Underrated wins...

Never saw him, but his record is pretty gakky

 

Who?

 

I'll be DAMNED!!! I thought it was gone!

Cheers!

 

Now that’s a bold statement. LaRocca was majorly backed prior to Curry. After that he was just looked at as a quintessential hype job. For good reason, to be fair. He looked the part and amassed a glossy record on the way up, then came undone when faced with the elite. And that was that.

Carr still looked the part against the elites he faced. Or close to, anyway. Good enough to give them all good fights, but not enough to join their ranks. Plus, he actually bounced back from big losses.

 

I agree that larocca was a hype job

 

How’d you find that? Can’t be searched and doesn’t even show up under the uploader’s videos.

 

He might have found it via Asian Boxing. They direct you to a lot of unlisted videos.

 

Yeah, Asian Boxing is the way. I also had it saved in my boxing playlist so it was fairly easy to find again.

 

Manny Pacquiao beating Chatchai Sasakul doesn't get mentioned enough but that was a good win over a solid fighter who had just beaten Yuri Arbachakov.

Old Michael Carbajal stopping Jorge Arce.

Marco Antonio Barrera beating Johnny Tapia.

Miguel Lora beating Daniel Zaragoza and Wilfredo Vazquez.

Sumbu Kalambay beating Iran Barkley for the MW title, who would go on to stop Hearns the following year.

Marlon Starling stopping Lloyd Honeyghan, the same fighter that broke Donald Curry.

 

Carbajal over Arce is a really good shout, Flo.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't Carbajal the only guy who beat Arce at 108?

And Carbajal was well past his prime.

 

Actually Arce was beaten twice at 108 prior to his fight with Carbajal while he was coming up. When he fought a past prime Carbajal he had already won a title and made 1 successful defense. Carbajal managed to stop Arce while behind on points and it would end up being his last fight while Arce went on to win a title and make several successful defenses before moving up.

Definitely a good example of the old pro beating the rising star. A very nice way to end your career on top.

 

It's probably good he had prior losses. If that happened today and he was undefeated Arce would have been written off by fans and his own management as having no future.

Even if he won but struggled it would be "imagine if that was prime Carbajal in there".

 

As strange as it may seem now, Arce was more of a boxer/mover down at 108 and seemed averse to getting caught up in inside exchanges.

What a difference 4 pounds makes.

 

Del Flanagan UD10 Sandy Saddler

 

Eddie Booker's KO of Archie Moore.

Charley Burley is glorified for beating Moore in a fight he took on short notice, but Booker had stopped Moore just a few months earlier (the first stoppage loss of Moore's career) at a time when Booker was reportedly suffering from vision problems that would force his retirement just a few months later.