
John Tate v Lou Esa/Bernardo Mercado
Trevor Berbick v David Bey/Mitch Blood Green
Quick Tillis v Ron Stander
Greg Page v Funso Banjo/James Broad/Jerry Ballard/Marion Wilson
Tim Witherspoon v Quick Tillis/Jumbo Cummings/Mark Wills
Tony Tubbs v Jeff Sims/Jimmy Young/Bonecrusher Smith/Orlin Norris
David Bey v Buster Douglas/George Chaplin/Leroy Caldwell
James Broad v Eddie Gregg/Larry Alexander/Rodney Frazier
Bert Cooper v Orlin Norris
Dee Collier v Tex Cobb
Buster Douglas v Tex Cobb
Tony Tucker v Jimmy Young/James Broad/Bigfoot Martin
Mark Wills v Greg Page/Mike White
Orlin Norris v Tony Tucker 2/Marion Wilson
Oliver McCall v Lionel Butler/Jesse Ferguson/Mike Dixon
Mike Hunter v Oliver McCall
Riddick Bowe v Garing Lane 1&2
Ray Mercer v Garing Lane

I have Holmes-Lane and Mercer-Lane, original copies.
I have Norris-Tucker, 6-13-91, but not sure if it is 1 or 2

As to the others, no. Most of them apparently weren't broadcast.
But I do invite you to check out my list, you'll find a lot of other hard to find bouts there. Takes some digging, but they're there.

don't know about the others, but I was at the Jeff Merritt/Ron Stander fight and it wasn't televised and the only way there'd be a record of it would be if someone made a bootleg film of it. As Don King was there as the promoter that is ....well, highly unlikely. I don't recall seeing any of the other fights on your list so I agree that they were probab ly never televised. Hope you prove me wrong...I'd like to see some of them myself.

DAAAAAAAAAAMN jaclem you saw merrit/stander LIVE !!!

tell me more!!!

can you give me the deatils of the fight, as much as you can remember??? anything would be appreciated!!!!!!

oh yeh, as far as the fights go, i KNOW for a fact the following were televised:

Larry Holmes v Roy Tiger Williams(undercard of ALi v Young)/Garing Lane(will of been on USA Network)
Jeff Merritt v Ernie Terrell (a high profile fight like this? musta been on TV right?)
Ron Lyle v Buster Mathis
John Tate v Lou Esa/Bernardo Mercado (tate was high profile cos he was an olypian. they filmed all his early fights right?)
Trevor Berbick v David Bey(some HBO undercard, have seen it)
Greg Page v James Broad(tyson thomas undercard but wasnt broadcast)/Jerry Ballard(ruiz tucker joppy undercard)/Marion Wilson (yes sure was on TV)
Tim Witherspoon v Quick Tillis(coetzee dokes HBO DID show this one)
Tony Tubbs v Jimmy Young(tape does exist)/Bonecrusher Smith(holmes undercard, was shhown on HBO)/Orlin Norris (musta been shown right???)
David Bey v George Chaplin/Leroy Caldwell (HBO showed clips on page/bey preview)
James Broad v Eddie Gregg(robsteth even has this one)/Larry Alexander/Rodney Frazier
Bert Cooper v Orlin Norris (musta been??!?!)
Dee Collier v Tex Cobb (ditto)
Buster Douglas v Tex Cobb (ditto?)
Tony Tucker v James Broad(def was shown, high profile fight, seen clips)
Orlin Norris v Tony Tucker 2 (1996, was shown in bars but not on home broadcast, undercard to mccall/maskaev)
Oliver McCall v Jesse Ferguson(seen HL's)/Mike Dixon(shouldve been shown)
Mike Hunter v Oliver McCall (tyson holmes undercard)
Riddick Bowe v Garing Lane 1&2 (bowe was star! will have been shown!)
Ray Mercer v Garing Lane (def does exist, some have it)

The following fights are on my list, in case you weren't able to see it:

LANE, GARING MDEC 4 MIKE ROBINSON
LANE, GARING KO 4 PHILLIP PINDERS
LANE, GARING L 4 RAY MERCER
LANE, GARING L 10 RENALDO SNIPES
LANE, GARING TKO 2 ALEX GARCIA
LANE, GARING UDEC10 CRAIG PAYNE
LANE, GARING TKOBY12 JEREMY WILLIAMS
LANE, GARING L 10 LARRY HOLMES
LANE, GARING L 8 LANCE WHITAKER
LANE, GARING L 10 LAMON BREWSTER
LANE, GARING KOBY 2 BRIAN NEILSEN

While it is possible that I missed a broadcast or two, it is very unlikely that I would have missed Bowe-Lane if it was broadcast between 1988 and 1998, unless it was only shown on a regional broadcast not in my area.
The problem with most of the fights you listed is that when they took place, neither fighter had generated much public interest, and few people indeed were taping undercard fights of new young fighters, with the possible exception of a few olympians. I've never seen a list of fights in this era ('88 to '01) with as many undercard fighters as on my list. As you can see by the response you're getting here, the chances of finding those bouts are practically nonexistant. Good luck, though.

yeh the majority of the fights are pre 1988.

ah well. the search continues.

how much do you charge for a tape, and do you do PAL?

overhand_right wrote:yeh the majority of the fights are pre 1988.

ah well. the search continues.

how much do you charge for a tape, and do you do PAL?

I don't do PAL, sorry. I don't have a VCR capable of converting to PAL, and paying for conversion is too expensive in the USA.

I charge $20.00 US for a tape of the era 1985-2003, plus shipping.

overhand - I got your message and will respond shortly, after I plumb my memory for the best information and details.

For now, and others may be interested, Merritt looked like a terrific comer that night, gave the tough Ron Stander a real battering, knocked him down for the first and as far as I know maybe only time in his career,and the referee stopped it in the third. I touched on this fight before in a thread with references to Larry Holmes, who was on the undercard.

overhand--just sent you a personal message re merritt/stander. I'd appreciate if you let me know on the forum when you get it, as sometimes my email gets nutty. plus, I'd like to know whatever happened to Candy Slim...lost trackl somewhere alonmg the way.

Overhand...as i said , sometimes my email gets coo coo so I'm not sure if you got my personal message re: Jeff Merritt or not. Don't expect you to slobber all over your keyboard with gratitude; just want to know if you got it. A teaser...I've leanred a few more things since I sent that one.