10 Greatest African-born Fighters

Gotcha. Thanks Mantequilla. Going to need to score that entire fight sometime.

 

I really like Ferreri from what i've seen of him.

Very nice tidy technician.I thought he gave Zarate an excellent fight.I wonder if that fight took a lot out of him.

 

Ferreri was a good fighter, no question about it. He had good technical skills as you say and he backed it up with a solid chin and great stamina. His problem was that he didn't really have much pop in his punches and so he couldn't really earn his best opponents' respect. Weird for a tall lanky fighter not to have much pop. Also weird that he was such a tecnhically sound fighter for a tall laky bloke as well...

Ferreri had a slow steady decline from the Zarate fight, but along the way he was still a competent fighter for many, many years and had a few decent wins along the way. A good 18 years after he started boxing he was still contesting the Commonwealth bantam title, which is pretty amazing. That he could still make weight for it is amazing alone.

I'd like to try and get his fight with the matchstick man if it's available. Could you imagine two anorexic looking kids going at it!

 

Ferrari was probably one of our best fighters never to win a world title. To bad he ran into a young, emerging Zarate or he may have bagged one.

 

anyone remember baby jake matlala?
looking back he has a pretty good call for a top 10er.

also he unified a country that was still trying to find a self identity. the barry mcguigan of RSA. very a typical of hall of famers.

 

yeah thats why i compared him to barry mcguigan becuase of how his ring achievments (which are better than what it seems) are not the reason he got his recogntition but for uniting a country...dunno a bit pretencious but still.

yeah scary type of guy he broke you down so heavily. im surprised his ko percentage is so low. it was very hard to get otu the way of him even for being the smallest world champion ever

 

Old Baby Jake

Little buzzsaw he was, remember he stopped a pretty good flyweight of ours called Todd Makelin.

 

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Yeah Coulda. I recently watched a 23 min highlight of Paul's fight with Johnny and he was definitely more solid than Johnny.

Excellent boxing match that was by the way. Johnny outwilled Ferreri and took the win, but Paul showed some excellent skills along the way coming on strong in the middle rounds and then fighting furiously in the last when he had given up a lead in the championship rounds.

 

Have only seen very short sections of Zarate vs Ferreri and Owen vs Ferreri.

Where did you get the 23 minute clip from? Is it downloadable?

 

Check your private messages mate :good

 

No. In fact, Malinga was actually lucky to lose only by an SD.

 

Exactly the way I see it.

They're the definite #1 and 2 IMO, which one goes where is just a matter of opinion.

As for the rest, it's pretty much splitting hairs.

The only one I would disagree with is Konadu being on there, or at least so high. He should be down closer to the bottom, alongside Kalule IMO. I'd put Mitchell and Toweel higher on that list.

 

Hogan 'kid' Bassey ....Ghana
Battling Siki... .a great story.
Idi Amin.... a H/W amatuer champ of Uganda.... former Dictator/Presi.