Best amatuer fights before they were pros
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Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Just seen this video from 1988 of Wayne McCullough vs Arturo Gatti in the amatuers. Wayne actually stops Gatti which is mad when you consider that he stuggled to get opponents out of there as a pro and Gatti was reknowned for his toughness.
https://twitter.com/BoxToffee/status/829790888830312448/video/1
What are the best fights you've seen by top pros who went met in the amatuers? The ones I can think of off top of my head are GGG vs Bute, Groves vs DeGale, Joshua vs Whyte (although that's somewhat stretching the 'top pros' bit).
https://twitter.com/BoxToffee/status/829790888830312448/video/1
What are the best fights you've seen by top pros who went met in the amatuers? The ones I can think of off top of my head are GGG vs Bute, Groves vs DeGale, Joshua vs Whyte (although that's somewhat stretching the 'top pros' bit).
Pedro147- Posts : 885
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Watched that fight a few weeks ago, think Gattis toughness is clear to see in the fight, McCullough snapped his head back a times and he still kept coming.
McCullough clearly more developed at that stage and the more rounded boxer
McCullough clearly more developed at that stage and the more rounded boxer
marty2086- Posts : 11208
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Pryor Hearns was a lively tussle in the amateurs. Pryor the same all action style we saw as a pro... Tommy as a teenage lightweight!
milkyboy- Posts : 7762
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milkyboy wrote:Pryor Hearns was a lively tussle in the amateurs. Pryor the same all action style we saw as a pro... Tommy as a teenage lightweight!
With the same physical dimensions?? What an absolute freakshow!!
TopHat24/7- Posts : 17008
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Not a lot of fat on him toppy no,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUhD_g48_Q
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUhD_g48_Q
milkyboy- Posts : 7762
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Pryor doesn't look that short compared to Hearns. I think there was about 6 inches difference.milkyboy wrote:Not a lot of fat on him toppy no,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUhD_g48_Q
Atila- Posts : 1711
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
Jorge Luis Gonzalez vs Lennox Lewis was a pretty good scrap for big men (Gonzalez got a debateable decision). JLG also knocked Riddick Bowe TFO (KO punch is on YouTube somewhere).
There's plenty of Kostya Tszyu out there (what an amateur he was): vs Vernon Forrest and Terron Millett for example.
David Haye vs Jim Twite is a personal favourite!
Roy Jones vs Gerald McClellan (won by the latter) is the one that got away.
There's plenty of Kostya Tszyu out there (what an amateur he was): vs Vernon Forrest and Terron Millett for example.
David Haye vs Jim Twite is a personal favourite!
Roy Jones vs Gerald McClellan (won by the latter) is the one that got away.
hazharrison- Posts : 7540
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
... yeh meant to have been a good tussle that last one. It's one that got away in the pro's too - what a fight that would have been, were it not for the fateful benn fight.
milkyboy- Posts : 7762
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
... and as for the twite fight, any fight where haye gets flattened is ok by me too!
milkyboy- Posts : 7762
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Re: Best amatuer fights before they were pros
[quote="hazharrison"]Jorge Luis Gonzalez vs Lennox Lewis was a pretty good scrap for big men (Gonzalez got a debateable decision). JLG also knocked Riddick Bowe TFO (KO punch is on YouTube somewhere).
Here's the Bowe KO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3k71ogKmY
And there's two parts of the Lewis - Gonzalez fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wg8BCgDmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCap3m4hnE8
Here's the Bowe KO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3k71ogKmY
And there's two parts of the Lewis - Gonzalez fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wg8BCgDmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCap3m4hnE8
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