YOUR FAVOURITE HBO LEGENDARY NIGHTS EPISODE

Would like to know what your favourite episode is of this great programme and why.

Here's just to name a a few.

Pryor vs Argüello
Lewis vs Tyson
Foreman vs Moorer
Hagler vs Hearns
De La Hoya vs Trinidad

 

Golota-Bowe.

It's funny listening to the Yanks reinvent the wheel as they {A} try to make out Bowe was shot to begin with and {B} try to make out that there was nothing racial about the violence that Bowes people initiated afterwards.

It's always nice to watch people dissolve in their own base character.

Also, there was very little from Ron Borges in that episode. That's a bonus.

 

Do you actually have any interest in boxing beyond distorted media coverage of it?

 

I really enjoyed every episode. Would be impossible for me to pick a winner, btu perhaps Foreman-Moorer is the best story.

 

Fights last at best 12 rounds, with 1 minute in between. That means your average fight is taken care of within one hour- tops.

How much of this forum, for instance, is given to poring over the minutiae of the fights themselves?

Very very little.

The majority of time and effort is instead given over to conflicting opinions, conflicting interpretations, dealing with the spin we each put on different fights etc.

Fights lasting one hour have a week of buildup and a week of aftermath and countless press conferences and opinions etc.

Even when a fight proceeds to a very certain outcome there will be people trying to tell you that what you saw happen didn't really happen, or only happened for obscure reasons that you dont know about but that they do know about...

This is what catches my attention. This is what I like to get stuck into.

The same people who want to tell you Bowe was shot, Sam Peter was shit and Jeff Lacy wasnt all that good are the same people who had Bowe a favorite to wax Golota, had Sam Peter odds-on to destroy Wlad and had Joe Calzaghe a dead-man walking.

I just like to slap them about some and remind them of their earlier indiscretions.:crafty:

 

chavez/taylor was my favorite.

 

co-sign... Pryor-Arguello was right behind it (though also my favorite actual fight of the bunch).

 

holmes-cooney episode was great as well.

 

I don't think I've ever watched a show I didn't really enjoy. Ditto for 24/7, actually.

i wish there was a boxing channel, i really do.

 

Oooh never seen that yin! :crafty:

 

does anyone know who does the voice-over for 24/7? i must say, i've never seen a single full game of hockey, but the guy's voice and narration made that episode of caps vs. pittsburg interesting enough for me to catch the game on new year's day.

 

damn, it's that actor liev schreiber who played sabertooth in that wolverine movie.

 

He does a lot of the narration for HBO. One of the best at it, IMO.

To the thread, it's been so long I don't really remember that much of any of the episodes.

Remember only parts of the Atlas interview on Foreman-Moorer, but not much else about that episode.

 

Cool. I wonder if he writes the lines....I'd imagine no, but kudos to whoever does.

 

is it out on DVD or something?

 

Yep- and it is prescribed viewing material for anyone who thinks that Cooney wasn't as badly managed as Holmes was. A classic example of guys being ripped off and sold short in totally different ways.

 

Yep. He was also in Scream movies, and his brother played Nicky Sobotka on The Wire.

 

yea i remember him from the scream series. he's actually not a bad actor. he was also in the omen remake. haven't seen him in anything else though.

 

"Polaks pissing on each others legs"::::

 

Richard Steele was in a few controversial bouts.

 

He was in CSI for a bit, was also in the Hurricane, the Manchurian Candidate remake...he's usually a supporting actor, which is kind of a shame giving his acting ability.

 

:cheer:

 

You know what I love about it..........at the time that Golota signed to fight Bowe, everybody, and I mean everybody, figured that would be the end of it. They would fight, Bowe would win, that would be it. Nobody expected Bowe to be that unprepared, for Golota to be that good, for the fight to end like it did, for the festivities to break out afterward.

I think, and I may be wrong, but I think it was the ONLY non-title affair of all the stuff that HBO did in this series.

Chavez-Taylor was for the title of THE MAN at 140, Bowe-Holyfield was for the lot at Heavyweight, Lewis vs Tyson was pretty much for the lot at Heavyweight, Hagler vs Hearns, Ray Leonard vs Hagler both for the man at 160, Arguello vs Pryor was for the man at 140......Cooney vs Holmes for the HW title....

......Bowe vs Golota was a marking time fight for Bowe and a pay-cheque for Golota. ::

 

That reminds me. Why was Bowe/Golota I scheduled for 12 rounds when it wasn't for the title ? I even remember it being a big deal at the time. Bowe camp requested 12 rounds when Golota camp agreed to 10. The day of the fight Golota camp finds this out and Golota threatens to leave so they gave Golota 50 K more to do it over 12 and he agreed. 12 rounds for non title fights ? is that legal ?

 

I think there may have been a minor title involved- I used to think the WBO title was at stake, though Wikipedia quotes Riddick Bowe as having vacated that title in 1995 and that by 1996, Akinwande was the new champion.

 

They were trying to pass it off as a "People's Champion(ship)" fight.

 

what the hell is that ?!!

 

Someone should write a book about Golota.

Lots of fans here love to point out that he never beat anyone - that he was a mental midget.

And yet for nearly 15 years he managed to remain in the heavyweight mix, for most of those years as a viable threat.

I thought he beat Ruiz; I thought he beat Byrd;

Let's face it - the guy was an amazing talent. He was the most fluid boxer for a guy his size I've ever seen. His reach was nearly unprecendented, his body-punching among the best you'll see among heavyweights.

But the guy lost it. He lost it twice against Bowe. He paniced against Tyson and Lewis. And he acquiesed against Grant. But physically, tactically and technically, at his best, he probably would've beaten all of those guys, except maybe Lewis.

Golota vs. prime Holyfield? Easy fight for Golota.

Too often Golota is talked about for what he lacked instead of what he didn't.

 

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Golota vs Holyfield ? Golota had the perfect blend of size and skill to beat Holyfield but it would come down to what they have inside and Holyfield has too much heart and would just keep coming at him till Golota can't take it anymore and fouls out. Golota would have headbutts elbows and fists coming at him and he would just mentally crumble.