Which boxer would scare you the most to run into a dark alley with ?

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  1. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    For me it's Tyson and Foreman
     
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    Aleksandr Emelianenko did some boxing, so him.

    Better known names that are scary: Ibeabuchi, and maybe Chisora.

    Let's face it: any good boxer would turn most of us into coleslaw. So the real question is about how crazy they are, and therefore likely to actually do something to ya. Aleks beat up an old man in a bar for laughing too loudly. Yeah, that's one mother****er you don't want to meet in a dark corner.
     
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    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    Smaller boxers have an advantage in street fights obviously, but its not always as much of a cake walk for them as people like to think. At the end of the day its a street fight and a bantamweight or someone of a similar size is going to be in for a rough night if a big heavy construction worker gets a hold of them. MW and above are going to lay most untrained guys on the planet out no problem. But there are still always x factors in street fights to consider.
     
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    Imagine strolling up on a dark alley in Samaria, Panama just to take a quick **** hoping you get out of that hellhole quickly and then you turn around to be met with two dark, pitch black, abyssal apex predator eyes of Roberto Duran
     
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  5. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    One who has a gun or knife.

    Worst case with any of the others is they beat you up. I’ve been beat up before.
     
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    Tony Ayala Jr.

    A 19 year old kid with drug issues and assault / burglary charges, no thanks man.
     
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    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    Nutters who get off on Bullying & Hurting people,

    Boxing surely must have certainly attracted a good few thousand of them.
     
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    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    my Grandfather was one of them, a MW cum L-HW, who after Boxing, and outside of Couching & Training Top Fighters was a hired Minder, he ran & protected Illegal Gambling Tossing Schools, where bare knuckle fights were sometimes part of the program, he worked Glasgow Betting shops and was a Minder for some leading Bookies.

    funny enough, my other Grandfather on my Dad's side a very gentle man, was a 'runner' for a time for local small town Bookies, but that was a relatively non-involved fairly tempered role.
     
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    Overhand94 Active Member Full Member

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    Were you beat up on a one and one situation or were they several ?
     
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    Noel857 I Am Duran

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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Apart from schoolyard scrapes as a kid, I’ve been beat up in sparring. I’ve also beaten up other guys upon occasion in sparing.

    Not necessarily fun but I’d take it over getting shot or stabbed, haha.
     
  13. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    I remember Ron Stander saying before his fight with Joe Frazier if it was held in a alley he would be the favorite
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Bruce Seldon
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    I call BS on Ron Stander