Greetings and welcome to the new home of my Title Bout (TM)-simulated boxing results, where legends and palookas alike, past and present, take each other on. Feel free to drop requests for specific bouts, or for specific fighters to get some action in. I can't post the results of every fight I run (the automatch simulator can run a few hundred in just minutes, and since there are so many fighters in the database, I'm running a lot so I can establish records for a wide variety of them), but I will give you the highlights. Here are the initial champions, including how they won the title; I ran single-eliminations tournaments with 16 fighters in some divisions, and 8 in others.
HEAVYWEIGHT:
Joe Louis KO 9 Rocky Marciano.
Sweet payback for the real-life fight between the prime Marciano and the over-the-hill Louis. Louis dropped Marciano in the first, and twice in the 9th to end a fight in which he was leading comfortably on all cards. I think this would be a fairly typical result, were they in their primes simultaneously.
Louis moves to 4-0-2 (4) (Records are W-L-D (KO/TKO)), while Marciano falls to 3-1 (2).
CRUISERWEIGHT:
Evander Holyfield KO 14 O'Neill Bell (no 12-round championship fights here!)
Bell was dropped in the 11th, 12th, 13th, and twice in the 14th. Huge lead for Holyfield on the cards; only question was whether Bell was going to go the distance.
Holyfield moved to 3-0 (3). Bell fell to 2-1-2, but has picked up two more decisions to move to 4-1-2.
LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT:
Harry Greb W15 Mauro Mina
The only fighter ever to defeat Gene Tunney took a pretty easy decision, though it wouldn't have been as bad had Greb not scored two late knockdowns (14th & 15th). Scores: 146-137 (twice) and 148-135. Greb raises his record to 4-0-1 (2), while Mina falls to 3-1 (1). If your reaction is, "Who the hell is Mauro Mina?!" you're probably not alone. He was probably Peru's best fighter of the 20th century, putting together a 52-3-3 (25) record, with wins over, among others, Eddie Cotton and Bob Foster (in Foster's 13th pro fight). Kicking himself at ringside was Michael Spinks, who fought a draw with Greb in the semis, then lost the rematch. I suspect the "Spinks Jinx" will get a title shot before this is all over.
SUPER-MIDDLEWEIGHT
Michael Nunn W15 Sugar Ray Leonard
Michael Nunn captured the first dramatic belt of the tournament series, with a split decision win over Leonard. Nunn's title run included a majority decision (2 judges for him, 1 scored it a draw) AND a split decision (2 for him, 1 for the other guy). He got there, though, and he's now at 3-0, all by decision.
Scores 145-141; 146-140; 142-144. Judge Silvestri Albainza was probably on crack, though. The ringside experts' cards were more like 146-140, Nunn. Albainza gave Leonard the first four rounds, for instance, while the other two judges agreed that Nunn won the 1st and 3rd. Leonard fell to 2-1, and has since won a subsequent bout, putting him at 3-1, also all by decision.
Middleweight & below...the tournaments are over; I'll report the results later.
