Aaron Pryor Chin - Pick A 140 LB Fighter...

If Zoo couldn't take Vince Phillips and Roger Mayweather out he definitely couldn't take Pryor out. And the people who say Arguello didn't have power at 140 need to stop lying. He took out a guy who had never been knocked out in Kevin Rooney and KO'ed Billy Costello after he fought Pryor. He brought the power to 140.

 

Maybe Bruce Curry, but that is a longshot.

 

Curry wouldn't know what hit him lol

Pryor would smash him, and i'm no Pryor lover.

 

No votes for Sugar Ray Robinson and Napoles? Duran is another obvious choice

 

Kosta's right hand?

 

Pacquiao would have stopped him like he did everyone recently.

 

i think a young, in his prime kid pambele kos pryor. Cervantes was a terrific and dangerous fighter in his prime and i think he takes pryor out.:****off

 

I respectfully disagree on that one. Lesser men than Pryor went the distance with him and it's going to take one helluva strong fighter to stop him. I really don't think Cervantes has the punch, good as he was at one time.

 

Maybe De La Hoya could have cracked Pryor chin at 140, but Oscar only has like 3 or 4 fights at that weight so it is hard to gauge.

 

Did Johnson really rock him silly tho, or did he catch him off balance as was common with Pryor. I'll have to watch it again, but i don't remember Pryor being as seriously hurt as that.

Even drug rooted Pryor took the bombs of Bobby Joe Young, who was a murderous puncher even if he didn't live up to his potential.

 

So much wrong with this post. Bobby Joe Young was a low level fighter with average power coming off a loss and was supposed to be an easy fight for Pryor.

 

Well sometimes we have to do more than just scratch the surface. Do you actually know the era? Some points......

1. Bobby Joe Young at one time (albeit prematurely in hindsight) won the award of hardest punching 147 in the world.

2. At one time Bobby was bracketed right there with Curry and McCrory as the three best up and comers at 147. As i correctly stated, he didn't live up to his potential.

3. Young's loss was a decision and nobody said he was a great fighter, it's his punching power that is my point and Pryor took plenty of them.

4. This fight is against a bigger man, not just a 140, and as i point out a big puncher.

5. Did you actually see the fight, the punches, and how it actually finished?

6. Pryor had not fought for 2 1/2 years and looked ragged when he last did. We know he doing a shitload of drugs and we know very well that it caught up with him bigtime.

The bottom line is this.

With all factors taken into account i believe the Young fight gives Pryor's chin more credibility than other.

 

Bobby Joe Young's only KO win in his last 10 fights is against Pryor. Big puncher? I've seen Young only in his loss to Brown and the strange fight with Pryor. How do you explain the lack of KO wins on his record against low level opposition if he was a big puncher?

 

I don't even see the Pryor-Bobby Jhnson fight as being a knock on Pryor's chin. That was a coked up past his best inactive Pryor. Pryor was knocked off balance a couple of times, but I never really saw him badly hurt in his prime. Dude stood up to some monster punches from DuJuan Johnson as that fight went on.

 

Duran would win by late KO or decision, like everyone says, through accumulation of punches that would wear an opponent out.

Napoles also had the skill and power to do so, as long as Pryor didn't inflict that tide-turning cut.

Ike Williams I feel could score a late KO. Pryor's style plays into his hands IMO.

Pryor-Armstrong would be a tossup.