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Renofan
11-17-2009, 05:12 PM
A good friend of mine sent me some fights, notably Trice/Pompey and Knight/Baysmore, along with my recently acquired copy of Roach/Cordova, and I was wondering, anyone else have any fond memories of these vintage ESPN slugfests? Or perhaps could someone name some more that are worth seeking out????
MRBILL
11-17-2009, 05:17 PM
"Duran-Laing" of '82
"Mayweather-Pendleton" of 1985?
"Curry-Hwang" of 1983
"Toney-McCallum 3"

I'm sorry, but ESPN has STUNK like shit for so long its hard to think of anything truly great from that network....

MR.BILL
Titan1
06-12-2010, 02:13 PM
That Caveman Lee/John LoCiero joint.
TheGreatA
06-12-2010, 02:15 PM
That Caveman Lee/John LoCiero joint.

Probably the best of them, especially the 5th round.

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bman100
06-12-2010, 03:41 PM
The only fights I wanna see from ESPN is:

Jack Dempsey vs. Billy Miske and
Jack Dempsey- Fred Fulton

Also if they had any footage of the PRIME sugar ray robinson, that would be gold.


After that, only Greb-Tunney 1 remains but I dont think thats likely to be seen from ESPN archives :|

After watching those fights, I dont really have any other fights that I want to watch desperately.
mr. magoo
06-12-2010, 03:51 PM
A good friend of mine sent me some fights, notably Trice/Pompey and Knight/Baysmore, along with my recently acquired copy of Roach/Cordova, and I was wondering, anyone else have any fond memories of these vintage ESPN slugfests? Or perhaps could someone name some more that are worth seeking out????


Kevin the tiger Pompey was a promising looking fighter back in the day, and his bout with Tyrone Trice was certainly memorable... Pompey lost this match of course, but had some very good regular performances on ESPN. Harold Brazier was a solid veteran and a personal favorite of mine who could commonly be seen on ESPN..... He never won a world title, but held multiple regional belts, fought in over 100 fights and mixed it up with both the best and worst of them... I even remember seeing some Mike Tyson's early showings there, and perhaps one of George Foreman's comeback fights against Rocky seckorski, I believe... Ray Mercer, Michael Nunn, Mike Tyson and other notables began their careers with Al Bernstein and Barry Thompkins looking on..... Livingstone Bramble and Roger Mayweather spent a fair amount of time there too.....
Cobra33
06-12-2010, 06:40 PM
Back when ESPN boxing was GOOD.


Roger Mayweather vs Zach Padilla-those 2 went at it.
Tommy Cordova vs Rocky Garcia
Jesse James Hughes vs Anthony Stephens
Harold Brazier vs Kevin Pompey 1 and 2
Zach Padilla vs Ray Olivera-each threw over a thousand punches
Todd Foster vs Jeff Mayweather
Ricky Meyers vs Ray Oilvera
Roger Mayweather vs Carl Griffith-Roger dominates first 3/4 rounds before getting rocked and forced to survive.
ALL of Harold Knights bouts on ESPN.Knight was a walk in puncher that wasn't concerned with defense.
Roger Mayweather vs Livingstone Bramble-Mayweather beat the hell out of Bramble and stops him.
Matthew Hilton vs Paul Whitaker-Hilton puts on a power punching display-Whitaker couldn't keep Hilton off.

And the cool thing is I have all these bouts!:D
Doc Dynamo
06-12-2010, 08:36 PM
How about Kenny "Bang Bang" Bogner vs Kato Wilson?