Shawn Porter beat Usyk in the amateurs...

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  1. bruce_keyes

    bruce_keyes Well-Known Member Full Member

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    hard to believe that porter stayed the exact same weight in the amateurs at 17, as he did in the pros ... almost nobody does that. besides maybe the featherweights or flyweights
     
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  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Yeah he would be a handful for sure lol
     
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  3. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    No I'm saying that propping guys up as all time greats because they have a **** load of ametuer wins or maybe touting a cruiserweight as someone who will run through the heavyweight division because he beat a few heavyweights while they were ametuers is pointless. Kind of the like "he beat him in sparring 10 years ago" argument. All of this should be more or less ignored when discussing professional boxing but instead these occurrences are cherry picked to prop certain guys up to be more than what they've actually accomplished as professional atheltes
     
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  4. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    I've seen plenty of Olympic medalists do nothing as pros so I don't see a big difference
     
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  5. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    No I'm saying that all ametuer bouts are essentially irrelevant
     
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    Pretty meaningless, imo.
     
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  7. Forza

    Forza Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    porters style must have been a nightmare in the am's
     
    Forza, Oct 14, 2019
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  8. LeftRightDownThePipe

    LeftRightDownThePipe Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Hahahahahaha!!! :D

    Usyk by mutilation
     
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  9. LeftRightDownThePipe

    LeftRightDownThePipe Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Crazy! And what were those dudes names that whooped Floyd in the ams again??? Floyd is LUCKY they didn’t go pro huh?!
     
    LeftRightDownThePipe, Oct 14, 2019
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  10. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    porter is younger
     
    Ph33rknot, Oct 14, 2019
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  11. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    how did the Am points system work
     
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  12. LeftRightDownThePipe

    LeftRightDownThePipe Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Then Shawn should step on up and take the old man Usyk out huh?!

    How old was Shawn when he first laced up gloves? Usyk was 15. And did Porter win a world championship and Gold? I forget.
     
    LeftRightDownThePipe, Oct 14, 2019
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  13. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    dude come on a year
     
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  14. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    Used to be touch count when Porter and Usyk were amateurs. They changed it to new scoring parameters more similar to pro in recent years.
     
    IntentionalButt, Oct 14, 2019
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  15. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    right on thanks I need to look in to it more
     
    Ph33rknot, Oct 14, 2019
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