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You can only imagine what they felt like when the woke up the next morning.

The epic final set between American John Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon — which finished 70 games to 68 Thursday — has ripped up the game’s record books. The set alone is longer than any match in Wimbledon’s history.

Isner beats Mahut 70-68 in fifth set of Wimbledon epic

But Isner and Mahut will have to go some way to match CNN’s 10 epic sporting battles. They aren’t playing with broken hands, after all…

Boxing: Andy Bowen vs. Jack Burke (1893)

Some people may balk at the brutality of boxing these days, but back in the 19th-century the sport was a vicious endurance match, where round limits were dismissed as the effeminate ramblings of molly coddled liberals. Nature would take its course and the weak would eventually succumb.

But when Andy Bowen and Jack Burke took to the ring at New York’s Olympic Club in 1893, both men staggered on through 110 rounds of brutal pugilism.

By the end of the fight Burke had broken all the bones in both of his hands. His wrists were broken too. In the end, the referee declared a draw, telling the crowd that the men could split the purse having “earned their money”.

Still, not everyone was happy. “There were thousands of people there, many of them laboring men,” wrote the New York Times’ boxing reporter. “And it was almost time for them to go to their breakfast. Men were asleep in their seats and the disgust was general.”

Soccer: KK Palace vs. FC Civics Windhoek (2005)

The Namibian football league isn’t renowned for producing many moments that reverberate around the world, but that changed after a Namibian Cup tie in 2005. When the cup holders FC Civics Windhoek took on KK Palace, the match ended in a 2-2 draw. It was time to decide the match by penalties. Designed as a quick — if painful — way of deciding a tie, it took 48 kicks to separate the teams.

“The penalties were going on and on and on and on and on and on,” recalled Titus Kunamuene, head of competitions at the Namibian Football Association, who was at the match. “Civics had the national team goalkeeper you see, and KK Palace were in the second division at the time so had nothing to lose.”

In the end it was the underdog that prevailed, KK Palace squeezing through 17-16. Did Kunamuene feel he had just witnessed a little slice of footballing history? “We didn’t think it was record but I am very proud,” he told CNN. “But, really, at the end of the game everybody was more relieved than anything else”

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A year ago, Farrah Fawcett‘s passing was the biggest entertainment news of the day. For about four hours.

It’s nobody’s fault our heads were turned by the sudden death of Michael Jackson. The truth is, these things happen. And they’ve happened to these star-crossed notables, too:

1. Mother Teresa: When Princess Diana‘s death prompted global mourning in 1997, it was asked if the grieving would be as great for the sainted nun of Calcutta. The answer came just days after Diana’s death when Teresa passed away at age 87. And, suffice to say, Elton John didn’t rewrite any of his songs for her. (Not that he was obliged to, miind you. We’re just saying.)

2. Brad Renfro: It was one thing for the promising actor’s overdose death at age 25 to be overshadowed exactly one week later by Heath Ledger‘s own overdose death. It was another to be excluded from the following year’s Academy Awards’ tribute segment, despite solid credits and solid work in everything from The Client to Bully.

3. Vaughn Meader: If you have no idea who Vaughn Meader, that’s why he’s on this list. In the early 1960s, Meader released what would become the best-selling comedy album of all-time, and won two Grammys, including Album of the Year. Then on Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated, and Meader, who was famous for imitating JFK, “died,” too. At least that’s what Meader said right up until the day he really died—in 2004.

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