Hasim Rahman Appreciation Thread

I think Rahman had a great career when you examine the list you wrote, TS.

Corrie Sanders- great win, great fight to watch
Lennox Lewis (2x)- won fair and square in the first fight, thought he landed a couple solid blows in the rematch to get LL attention (there was a left hook that made LL hold on for a few seconds, but then it was all over)
David Tua (2x)- EASILY should be 1-1, but even the stoppage loss was SO BAD and he was winning going away, you could argue he should have been 2-0
James Toney (2x)- robbed of a win with the draw, spared a loss with the NC, should be 1-1
Evander Holyfield- good scrap, bad judging and dirty fight with the headbutts, had it 4-3 for EH after 7, 5-3 if you score the partial round
John Ruiz- ugly loss and fight, probably should have trained harder
Monte Barrett- boring but solid win
Wladimir Klitschko- didn't show up, got KTFO
Alexander Povetkin- didn't show up, got KTFO

 

Ridiculous.

 

Very weird. Would love to see Rahman get some kind of vindication in this Super 8 if Tua and Maskaev join. It be fitting.

 

I know, Rahman definitely got cheated out of 2 signature wins. Tua and Toney. Would have been nice scalps on his resume, but everyone knows he should have gotten the wins instead of the draws.

 

Yeeeaaah...here's the thing though and I want you to really understand this.
GETTING HIT WITH A GOOD PUNCH DOES NOT EQUATE TO A GLASS JAW

Simpleton. :verysad

 

So when was the last time you were the undisputed champion of anything besides being a keyboard butthorn.

 

Very true he could of had an even better record that his shows. Plus a lot of the guys he fought had record of rarely if ever being knocked out let alone down (Evander, Tua, Toney). It does somehow seem unreal he never had Maskaev out cold based on his past.

Rock needs to get his shots off flat footed but faster as this is where the power is,but his slow punches are too easy to see coming. He claims to be working on this and appears to look more like his vintage self in recent pics. I sure hope so us diehard fans need some wins in the tourney!

 

He's definitely a lot lighter, and it shows. Agreed about Maskaev, unreal that he could not get the KO on him. He was knocked out cold by lesser fighters.

 

Wanna talk about awful decision, Rahman-Toney I. I never watched all the way through and scored, but I had it 9-3, Rahman, 4 close rounds that were split with each Rahman and Toney getting 2. Had I given Toney both of them, he STILL loses 7-5.

Someone was paid off...two of the judges had it 6-6 aka 114-114. Joke.

 

You got that right, he was out muscling him big time. I loved how he controlled that matchup & the jab. Toney was still good back then no doubt, lazy but good. He could not even roll Rock's punches, he coudn't escape them long arms LOL.

I really was disappointing that was a draw as Hasim hasn't had enough bad luck with judges before. The eye thing was unfortunate but I think it saved him because he was not looking good in the 2nd matchup. He may of come on later though.

I was front row to his fight against bad boy Galen Brown (LOL). Must say his lumbering & plodding were quite far from the fighter we knew of yesteryear but he's been in so many battles. I too hope he can put together one more special night for us fans.

 

Should have two wins over Tua and a win over Toney.

His resume improves greatly in that case.

Lewis, Tua x2, Sanders, Toney, Meehan, and Barrett.

with loses to Oleg x2, Lewis, Wlad, Holyfield, Ruiz.

His punching power probably overrated as Lewis was the only fighter he really laid out like that but he still hit hard and had solid offensive skills with a strong jab. Limited defensively and that cost him in his losses. A real throwback though in that he fought alot of the top names of his era.

 

Excluding the Klitschko and Povetkin fiascos, he came to fight and was exciting. When people bash Rahman, I think they are either 1) stupid 2) never saw his fights 3) DKSAB.

 

He came to fight against Wlad too, he was in decent shape for coming off an injury and being a substitute opponent.


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The Povetkin fight however was a farce.

 

His effort was very, very poor. He didn't even try against Wlad. He even said it was a 7 figure pay day and he took it.

 

Yes the effort was poor. Wlad was timid with Rock too, very cautious. He could of done more I think. Wlad's size & jab power is a bit overwhelming to take on but seriously Rock should have used his own size & physical strength to rattle him. That was an exciting time when they announced him as the replace but what a friggin let down!