HEAVYWEIGHT TOURNAMENT * CASSIUS CLAY,JOE LOUIS,ROCKY MARCIANNO,BAER,TUNNEY*RARE
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THE IDEA OF A "DREAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT" BETWEEN THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHTERS OF ALL TIME WAS CONCEIVED BY MURRY WORONER, PRESIDENT of GREAT FIGHTS, INC. FOLLOWING LONG HOURS OF DISCUSSIONS. HOW TO GO ABOUT IT ? FIRST, THE FIGHTERS WERE SELECTED BY POLLING THE LEADING SPORTS WRITERS IN THE U.S., AMONG THEM JIM ROACH of the NEW YORK TIMES, MEL DURSLAG of the LOS ANGELES EXAMINER , FRED BYROD OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, LOU LOUBET of RING MAGAZINE, BLACKIE SHERROD of the DALLAS TIMES HERALD, LEO FISHER of the CHICAGO AMERICAN , CHARLIE HOERTER of the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS and GEORGE STRICKLER of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE . THEN THOUSANDS OF BITS OF INFORMATION WERE FED INTO A GIANT COMPUTER . THE FIGHTERS WERE RATED BY THE WORLDS LEADING FIGHT AUTHORITIES ON 129 VARIABLES PER MAN . THE VARIABLES INCLUDED SPEED, ABILITY TO DELIVERY VARIOUS PUNCHE, ACCURACY, COURAGE , AGILITY, ABILITY TO AVOID AND TAKE VARIOUS PUNCHES, KILLER INSTINCT AND A VARIETY OF OTHERS . THEN THE BLOW BY BLOW OF EVERY FIGHT THESE MEN FOUGHT IN THEIR PRIME CAREERS WAS FED INTO THE COMPUTER, AND EACH OF THEIR OPPONENTS WAS RATED . THE COMPUTER PERFORMED OVER 4,000,000 FOR EACH ROUND . THE COMPUTER READOUT WAS CONVERTED INTO THE BLOW BY BLOW BROADCAST BY ANNOUNCER GUY LEBOW. DREAM REFEREE WAS RUBY GOLDSTEIN .
THE FIGHTERS INCLUDE MAX BAER, JIM JEFFRIES, MAX SCHMELING, JIMMY BRADDOCK, CASSIUS CLAY, JAMES . CORBETT, JACK DEMPSEY, BOB FITZSIMMONS, JACK JOHNSON, JOE LOUIS, ROCKY MARCIANNO, JESS WILLARD, JERSEY JOE WALCOTT, GENE TUNNEY, JOHN L SULLIVAN AND JACK SHARKEY.
THICK VINYL IS VG+ ON BOTH DISCS . LABELS ARE FREE OF STICKERS . GATEFOLD ALBUM COVER IS VG WITH EDGE AND CORNER WEAR . HAS (see photos) RING WEAR AND SMALL SPLITS ON SEAMS . COMES WITH HEAVY CLEAR VINYL OUTER SLEEVE. THANKS FOR LOOKING.
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