Joined after lurking on here for ages because I saw this thread and wanted to say many thanks to the poster for the recent pics of some of the fighters. I loved the 'Video Magazines' and they're still some of the, if not the, best rough/nhb catfights to this day in my opinion. I'm a big fan of 'real' fights and it's sad that there is so little of that out there now.
I'm currently doing some conversions for personal use from some of the fights on the Video Magazines that I own using video AI software. It cleans up the picture, rebalances the colours as best it can (a lot of these are badly oversaturated like a lot of cheap video from the period), bob deinterlaces every field so you got a much smoother 60fps, and brings the resolution up to 1080p. Obviously, we're still talking really old source material, so if you try putting them on a 65" OLED screen they'll look poor, but this process is making them much more watchable on, for example, laptop or tablet panels.
So far I've done a couple and the results are decent...it took a while to find the best AI presets and options, and it takes HOURS to process even a short fight, but I just set it before I go to sleep. They certainly look wayyyyy better than the digital conversions that are still being sold out there on official sties at crappy resolutions and codecs from 15 years ago! Lot smoother in motion too.
It would be great to get more modern fights like these again though.