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45 Fantastic Fights Of The Century

This DVD is the single best collection of fights, galore as far back as 1908. All the videos have sound with each fight and the DVD extras menu has background selective information on each fighter shown in the DVD.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Complete History?
By JPGRfan
I’ve searched, and so far, I have not come across a boxing (mainly Heavyweight) DVD, with more footage from the early years 1900-1950,
than this one. The only one that comes close is the DVD “The Kings of the Ring”.

I realize, the earlier you go back, the footage will be horrible, limited camera views, but, its part of Boxing history, so, show it.
In VHS, you can probably find a few good ones with older fights,
if you look long enough.

The footage is fair to good quality on most of them. Lots of fights on here too, from 1909 to the 1950s, maybe one from the early 60′s.
Going back to Jack Johnson, Jess Willard(Not fighting Johnson), James Braddock, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and many more.

More DVD’s like this, need to be released. I wouldn’t call this the best, I’d call this one, the only one, with a more complete history of the early fights. Some of these might be considered rare fights, that you might not find on other DVDs.

I say its worth the 10 dollars.

Buy it.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Great old footage
By M. Bulik
I was really impressed with this movie. I actually bought it at a Dollar store (for a buck!). The producers did a good job transfering the footage to DVD. It don’t have too many huge fights, but it has some fight s from as far back as 1909! It does have most of the greats like Liston, Joe Louis, both Rockys, Max Baer, and many more.

Definaltey worth the buy if you like the classic fights.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Not quite up to scratch, but worth the price.
By Mitri Matte
Because it’s hard to find anything on the older fighters, this DVD does fill a kind of boxing black hole; among the fighters on this compilation are ones that you rarely get to see at all.

For instance, you get the Will o’ the Wisp against rough-housing Sandy Saddler; it was the first time I’d ever seen Pep fight, and he’s simply mesmerizing (watch him and you’ll see where Orlando Canizales picked up his style). Jersey Joe Walcott’s on this DVD too – he does the herky-jerky, slips and slides and shuffles his way past Joe Louis (though Louis gets the nod – go figure!). And the amazing Kid Chocolate’s on the menu as well.

One of the truly great fights though, the 1909 Clash of the Titans between Stanley Ketchel and Jack Johnson, – a vicious middleweight against a skilful heavyweight – is extremely disappointing. After several minutes of the fight – suddenly, magically, inexplicably – we see Johnson down and Ketchel on his back – without seeing the punches that did the damage!

Additionally, the Walcott-Louis fight included here needs redoing – Walcott’s torso disappears into the dark background of the crowd so that Louis appears to be fighting just a pair of boxing trunks with legs attached! And this DVD also gives you the Tunney-Dempsey fights twice – why? No man can say!

All in all, it’s worth buying to have some of the old-time greats on your DVD shelf, but don’t expect too much from either the film quality or the footage.

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