Very sad news. Haugen ducked no one and fought anyone such as Whitaker and Chavez. Also had his shares of good wins over Hector Camacho, Ray Mancini, Vinny Paz. RIP Champ
RIP champ. I liked Haugen. Really solid lightweight champion with some good performances in his career. I'll always enjoy watching his batterings of those dipshits Roach and Mancini. Rest easy, Greg.
RIP... Donate Haugen Heart and BALLS to this generation batch of fighter...looking at you Tank, Teo, Shakur...
I'd fancy prime Haugen to outbox Davis. I mean, Tank might win, he's a better talent than Haugen, but he's lazy and I could see Haugen winning that fight. It's hard to tell how Davis would do against Haugen considering he's fought nothing but garbage.
I look back on those guys like Haugen etc as a sort of a lost generation. They missed out on the real proliferation of opportunity that the late 90s onwards brought and the corresponding dip in talent in the later 2000s. Timing is everything.
Yeah that's how it works. Yeah I think Mancini is just too relentless and is psychologically a lot stronger than some of these guys Tank has been fighting.
I remember reading an interview which somebody did with Haugen where he seemed to express his greatest satisfaction with the Camacho fights. He said he had "fucked with that pussy all night long" or words to that effect. He, presumably, meant the first fight. He also admitted to still fighting and having had "4 fights last year, won 3"
Mancini did duck someone though, Harry Arroyo. That fight would have been huge in Ohio, but Mancini wanted no parts of Arroyo.
