Educate me about Vaughn Bean

Looks like just from Boxrec (I know, I know) he was sort of built up and fed guys till his record looked good for a defence?

 

I just remember his fights with Holyfield and Moorer. He was a durable guy that got a couple of title shots but wasn't really anything more than opponent. He was a bit undersized as well.

 

I don't know much outside of Holyfield vs. Bean.

Definitely a weird fight.
Holyfield's return to Atlanta spoiled, and he gassed out, got punched a lot. Holyfield won clearly but Bean tempered the homecoming excitement and showed that Holyfield was certainly past his best. It was an interesting one and Bean surprised me. Bean was landing winging overhands and left hooks. He hung in there with Holyfield. Bean just got outworked in a tough, pretty close fight where he landed some memorable shots. The arena was nearly silent for rounds. Bean showed a lot of heart in this fight. If he didn't get dropped he probably would have made it a lot closer because he was winning that round big.

I haven't watched his fight vs Moorer. Might take a look at it

 

We called him The Uncrowned King.

He was that good.

 

I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as an undersized Heavyweight here on the Classic Forum.

I think you're right though. Pretty sure he was viewed as nothing more than an opponent in his title fights. He really didn't beat a single quality opponent in his career. He usually gave a good account of himself when he stepped up, but lost on every such occasion. He could have been an interesting Cruiserweight.

 

Around town, we had this saying.

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Vaughn Bean."
"Vaughn B-"
"That's right! Vaughn Bean HAVIN' YOUR LADY ON THE DAILY!"

I think it was more of a joke than a saying and it mostly meant Vaughn Bean was having sexual intercourse with your woman, extra-monogamously. Like, she been cheatin' on you with Vaughn Bean. I think that's what that meant.

 

I would not trust Vaughn Bean around your female significant others. Because he's been doing that so much that it's like a joke now.

 

I was at the Holyfield fight. Evander beat him but never really shook loose of him to gain a decisive upper hand.

Awkward and durable guy. Only stoppage loss in 51 fights (granted, the majority of them were against ham-and-eggers with losing records, but not all) was on his feet vs. Wlad Klitschko. (Or was it Vitali … I forget?)

Promoted iirc by Murad Muhammad or maybe it was Butch Lewis, but someone with a few skins in the game who must have been owed some favors. Nothing in his record really qualified him for his shot at Michael Moorer, but he lost a majority decision so he marked time with a few meaningless wins and found himself gifted another chance, this time vs. Holyfield.

Thing is, while he was more of a spoiler and didn’t commit to a lot thus rarely gave good openings to opponents, he never really had a bad loss. Competed well with Moorer and Holy and at the very least hung in there with others who beat him. Would have been interesting to see him fight a few more contenders while still in his prime, if he can truly be said to ever have one.

We know these two immutable truths:

1) He was better than Butterbean

2) He was nowhere nearly as entertaining as Mister Bean

 

Found this on wiki:

“Vaughn Bean is a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a Bounty Hunter. He uses his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects (especially stunts involving cars or his large GMC pickup truck) to capture fugitives and criminals. He is accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training, Lionel Butler and occasionally by fellow stuntwoman Kelly Maloney.”

 

He came up as a prospect the same time as Rahman and Tshabalala. He was not considered a can't miss type guy & fought on undercards for quite a while. Once he stepped up to the top 10, the going got rough. He took a real licking against Vitali and that did not help his career 1 iota.

 

Well connected ,that's why he got shots he wasn't entitled to, a moderate fighter.

 

He was a quality fighter with poor list of wins.

His best opponents whom he defeated were tough jorneyman Marion Wilson and teenage Maurice Harris.

Bean showed his quality in losses. He clearly lost both title fights but he was very competitive against Moorer and Holyfield.

Later in his career he gave a good fight to Tony Thompson and was blatantly robbed vs Yanke Diaz and Dimitrenko (Bean dropped Dimitrenko with bodyshots but the referee took 2 points off of Bean instead of counting the KDs. Shortly thereafter Eddie Chambers defeated Dimitrenko using the same style as Bean).

The only time where he was completely outboxed and stopped on his feet was against Vitali who was on a good ran back then.

 

An absolute monster when he showed up in sweatpants and won the Toughman contest.

 

Be a top 10 heavyweight in the Wilder/Fury era.