Davie
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Ok folks, time for Davie to go for another project.
I've been throwing some ideas around in my head since the end of the 85-95 middleweight thread. Do I go for another era in a particular weight class?
I toyed with the 80's lightweights around the Chacon, Mancini, Limon, Boza era. It would have had some great battles in there.
Toyed with delving into the heavyweights on the fringes of the Ali/Frazier/Foreman era, just following the contenders, not the fights we all know.
Do I focus on a fighter.
I settled on the idea of something @Bogotazo suggested a couple months back, looking at a fighter by analysing his 5 best opponents and their own 5 biggest fights.
30 fight and it's all done, sounds easy, but once you delve into history you struggle to hit the exact numbers there, some you can't get enough fights, some fighters you wouldn't do justice limiting to 5.
I juggled some names, the brief career of Salvador Sanchez, @Flea Mans top bantam Ruben Olivares, maybe try to figure out how good Bob Foster really was?
The I settled on King Carlos Monzon. I did a little research a few years back, just watching a hand full of fights and went from rating Monzon 4th ATG middleweight to now considering him probably no1 and i decided to back that up by looking at not only him but weighing up his opposition by trying to watch them in their biggest bouts around that era.
I've not fully fleshed out the idea but I have some YouTube vids looked out and started to put together a timeline. I'll quickly lay the foundations of how the MW title found it's way from Fullmer to Dick Tiger via Joey Giardello and eventually into the rivalry of Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuti.
From there I'll change tack slightly, not following the title but putting meat on the bones of the careers of those who faced King Carlos, afer all he basically dominated the middleweight scene for a good number of years, and where better to start than Griffith and Benvenuti. I'll probably struggle to stick to a chronological order, but I'll do my best.
Hopefully I'll end with another 20+ pager, rounding up with Monzon vs Rodrigo Valdez. Which takes me to not a million miles from Hagler who served as the starting point for my last project.
In essence this will be pretty much Davies 65-75 middleweight thread but with a slightly different twist (and some fucking honking footage)
Enjoy.
I've been throwing some ideas around in my head since the end of the 85-95 middleweight thread. Do I go for another era in a particular weight class?
I toyed with the 80's lightweights around the Chacon, Mancini, Limon, Boza era. It would have had some great battles in there.
Toyed with delving into the heavyweights on the fringes of the Ali/Frazier/Foreman era, just following the contenders, not the fights we all know.
Do I focus on a fighter.
I settled on the idea of something @Bogotazo suggested a couple months back, looking at a fighter by analysing his 5 best opponents and their own 5 biggest fights.
30 fight and it's all done, sounds easy, but once you delve into history you struggle to hit the exact numbers there, some you can't get enough fights, some fighters you wouldn't do justice limiting to 5.
I juggled some names, the brief career of Salvador Sanchez, @Flea Mans top bantam Ruben Olivares, maybe try to figure out how good Bob Foster really was?
The I settled on King Carlos Monzon. I did a little research a few years back, just watching a hand full of fights and went from rating Monzon 4th ATG middleweight to now considering him probably no1 and i decided to back that up by looking at not only him but weighing up his opposition by trying to watch them in their biggest bouts around that era.
I've not fully fleshed out the idea but I have some YouTube vids looked out and started to put together a timeline. I'll quickly lay the foundations of how the MW title found it's way from Fullmer to Dick Tiger via Joey Giardello and eventually into the rivalry of Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuti.
From there I'll change tack slightly, not following the title but putting meat on the bones of the careers of those who faced King Carlos, afer all he basically dominated the middleweight scene for a good number of years, and where better to start than Griffith and Benvenuti. I'll probably struggle to stick to a chronological order, but I'll do my best.
Hopefully I'll end with another 20+ pager, rounding up with Monzon vs Rodrigo Valdez. Which takes me to not a million miles from Hagler who served as the starting point for my last project.
In essence this will be pretty much Davies 65-75 middleweight thread but with a slightly different twist (and some fucking honking footage)
Enjoy.
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