With the passing of George Foreman, I watched the “Rumble in the Jungle” last night, which I’m pretty sure we didn’t watch live back in the day, or at least I don’t recall doing that.  I may have watched it when ESPN was doing a marathon of Ali’s greatest fights a few years ago.

It may have been that marathon that prompted me to start playing tabletop boxing games, and creating the Scott Bullerwell Heavyweight Invitational.

This has been on hold for almost 3 years.

One of my tabletop goals from 2024 was to complete this project.

It’s high time I went back to it.

IT’S TIME FOR ROUND TWO OF THE SCOTT BULLERWELL HEAVYWEIGHT INVITATIONAL!

There’s 7 more fights to determine the winner.  I’d like to get a couple of them done this weekend.

Specifically, these two fights:

Especially that second fight, in memory of Foreman.

Stay tuned!

Two fights in one night!

Joe Frazier pummeled Leon Spinks in the middle rounds before knocking him out in the 8th.

First round of the Scott Bullerwell Heavyweight Invitational is *finally* finished!

The second round match ups:

Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get to these in the same calendar year.

Stay tuned!

Almost 15 months later, another fight!

Ruiz knocks down Brigs in the 2nd round, continues to pound on him, and referee Davey Pearl stops the fight.

TKO for John Ruiz!

Next: Joe Frazier vs. Leon Spinks

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It’s been exactly a year since fight #5.  Time to get this tournament going again.

By unanimous decision, the winner is… Buster Douglas!

Next bout: Shannon Briggs vs. John Ruiz

Stay tuned!

The first fight ended in a draw, so here’s the second attempt at this fight.

By unanimous decision, the winner is… MIKE TYSON!

Next bout: Buster Douglas vs. Andrew Golota.

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I finally had a fight go the distance.

And it turned out to be a draw.

I guess I’ll need to have a rematch at some point to resolve this draw.

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“Some say Lewis retired to avoid this fight.” – Scott Bullerwell

If the results of this table top simulation is any indication, Scott was right.

Klitschko knocks out Lewis at 1:38 in the first round.

I meant to start this fight this morning, before going to work, and continue when I got home.  I didn’t think it would be over before finishing the round.

Next up: David Tua vs. Mike Tyson.

Stay tuned!

Hopefully tonight or soon-ish:

Three FIVE titanic battles!

Once I get through these fights, we can move on to round 2 of the Scott Bullerwell Heavyweight Invitational Tournament.

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Fight 3 of the Scott Bullerwell Invitational:

Dempsey knocks out Fury 23 seconds into round 9.

This was a battle.  Fury kept coming back despite the punishment Dempsey was giving him, but Fury’s fatigue got to him as Dempsey finished him off.

The judges gave round 5 to Dempsey despite the fact that Fury had landed more punches.

Next up: Wladimir Kiltschko vs. Lennox Lewis

Stay tuned!