Since bantam was the first division mentioned... Medel obviously, little explanation needed. Jibaro Perez with his freakish height and offensive...
Yeah, Chucho was a bit too good. Salavarria maybe. Very few if any weaknesses other than a predilection for the old roids and a fine, well...
Oguma I think qualifies. The epitome of workmanlike. Zaragoza maybe to a lesser extent. Brazier and Mitchell were good shouts by grey. Sahaprom?...
I always tend to think that Ortiz was too much of a physical freak at lightweight with atg strength to be quite a very good at everything but...
Canto was my first thought. I don't think Pea quite qualifies, he was a stinging, spiteful puncher who could stop fighters in their tracks and has...
A lot of fighters would have killed for the physical and technical tools he had at his disposal. Big power, an atg chin, decent handspeed,...
Lots of great mentions thus far. Harada for post-war Japan when the gyms were booming, the economy growing and the country emerging from...
Rose was mentioned earlier and as far as Aussies go, I was just thinking that Fammo, Carruthers and Darcy were all done or dead by 25, 24 and 21...
Marcel because of his early retirement I think. Macias too.
Ramos too. Ultiminio.
Carasquilla maybe. No great fighter and ruined early on by the disaster against Hong, but a real talent. Tae Shik Kim too, though he did win a title.
McGowan vs Medel. Walter got walked onto one of Medel's death traps in the first but rallied really well for a few rounds before getting too...
Curry vs the poor Ali clone hype job LaRocca?
I was trying to think of some examples of Napoles tbh and Lewis is a good one.
Duran vs Buchanan, Fernandez, Marcel Zarate vs Puppy Hernandez Kim vs Ibarra Laciar vs Mathebula Ortiz vs Laguna III, Bizzarro Chavez vs Castillo...
Ooh, was it mate? Most happy to be of help, though in this case, help I absolutely do not remember giving. The other day though, I threw a twenty...
Kim blitzkrieging Ibarra in two is cool. A bit wild and loading up, swinging for the hills and all that, with Ibarra being somewhat static against...
Do we think Chavez-Rosario qualifies? Chavez wasn't a swarmer so much as an aggressive boxer-puncher but he really stifled and suffocated Rosario...
Mosley-Mayorga iirc looked they'd had their arms straitjacketed to each other for 11 and three quarter rounds after twenty pints of cider apiece....
Payakaroon is a great shout despite us only really seeing a shard of his potential when he didn't have the stomach for it anymore. A proper shame....
Cardona -Avelar was a left hook wasn't it? Ironically the monstrous Jacksonesque puncher the one being knocked face first spark out. The ref just...
Gonzalez-Sor Rungvisai II Tiger-Griffith II Griffith-Archer II Watanabe-Poonterat II
For varying reasons and to varying degrees, all fighters I've either never been a fan of and/or rated highly in comparison to their numbers:...
What does everyone make of Nietes and Ancajas?
I think Al has looked for it for years without joy, been a long time since I've spoken to him though. Great bloke. What George said rings a bell...
This.
I was punting on there being loads of granddads under 40 in Manchester if I'm being honest, and I distinctly remember you saying that you're 7.
We're probably a similar age tbf mucker.
He was one fecking heck of a fighter. Beast. Yeah, it's an insult comparing Hatton to him, and I went to many of Ricky's fights over the years...
I'll have to rewatch the Nietes fight, I was tired and distracted at the time but vaguely recall thinking that Donnie was good for the win tbh...
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