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- -OP don't provide any criteria for a superfight, so I will.
Superfight should attract the attention of the greater world not interested in boxing, and results should change the nature of the world.
Two contenders:
Corbett/Fitz the first full length feature film in history, the first global fast handed, fleet footed unmarked dandy vs the surly, no nonsense, percussive everyday man and the first recorded KO, phantom punch, and body shot given a new name, the solar plexus punch.
Film went to every continent save Antarctic to cause the construction of new film specific movie theaters still being built today.
2nd is Joe Louis/Max Schmeling rematch the first radio broadcast relayed around to World.
Here were races and politics colliding with the impending ww2 loaded in the breech and what turned out to be the turning point in the civil rights movement. Millions rallied around Joe, but he had much to overcome, more than any one man can overcome, yet he concussed his previous victor conclusively such that he in his unassuming county boy way proved the inspiration for two young boys avidly listening, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela who later added their own stamp on the world.
Joe became one of Harry Truman's earliest advisors on how to integrate the US Armed Forces.
There have otherwise been no such world changers, but maybe one day, but not today...
Superfight should attract the attention of the greater world not interested in boxing, and results should change the nature of the world.
Two contenders:
Corbett/Fitz the first full length feature film in history, the first global fast handed, fleet footed unmarked dandy vs the surly, no nonsense, percussive everyday man and the first recorded KO, phantom punch, and body shot given a new name, the solar plexus punch.
Film went to every continent save Antarctic to cause the construction of new film specific movie theaters still being built today.
2nd is Joe Louis/Max Schmeling rematch the first radio broadcast relayed around to World.
Here were races and politics colliding with the impending ww2 loaded in the breech and what turned out to be the turning point in the civil rights movement. Millions rallied around Joe, but he had much to overcome, more than any one man can overcome, yet he concussed his previous victor conclusively such that he in his unassuming county boy way proved the inspiration for two young boys avidly listening, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela who later added their own stamp on the world.
Joe became one of Harry Truman's earliest advisors on how to integrate the US Armed Forces.
There have otherwise been no such world changers, but maybe one day, but not today...
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