One fight per week…

[TintaBoricua]

A few of my favs that have not been mentioned

Hagler v Hearns

Hagler v Minter

Toney v Barkley

Holyfield v Qawi I

Tiger v Griffith

Tiger v Hank

Duran v Bizzaro

Leonard v Hearns I

Robinson v Basillio II

RJJ v Pazienza

Golovkin v Canelo I

Finito Lopez v Alvarez II

Monzon v Benvenutti I

Pryor v Arguello I

Morales v Barrera I

I like these in bold. I can’t vouch for the others but I’ll add them to my list and do my due diligence.

[TintaBoricua]

Good. Watch it without looking up the result. Some of the best back and forth fighting you will ever see.

And you won't be able to predict the winner until well into the bout.

Don't look up the results.

You will see one of the greatest fights, prize fighting ever produced.

At one point they even try to stop the fight on a technical DQ but the champion would not have it and forced the fight to continue to a conclusion.

It is everything right about boxing. Even the s-tupid outsiders, commission, doctors, referee, seconds couldn't it screw up. The fighters would not let them.

Perfectly matched with opposing styles, both came to win and gave it their all. Both were masters of their craft and hard as coffin nails.

P.S. No, it wasn't an important fight, just a WBA Featherweight title at risk on a Saturday afternoon broadcast. Not the stuff casuals on boxing forums remember. It's a fight for fight fans, not star chasers.

Oh, no. I wasn’t intending to look at the result if recommended. That’s kinda like spoiling a movie oneself and then watching it. It’s just better going into it blindly.

[DeeMoney]

Those aren’t bad at all. If she hadn’t seen Wilder/Fury 3, I would seriously be considering this one. There’s A LOT of history and backstory leading into that rubber match (or even the first fight for that matter).

Joe Louis/Max Schmeling has serious historical implications. I forgot about that one.

I thought about Ali/Frazier 1 and 3 as well, but those (Ali really) are SO high profile that I’m almost certain she knows the outcomes of them in particular.

Ali/Foreman has a lot of historical context as well, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a riveting fight.

Bowe/Holyfield…I have to check which of the three is the best. I can’t be showing an entire trilogy. She’ll only have the patience for maybe one fight per week. Lol

Its gotta be fight #2. A back and forth majority decision which also saw a man on a fan driven parachute crash into the ring is more exciting and noteworthy than a white wash UD, or a TKO over an ill opponent.

[JAB5239]

Kid Akeem Afinwashe vs Robert Quiorga. Ring ****zine fight of the year for 1991. Hakeem collapsed after the fight from a blood cloth on his brain. He survives but wasn't allowed to fight again in the United States. He turned to drug dealing and got himself deported to Nigeria where he started boxing again. He died in 1994 after collapsing after a training session. Quiorga would also die at a young age after being stabbed to death at a party in 1994. Great fight, tragic events that followed it.

[Mr Mitts]

I’ll add it to the list. Haven’t seen or heard of this one.

My deceased brother and I watched that fight(Lopez/Ayala). Neither one of us ever forgot it.

You should know better than anyone else what your wife might like. The first time pick three or four short fights of a different nature to get a better idea of what she might enjoy most. Maybe even begin with an amateur fight so she can see the differences. Followed by a Fullmer fight this would really highlight those differences. Somewhat newly wed? Two years? She may just want to spend more time with you, or possibly see what it is you might neglect her for.

Did she like the Fury fight? That is significant, since it sounds like the only one she may have watched.

[TintaBoricua]

My deceased brother and I watched that fight(Lopez/Ayala). Neither one of us ever forgot it.

You should know better than anyone else what your wife might like. The first time pick three or four short fights of a different nature to get a better idea of what she might enjoy most. Maybe even begin with an amateur fight so she can see the differences. Followed by a Fullmer fight this would really highlight those differences. Somewhat newly wed? Two years? She may just want to spend more time with you, or possibly see what it is you might neglect her for.

Did she like the Fury fight? That is significant, since it sounds like the only one she may have watched.

Nah. Been married for more than a decade. She made the suggestion of watching fights together because I started watching her favorite telenovela with her (and I’m enjoying it surprisingly…never watched one before). Lo and behold, here I am watching this like married couples watch series together and now she wants to return the favor by watching boxing (albeit just ONE per week). I ain’t gonna’ complain, I just gotta’ make sure I pick great fights with backstories. That’s all it is in a nutshell.

[TintaBoricua]

Kid Akeem Afinwashe vs Robert Quiorga. Ring ****zine fight of the year for 1991. Hakeem collapsed after the fight from a blood cloth on his brain. He survives but wasn't allowed to fight again in the United States. He turned to drug dealing and got himself deported to Nigeria where he started boxing again. He died in 1994 after collapsing after a training session. Quiorga would also die at a young age after being stabbed to death at a party in 1994. Great fight, tragic events that followed it.

Jesus Christ…what a downer. I love the trivia, though. Some good posters in this section.

[Mr Mitts]

Nah. Been married for more than a decade. She made the suggestion of watching fights together because I started watching her favorite telenovela with her (and I’m enjoying it surprisingly…never watched one before). Lo and behold, here I am watching this like married couples watch series together and now she wants to return the favor by watching boxing (albeit just ONE per week). I ain’t gonna’ complain, I just gotta’ make sure I pick great fights with backstories. That’s all it is in a nutshell.

Several short fights instead of one long one was just an idea to test the water first. Did she like the Fury fight? Well, wait, if that was one of her conditions, I guess she didn't like it. That is a guideline.

I get it the backstory has to be huge for women since they are even big for menfolk too. I think you know what she will like in a backstory. You will get that just fine. Go by what you already know about her. Ask yourself if she would rather witness a brutal war like Gatti/Ward or some real obvious high level skill a la Whitaker et al. Somewhere in between lies your best choice. Starting from the middle you must at least know which direction to follow in your quest.

When is your first production?

[TintaBoricua]

Several short fights instead of one long one was just an idea to test the water first. Did she like the Fury fight? Well, wait, if that was one of her conditions, I guess she didn't like it. That is a guideline.

I get it the backstory has to be huge for women since they are even big for menfolk too. I think you know what she will like in a backstory. You will get that just fine. Go by what you already know about her. Ask yourself if she would rather witness a brutal war like Gatti/Ward or some real obvious high level skill a la Whitaker et al. Somewhere in between lies your best choice. Starting from the middle you must at least know which direction to follow in your quest.

When is your first production?

No Wilder/Fury fights not because she said it, but because WE already saw the rubber match live and she knows the ending. I COULD show her the first one and add the backstory of how Fury came back from the brink of suicide and depression and then the dramatic rise in the 12th, but given that the fight is not enormously entertaining (the first one), I don’t know if it’s worth using my opening salvo for that one.

But you’re right. Something in between absolutely savage and fine boxing like Mayweather/Oscar would probably be the best happy medium.

If it’s too brutal, she might look at boxing like Neanderthals slugging. If it’s too technical, she might be pulling her hair waiting for something to happen (think Klitschko/Ibragimov).

I just remembered Victor Ortiz/Marcos Maidana…

[QueensburyRules]

Sanchez Nelson was a good technical match especially as Azuma was so inexperienced and took the fight on short notice.

The later prime Nelson was a beast.

- - Ghana one of the oldest historical boxing areas in the world. They fight with leather thongs wrapped around their fists.

Nelson had some of the best training to be had when he faced Sanchez, obviously as the toe to toe nature of the bout turned out.