If you could hop in a time machine and attend one boxing match, what would it be?

[hhs661]

The shock & awe of Tyson-Douglass is up there for me, but I'd really love to see Duran-Leonard I with Sanchez-Nelson a close 2nd

[chaos]

Ali-Foreman or Tyson-Spinks. The first is obvious but the second probably not. I like it cause at the time it was a big deal with both of them being undefeated (pretty sure that's when "somebody's 0 has to go" started) and it confirmed Tyson's status as the baddest man on the planet. The build up was crazy and Tyson gave everyone what they wanted with a vicious first round destruction of Spinks.

[Jedi Vader]

Any of...

Robinson-La Motta

Curry-Honeyghan

Lewis-Klitschko

Benn-McClellan

[alza1988]

Probably Gatti Ward 1 or the thrilla in manilla .I've got a programme for the thrilla in manilla but it turned out to be a closed circuit tv one. http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/view.php?pg=history

[De la hoya 801]

Cool thread, I would go to the chavez sr vs Taylor fight for the bad azz and clutch KO

[edgarg]

Jack Johnson fights???

Exactly, a man with perception. I don't know why all the posters want to see Ali anf the latter day fighters. I saw nearly all of those fights, and they can be seen any time they want to, on Video, which gives more detail than live 150 ft from the ring
I'd want to see Johnson and Willard, then Johnson and Jeffries for a comparison. Historical stuff.

[edgarg]

Any of...

Robinson-La Motta

Curry-Honeyghan

Lewis-Klitschko

Benn-McClellan

You can see all those fights on video far better than in the cheap seats. What I remember most about the Curry_Honeyghan fight was that it was a huge shock to all experts, and mostly I could see a flailing set of arms like a windmill. Honeyghan that night walked all over curry, who never was allowed to do anything, very like Mayorga and Forrest.

[IronDanHamza]

I'd have loved to have seen any Young Griffo fight.

And of course Harry Greb.

[edgarg]

I'd have to go with Louis v.s. Schmelling 2. I can't even imagine how intense the build up for that was. Can you imagine a ringside seat to that?

The definitive book on this fight is, "The greatest Fight Of Our Generation" by Lewis Erenberg. I find it a hard read, repetitious and too painstaking, can only be read in sections, but that's just me. It thoroughly deals with the preceding years, the massive buildup and the aftermath. The fight itself is an anticlimax I've had it for 4 years already and not finished yet.

I normally read about 2-300 books a year.

[Canelo Phresh]

Robinson Lamotta 2