You Get To Attend One Historical Fight

[Slugfester]

Then we can all look for him in the crowd photos.

"Look, there's the time traveler."

If Devil is going to that fight he better use a fast shutter time for our photos.

[kara]

I would also loved to have been at Joshua-Klitschko just for the crowd

[max baer]

Then we can all look for him in the crowd photos.

"Look, there's the time traveler."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pJ7RIJrL8 i remember the time traveller at tyson fight.

mine would be hagler vs hernes as the build up anticipation was so great i recall it as a kid on tele the build up was so exciting. the atmosphere was so electric. for me the build up to a fight is what really adds to my fond memories as i get so excited and all the celebrities were there it just was so exciting!

[Slugfester]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pJ7RIJrL8 i remember the time traveller at tyson fight.

mine would be hagler vs hernes as the build up anticipation was so great i recall it as a kid on tele the build up was so exciting. the atmosphere was so electric. for me the build up to a fight is what really adds to my fond memories as i get so excited and all the celebrities were there it just was so exciting!

Satirical punctuation, eh?

[Willow The Wisp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pJ7RIJrL8 i remember the time traveller at tyson fight.

mine would be hagler vs hernes as the build up anticipation was so great i recall it as a kid on tele the build up was so exciting. the atmosphere was so electric. for me the build up to a fight is what really adds to my fond memories as i get so excited and all the celebrities were there it just was so exciting!

Great memory for me too Nathan. Two absolutely GREAT fighters at the height of their powers. Hagler had a strangle hold on a very good Middleweight class and a sterling reputation that he would die to defend, and Heans had completely erased the stain of coming up just short against Leonard, as most felt that he was a more devastating Middleweight than he was a Welterweight, which takes some doing.
Massive PR made this one of the most followed sporting events of the decade.

And the action? It surpassed even all of that.
I was there, and the electricity crackled. Non-stop roar of the croud, all asses up out of their seats for the duration of the fight.

Has it ever been that good since?

[billeau2]

I would opt for something really early, before film. Maybe a Gem Mace fight. I would love to observe the whole gestault, how different it might be... Even something like James Figg teaching and doing exhibitions. Or the original Non pariel Dempsey the "game ****."

[Slugfester]

I would opt for something really early, before film. Maybe a Gem Mace fight. I would love to observe the whole gestault, how different it might be... Even something like James Figg teaching and doing exhibitions. Or the original Non pariel Dempsey the "game ****."

Wasn't there an older American style of fighting called Rough and Tumble, or something like that? Of course, not exactly boxing.

[max baer]

Great memory for me too Nathan. Two absolutely GREAT fighters at the height of their powers. Hagler had a strangle hold on a very good Middleweight class and a sterling reputation that he would die to defend, and Heans had completely erased the stain of coming up just short against Leonard, as most felt that he was a more devastating Middleweight than he was a Welterweight, which takes some doing.
Massive PR made this one of the most followed sporting events of the decade.

And the action? It surpassed even all of that.
I was there, and the electricity crackled. Non-stop roar of the croud, all asses up out of their seats for the duration of the fight.

Has it ever been that good since?

yes it was brilliant. me as a kid at the time didn't know all the two fighter's backgrounds but what i do remember here in the uk was that hagler had come to the uk and defeated the uk's son alan minter and after the fight the crowd threw loads of glass beer bottles at hagler and it brought shame on us as a country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_dVYdJ-qVs
it may not have been noticed over the pond but i was left holding hagler in high esteem as he went to the uk hostility and won. i can't think of too many fights where both fighters are at their absolute peak at the same time. it was a hot evening in the uk too i recall and after the fight me and my brother boxed each others ears off for hours out of sheer exhilaration!!
for us brits we loved harry carpenter as he was the voice of boxing in the uk and frank bruno's famous line "you know what i mean arry?" became a loving remark towards old harry.
this event with hagler and minter was my introduction to hagler and he grew to such a legend in the eighties.
time has flown by since the eighties for me. i can't believe hagler vs hernes was nearly 40 years ago man it seems more recent then that. i met an old friend a few years ago and we started talking just as left off 30 years ago. you always can talk properly to true old friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlQRtjy9lC0

[billeau2]

Wasn't there an older American style of fighting called Rough and Tumble, or something like that? Of course, not exactly boxing.

Yes. Our own Poster Rafael was very well researched about it among other topics before getting chased out of here by the rif raf. But this was a dueling style. It involved essentially biting off pieces of each other and eye gouging. Socially sanctioned forms of violence can often be the most horrific... The Japanese method of slicing the belly left to right and up, as compared to getting shot on a battle field. In Rough and Tumble social stigma was turned to social currency: If I walked around with one eye it meant I had engaged a fellow combatant and gave me a measure of respect. In honor fights it is always about the scars, not the win... German military officers would actually submit to face scars via saber duels to look viscious.

I will say that as with all fighting styles there was a method involved... Rough and Tumble practicioners knew how to best spoon an eye, bite a nose, these skills are part of martial arts. Philipino arts even have a subset of biting techniques (I forget what they are called). But as far as being sporting, this fight action is not of interest, though, as a martial artist I would have to say seeing how experienced R&T guys operated is definitely of interest.

[Slugfester]

Rough and Tumble had crowds, right? Did they pay anything to attend, or were these bouts spontaneous street fights?