Aaron Pryor vs Kostya Tszyu

I'd prefer you use yours for learning actual history. not trying to make hot takes about an era you know nothing about.

 

Steve's still more or less a newbie to boxing. Anything that happened over ten years ago, he'll no nothing about.

 

He's one of the most overrated fighters of all time. He went life and death with Arguello too. He'd likely gotten KTFO if he fought a good durable puncher cause he was susceptible to getting caught when he got wild.

 

None of that is true.

Plenty of fights have been stopped by the corner between rounds when they have had that 60 seconds to take a closer look at their fighter. Angelo Dundee literally stopped Ali from going out for round 11 against Holmes. Ali didn't quit. His corner stopped that fight.

Tszyu did not quit in either fight that he lost. That is a fallacy that the ignorant play over and over in their feeble minds to justify a position against that particular fighter. The genesis of this discussion was when the resident idiot said that Tszyu had "too much quit in him." Kostya Tszyu had no quit in him whatsoever. Go and have a look at his brutal war with Diosbelys Hurtado as an example. Kostya was down twice in the first round and was in all sorts of trouble against the excellent Hurtado before coming back to win by KO in the 5th. And Hurtado was a legitimate world class talent who had only one loss prior to Tszyu and that was by late stoppage to Pernell Whitaker.

 

Yes amateur records matter. Tszyu, World Amateur Champion, something Pryor and Hearns never achieved. Your reply is irrelevant to the original post that I replied to.

 

Pryor's style is all wrong for Tszyu. The hawk by tko.

 

Yeah lad Tsyzu is just straight up and down aye can't handle that American style yeah

 

He has shown to have problems with guys with pryors style. And pryor is much better than cool Vince and hatton.

 

Yeah lad Tszyu lost to Phillips he sucks aye he is lunch meat for the Hawk yeah

 

He doesn't suck he's a hof fighter but Pryor is better and a stylistic nightmare for him.

 

Nah lad Tszyu is straight up and down aye. Pryor would be a nightmare for him would probably stop him within 3 rounds easy work.

 

These initial responses are hilarious and speaks to how far this forum has fallen in quality. Pryor would eat Tszyu alive. Questioning Pryor's resume to boost Tszyu's is comical considering that even faded Arguello and Cervantes were better than anyone Tszyu beat.

Pryor's buzzsaw attack wouldn't allow Tszyu the time and space he needed to operate, and in a grueling war, Tszyu being the front runner that he was would lose heart.

Pryor TKO 9.