Michael Nunn

Nunn was a very good fighter. Good combination punching fighter. Slapped a bit with his punches and didnt get ultimate leverage and was a little underpowered but a solid technician inside and out.

 

well him and king flew over to britain so they could pick the winner of the eubank-benn match. all seemed to have a gentlemans agreement that we'll get this division unified.

king was happy. if benn won, benn is managed by him so thats good if he wins because he can fight nunn and the winner of that is unified undisputed. and if eubank had to signa a subcontract for eubanks to fight benn. either way he has got it.
so you had king and michael among the commentators having interviews saying who will win. king laughing and talking about the odds.....with john mcririck :blood(these 2 guys meeting is arguably the penultimate of eccentricity).

so everything set. benn and eubank set off on the wbc wbo unification match and the biggest domestic match outside possibly lewis-bruno. and the winner fight nunn and unifies the division




.....and it's a draw the look on kings face is priceless, nunn gets interviewed by jim rosenthall saying "who do you think won" responded with "oh,oh it's a great fight" then being dragged off by some of the king entourage. then theres king and michael in the post fight room analysing the match. king looking dejected nunn looking out of place.

but whatever them 2 might fight a rematch, and michael needs a fight. we'll fight somebody in th euk to keep the hype up. why not this steve littles charecter...


i think benn and eubank would of got to him. nunn wasnt focused enough around this point, he dropped his hands and seemed to trust his toughness to take punches in his later career. benn was argueably harder to hit than eubank around this time. his shoulder roll counter and his side movement was better and more reformed than his former guns blazing self.

 

That's because he was facing a peak Nunn. I guarantee you Pavlik would've looked even worse.

 

Yeah Tate was sort of like a better, more technically talented version of Taylor.

Like Taylor he didn't quite seem to know what kind of fighter he wanted to be though,and also like Taylor he never looked like a smart thinking man's fighter in there.Just used his tools robotically.

Nunn's unorthodox intuitive style combined with his talent just totally befuddled him.You would need to watch his fights beforehand to get a better measure of him.Against a faded Sibson and the then massively overhyped Olajide especially.he looked good enough in that one that many were rating above the likes of McCallum...though obviously wrongly in hindsight.

 

Addie..... Tate didnt win one SECOND of the Nunn fight, nevermind a round. You REALLY need to rewatch that fight. It was a complete and utter blow out.

And Tate wasnt a bad fighter at all. I'd say he was a technically better version of Jermain Taylor.

 

Yeah, I don't see how your expectations could be any higher. Nunn looked like a superstar against Tate.

For two years, Nunn was considered #3 on the P4P list behind Tyson, and Chavez. And it wasnt for no reason.

And how do you not think highly on Pavlik, yet value Taylor?

In any case....... Nunn would have beaten both Pav and Taylor VERY easily.

 

Watch Taylor STRUGGLE and barely beat Cory Spinks, then tell me he'd be competitive with a prime Nunn.

Nunn would beat the crap outta Taylor, just as he did Tate.

 

Barkley was definitely a better fighter then Taylor. Better chin, more power, better body punching, etc.

 

You see the same Nunn in the Barkley, Starling, and Curry fights as you saw in the 3 preceding fights with Kalambay, Roldan, and Tate? He looked like a million bucks in the former 3, the end being right around the time he started to dabble in the nose-candy, and as a result right around the time his career started to do a nose-dive. He looked completely lethargic by comparison in the latter 3 fights.

Actually, he looked a lot better against Toney before getting caught than he did in either of the previous 3 fights. You say he wasn't up to much when initiating the action, but I thought he looked very good in doing so against Toney, even getting the better of the in-fighting for long stretches.

All in all, he was just another example of a fighter who blew it based on his out of the ring choices. For a short period he was an exceptional talent, though.