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Boxing's Best: Grudge Fights [VHS]

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GRUDGE FIGHTS is a one-hour HBO program that first aired in 1982. The show's highlight is an in-studio interview of two former heavyweight champs who squared off against each other in three legendary fights.

Brief clips of nearly two-dozen bouts are shown, also some out-of-ring footage. Many expected "grudge" fights are featured. Missing are the several LaMotta/Robinson contests.

PROGRAM--
(9/23/26) First Gene Tunney/Jack Dempsey fight ends with Tunney taking a unanimous decision
(9/22/27) REMATCH: "Long count" fight ends in another unanimous decision for Tunney
(6/19/36) Max Schmeling wins a 12th round KO over Joe Louis
(6/22/38) REMATCH: Louis KOs Schmeling in Round 1
(6/10/48) REMATCH #2: Tony Zale KOs Rocky Graziano in the 3rd round
(9/8/50) Sandy Saddler vs. Willie Pep is a Round 8 TKO for Saddler
(9/26/51) REMATCH: Round 10 TKO for Saddler
(3/7/51) Joe Walcott is beaten by champ Ezzard Charles in a 15 round split decision
(7/18/51) The much older Walcott KOs Charles in the 15th and wins the crown
(9/23/52) Challenger Rocky Marciano takes the title from Walcott with a 13th round KO
(5/15/53) REMATCH: Walcott, who's receiving a larger purse, goes down in the 1st round
(1/2/57) Gene Fullmer takes a 15 round unanimous decision from champ Sugar Ray Robinson
(5/1/57) REMATCH: Robinson regains the middlewight title with a 5th round KO
(9/23/57) Carmen Basilio takes Sugar Ray's crown in a split decision
(3/25/58) REMATCH: Robinson wins it back in another split decision
(6/26/59) Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in the 3rd round for the heavyweight title
(6/20/60) REMATCH: Patterson KOs Johansson in the 5th to regain his crown
INTERVIEW: MUHAMMAD ALI and JOE FRAZIER
(6/18/63) Muhammad Ali's controversial "ripped glove" 5th round TKO over British champ Henry Cooper
(5/21/66) REMATCH: Ali TKOs Cooper again, this time in the 6th
(9/21/66) Joe Frazier wins a 10 round split decision over Oscar Bonavena, who insists he actually won
(12/10/68) REMATCH: Frazier again bests Bonavena in a 15 round unanimous decision
(3/8/71) Joe Frazier takes a unanimous decision from Muhammad Ali
(10/1/75) REMATCH #2: The "Thrilla in Manilla" goes to Ali when Frazier doesn't answer the 15th round bell