Greg Haugen: how good was he?

If "Hector's heart wasn't into it, than that was his own fault for going into the ring unprepared, not Haugen's:-(, and Camacho lost points in the fault for stupid ****, again his own fault, Haugen won the match straight up....

Haugen was a scrapper a good fighter with Balls, beat Vinny Paz, Jimmy Paul, Camacho, and Ray Mancini...

Not HOF material, but had a career to be proud of...

Last i heard anything about him about 2 or 3 years ago he was broke and living in a friends apartment, in some Redneck town up in Washington state..

 

Greg Haugen wasn't close to being a Boxing Hall of Fame fighter, but was a capable one with some skill and plenty of heart who had a fairly good career.

- Chuck Johnston

 

Good post. And sad to hear that life hasn't been particularly good to him as of late. His trilogy with Pazienza was comparable to that of Gatti vs Ward in my opinion and like you said he had some good wins. Not a hall of famer but a very good career.

 

Had good skills and made the most for what he had. Fought smart, within his capabilities, always came inshape and to give his all. Seemed like a good guy too!

 

That's how I feel too. His fights with Pazienza were thrillers

 

Haugen was an old school cutie with lots of subtle tricks and tremendous heart. He got his start in Tough Man competitions in Alaska beating up heavyweights for cash in hand.

To say that Camacho was shot when he faced Haugen is just plain wrong. He was only 28 or 29 and had quite a bit left in the tank. He had beaten Tony Baltazar and Paz in his previous two fights.

Haugen is not Hall of Fame but he was world class.

 

Haugen was as tough as nails fighter, who is greatly under appreciated and underrated. Greg's abilties were very deceiving in that he seemingly did not do any one thing extremely well, but in fact did almost all things very well. Add a exceptional chin and true tough guy attitude and you had a very good fighter.

 

"Very faded" Hector Camacho was 2 yrs younger than Haugen. As were Chavez and Pazienza. Mancini was only 1 yr younger. Grover Wiley was 14 yrs younger and Haugen did better dan Chavez did egeinst him. Tony Lopez was 3 yrs younger and was it a cachw8 fight ? Whitaker 4 yrs younger .
Jeff Bumpus 2 yrs younger.
Only Jimmy Paul was 1 yr older but was 27 wen hi lost 2 Haugen. Probably w8dreind dow.
woz 33 yrs old in hiz 1st stopej los
3 taims taitelist , 2 w8s taitelist.
Sapowz det hi iz not HOF worty (wors faiters wer indakted) , bat I shur du not now wer d certenti det hi iz iven not klows 2 it kams from

 

he was ok at everything, but a front runner type. HOF? no way.. good? yeah a good fight for people, but Chavez really beat him easily.

 

It's embarrassing for people who only know Haugen for the Chavez fight to comment on this thread.

 

Greg is interesting to me because we're both living in Auburn, Washington and he's a bit of a local legend.

There are a million stories out there about his behavior out of the ring......nothing too evil, just stuff you shake your head at or maybe chuckle. There was the time he participated years ago in a charity golf tournament, something to benefit a children's group or something similar. He was beligerent, swearing the whole time as he played. Someone asked him to tone it down and he threw the clubs, and challenged the poor guy tasked with the job "YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME??? YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME????"

Then there was the radio show he had a regular part in, where he reviewed new films coming out, of all things. It was done for comedy effect, though Greg was just playing it straight, being himself. Every other word was cussing, and half his radio spot was bleeped out to satisfy the FCC. Good ol' Greg.

Aside from that, I like Greg, because he's one of those guys who had no real standout gifts. He wasn't terribly fast, carried little power, wasn't real physically strong. Everything he was had been created in the gym and toughman bar rooms; he learned his craft as well as one with no real gifts could learn them. One should respect that, instead of mindlessly parroting "Chavez" every time his name comes up.

 

Greg should be in Hall of Fame

 

good fighter, tough kid