Nigel Benn's Best Performance

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by sas6789, Dec 28, 2012.


  1. Cableaddict

    Cableaddict Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Benn vs Mclellan was like Hagler vs Hearns, only longer. Brutal back & forth action. At one point, I didn't think Benn was gonna' get up, yet he not only got up, but immediately started landing uppercuts.

    Incredible.

    I've only seen a few other Benn fights, but they were all entertaining. The guy always seemed to really want it. Probably one of the best fighters in any division, ever.

    It kills me that Hagler didn't hang on a few more years. It would have been conceivable for he and Benn to have fought, and that would really have been something.
     
  2. Cableaddict

    Cableaddict Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Say, you know who kinda' reminds me of Nigel Benn, though maybe a tad slower & sloppier?

    Keith Thurmon.
     
  3. MAG1965

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    the way they fought was similar to Hagler and Hearns. They just collided, and Benn was too quick for Barkley. Nigel's career is underrated. Nigel was such a hard puncher, then he improved later on and became more than just a puncher.
     
  4. Loggo

    Loggo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Iran Barkley easily had the tools to ko Nigel Benn.His problem of course was so evident watching that fight.He fought with his hands down and chin out.Got knocked out and whinged about it afterwards.He didn`t prepare himself properly,didn`t respect Benns power and paid for it.
     
  5. PrinceN

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    Roy would have killed this guy
     
  6. Earl-hickey

    Earl-hickey Boxing Junkie banned

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    "would have"

    story of jones' career
     
  7. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    lookie, lookie who history will remember the best

    there's a good reason for that

    leave the blind patriot at home and learn to think about what you're posting
     
  8. Earl-hickey

    Earl-hickey Boxing Junkie banned

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    history can remember what it want's

    I'll always remember jones prone on the canvas, many, many times
     
  9. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    yeah but not during his prime ;)

    like hopkins, it's only after both these great fighter were in their forties and past their best that blinkered posters like yourself try to score points against them on britain's behalf

    i don't mind if you don't like either jones or hopkins so long as you can debate your point well, but you only do it because you're british and butthurt

    get over it, it's petty and pointless
     
  10. Earl-hickey

    Earl-hickey Boxing Junkie banned

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    why don't you, and t bag **** off out of a benn thread and start your own one wanking off about jones then.

    "oooh but he wasn't ko'd in his prime"

    Yeah because he didn't step up to Glen Johnson level until his miraculous chin vanishing from a crash diet.

    Nowadays he sells his ass, and braincells for crack money, to the highest bidder.

    But it's alrigh, when he's braindamaged you can say "he wasn't a drooling vegetable in his prime though, USA! USA! USA!"

    Now, kindly **** off
     
  11. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    yeah, a glen johnson win would've been so much bigger than his hopkins win...

    if you're a bad loser, don't debate to begin with

    i'm not a flag waver, i'm just speaking the truth

    you just need to grow up and stop taking the achievements of others so seriously
     
  12. Earl-hickey

    Earl-hickey Boxing Junkie banned

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    again, why the **** are you in a benn thread?

    typical yanks, "ooh someone talking good about someone not american? time to stick our noses in and start going on about OUR achievments instead"


    **** off.
     
  13. Leftsmash

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    Yeah if you wanna add McCllenan and the amount of Rabbit punching Benn got away with.
     
  14. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    you're making a fool of yourself
    you won't find one thread of mine - not one - where i'm trying to trumpet the US

    but here you are, getting all pissed off because you didn't like me replying to you whe you implied that jones should have done all the work to fight benn

    keep it comin' though if you feel the need too...
     
  15. Earl-hickey

    Earl-hickey Boxing Junkie banned

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    TAKE A LOOK HOW THE CONVERSATION STARTED

    You peon.

    And it IS the story of Jones' career, oh he would of beat him, yeah yeah yeah

    Would of is an opinion.