Holmes came on strong at the end, but couldn’t overcome Bowe’s dominance.  Both fighters went down a couple of times during the fight.

Next up: Lennox Lewis vs. Rocky Marciano

Result:

Dempsey advances to the second round.  Baer looked winded by the 10th round, but managed to win 3 of the last 5.

Next up: Riddick Bowe vs. Larry Holmes

Stay tuned!

I received the replacement parts for Title Bout II.  I had played two fights with the game when I first got it.

Joe Louis defeated Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds.

George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier in 15 rounds.

I’ve decided to set up 6 more fights and have the winners play each other, as my first boxing tournament.

The other match ups:

Stay tuned!

For my second bout in Title Bout II:

Result:

“DOWN GOES FRAZIER!  DOWN GOES FRAZIER!”

Foreman knocked down Frazier in the 7th round.  And despite finishing strong in the last 3 rounds, Frazier lost to Foreman based on points.

Next up: I’m thinking Larry Holmes vs. Lennox Lewis.

Stay tuned!

I did a trial run and played out the fight between Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali.

15 rounds, both boxers went the distance without getting knocked down once, although as I played I found myself making mistakes that I corrected as play progressed.

For example, there’s a trait called ‘Killer Instinct’ that gets triggered under certain conditions when a boxer appears to have the upper hand.  Joe Louis had this in an early round, but I ignored it, but the result of the round seemed to reflect later rounds when I did remember to use ‘Killer Instinct’.

Both boxers were getting fouls later in the fight.  And Louis basically wore Ali down, winning round after round through sheer power.

At the end of the fight, the round by round point tally favored Joe Louis, so I figured he won.

I should come up with some sort of random tournament seeding for this game, starting with maybe 8 fighters who I recognize vs. 8 others who I’ve never heard of.  Round robin style, 16-8-4-2.

I should also review the rest of the rules.  Heh.

Stay tuned!

Title Bout II came in this week.

I’ve had the print-and-play copy of the game on the shelf for a while now, but now that I have the actual game, I want to dig right into it.

I already had my 1967 SF Giants replay set up on my table, so I made sure to finish the current series against the Dodgers before moving on to something else, again.

As mentioned elsewhere, my replay has the Giants with the same record at the All-Star Break as they did in real life.

There’s over 100 boxers (all heavyweights) in the game, and all I know is that my first fight will Muhammad Ali against… someone.

I played another boxing game with Ali vs. Tyson, can’t recall how that one went.

And to be honest, my knowledge of boxers is limited to Ali’s opponents, and a few others throughout history, mainly names mentioned in the barbershop scene in “Coming to America”.

So maybe I’l just have Ali fight Joe Louis.

Stay tuned!

I finally got around to printing out all the components for the game from PDFs.

Now to find time to actually cut everything.

Stay tuned!