Monthly Archives: October 2019

Boxing: Title Bout II Heavyweight Tournament Championship

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Foreman knocked Marciano down in each of the first two rounds, but a stunning blow to the ribs by Marciano in the 6th eventually led to Foreman taking too much punishment to continue after the 9th round.

Rocky Marciano, Title Bout II Heavyweight Tournament Champion!

This tournament took way longer than is should have, from April 2018 to now, just to play out 15 fights.

I’ll try to do my next tournament in a more timely matter, by reducing the fight length (10 rounds instead of 15) and playing more fights in one sitting/session.

Stay tuned!

Glory Days Boxing: Test Run

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While going through the rule book for the new boxing game, they used Muhammad Ali and Jack Dempsey for all the examples

So I decided to play my first fight with them.

I’m going to do 10 round fights from here on out, instead of the 15 round bouts that I ran in Title Bout II.

Results:

Scoring is a bit more extensive in this new game, though I think I can use the three judge system in Title Bout II as well. Here you can roll on optional charts to get a referee and judges for your fight.  Judges can affect a fight through scoring, as can the ref by their biases toward the fighters themselves.

I did miss some cut/swelling checks in the earlier rounds, though Ali received swelling on his right eye about halfway into the fight.  I think that woke him up and he outscored Dempsey for the rest of the contest.

Unanimous decision: Muhammad Ali defeats Jack Dempsey.

Verdict: I like this game.

Though I’ll still play Title Bout II for the other weight classes that Glory Days doesn’t have.

And perhaps I’ll dabble in DICE Boxing, if I ever get around to printing out the boxers from even more weight classes.

Stay tuned!

Heavyweight Tournament II: Glory Days Boxing

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Since I’m more than likely going to conclude my Title Bout II Heavyweight tournament this week, here’s a peek at the next Heavyweight tournament using the Glory Days Boxing game.

I’m calling this one the Scott Bullerwell Heavyweight Invitational, since I asked and he came up with all of the match ups.

Scott’s pre-tournament analysis is as follows:

Muhammad Ali v Nikolay Valuev — classic v. modern
Shannon Briggs v John Ruiz — gutsy B-listers
Jack Dempsey v Tyson Fury — legend vs. hype
Buster Douglas v Andrew Golota — power-puncher B-listers, another match that should have happened but never did
George Foreman v Evander Holyfield — legend v. legend
Joe Frazier v Leon Spinks — legend v. legend that somehow never met in the ring
Wladimir Klitschko v Lennox Lewis — some say Lewis retired to avoid this fight
David Tua v Mike Tyson — very similar fighters with great technique and absurd power

This tournament will begin as soon as I finish the current one.

Stay tuned!

Boxing Double Bill

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Fight #1

Marciano was relentless after Dempsey broke his nose in the 2nd, easily winning the next 4 rounds until the ref stopped the fight at 1:32 of the 7th round.  Dempsey was also knocked down in the 2nd, shortly after the broken nose.

Fight #2

After splitting the first two rounds, where Foreman gave Tyson a bloody nose in the first, Foreman knocked Tyson out 34 seconds into the third.

So we have our Heavyweight Championship Bout all set:

The Brockton Blockbuster, Rocky Marciano, versus Big George Foreman

Stay tuned!