Who can stop Mike Mccallum?

Wait a minute

He barely edged Herol Graham and lost to Sumbu Kalambay and James Toney at 160 lbs.

Prime Roy Jones would have decisioned him at 160 lbs.

Prime Marvin Hagler would have been favored to beat him.

Prime Hopkins and McCallum would be a good matchup.

Hearns could have outpointed him at 154 lbs.

He was best at 154 lbs.

True is absolute prime was at 154 lbs.

 

If you mean beat him then look at some of the names above. If you mean actually stop him , that s a different matter. The guys got a atg chin.

 

Oh. If he means knockout, yea, probably nobody.

 

Mike had a great chin which I always felt was connected to his intense Jamaican pride.

I would wager a peak Curry may have succeeded in stopping him with repeated combination after combination down a 15 round stretch

But more likely Hagler is the one to do it. Marvin was a force of nature when he chose to be.

 

There's a correlation between nationalism and chin strength?

 

Davey Moore had a good shot, if the Duran fight didn't do him in.

 

Too good ... McCallum was an exceptional fighter that no one wanted to touch .. at 154 he beats Leonard, Duran and Hearns. I think at 160 a fight between him and Hgtler would have been pickem. No one knocks him out because he had an iron chin and was very hard to hit ... as an old man prime Toney and Jones could not stop him.

 

We'v seen Mike hurt a few times but he recovers well. I really can't see him being stopped but i'd give Hearns at 154 the best chance. I think he and Hagler would be a chess match. Monzon might be similar.

 

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Probebly wouldnt happen but Monzon Burley Hagler and Hearns.

 

The G-Man would have as good a shot as anyone.......

 

he was overrated in the foot speed area, which is how you beat him. Hearns could have outjabbed him if Tommy was the Benitez -Hearns. The post Hagler Hearns was a little diminished,and that is the Hearns everyone wanted to fight. But the pre Hagler Hearns was the guy who would outpoint Mike, and believe it or not I think Hagler would knock out Mike. not many guys would.

 

Lol I like that..........

Ill explain myself. Lol this is too funny.

Yes Mike Mccallum had that intense Jamaican macho pride of the time......(the 1970s and 1980s- the whole burgeoning reggae music scene, the anger at Mandela's incarceration, Bob Marley, the Rastafarian ethos, the sense of injustice at society) there are no doubts these things all shaped Mccallums personality into that tough as nails don't give an inch and don't ask for one either mentality. The physical toughness and refusal to quit........I have termed it "intense Jamaican pride"......I guess its modern day equivalent is Mexican cojones......

This was a characteristic typical of many Jamaican extraction fighters of the time.......Lloyd Honeyghan, Mike Mccallum, Frank Bruno (who it would take a sledgehammer to fell), Lennox Lewis who never wanted any man to have the last say, Livingstone bramble, Dennis Andries one of the toughest fighters of the last 50 years and Carl Thompson etc etc etc

 

Lol apparently if you are proud of the country you are from your chin becomes better. Or maybe if you are just proud of being Jamaican your chin will get better.