One of my favourite fantasy fights & IMO the 2 best ever 140 lbers.... Chavez can handle Pryor`s pace & take his best shots while making him miss a lot & thru the mid-late rds his superior technique & accuracy wins him the fight on points. Pryor gets too wild to score enough on Chavez thru an entire fight & Chavez is one guy who will just keep coming, getting stronger as the fight goes on & landing the cleaner quality shots more & more as the fight goes on. Chavez W12/15 Pryor (Unanimous decision)
I reckon after watching this fight I would want to see them go at it again..and again...and maybe a few more times for good measure. One of if not the best excitement filled matchup you could have at the weight. I pick Pryor for the upset in the first bout...Chavez pulls one back in the rematch...The rubber sees Pryor stopped after giving Chavez plenty of career shortening punishment on the way down. I think Aaron has the right mix of speed, unconventionalness (?) and conditioning (and black bottles) to get Chavez nearly everytime in a first up bout. I feel he is a stylistic puzzle that Julio needs a full fight to feel out before he knows the best way to chop him down..but that he gets practically ruined once Chavez gets another shot at him.
To me, Pryor looked utterly impervious in both matches with Arguello, who blasted him to both the head and body to no apparent effect. The Hawk is there to be hit, but it didn't do Alexis any good. While Pryor gets the best of Chavez the first time out, what I wonder about is whether or not JCC and his camp opt to go for the decision in a rematch, with the focus and self restraint required to keep that aim in mind (a stoppage being a desirable side effect of this objective). Arguello had lost the defensive skill necessary to attempt this by the time Miami rolled around, but presumably, a peak Chavez would have the capacity to try. While I think the Pryor of Arguello I & II was essentially impervious and indefatigable, he was hardly invincible. (Locche would have completely driven him up a wall.) If Chavez can defend and counter effectively through the scheduled distance, he might be able to pull off the win in a return, but he'd need the experience of first spotting Pryor an opening defeat. (Even then, this is no sure thing, as Arguello discovered. Tunney only really mastered Greb the final time they squared off.)
This is a punchers' fight. Both men will get hit a lot, but Pryor's nonstop aggression is the tiebreaker in the form of a UD in the Hawk's favor.
I just cant pick a winner, theres too much we don't know about how they'd handle each others styles and abilities. Pryor has the more pressure/workrate/speed but Chavez has the better defense/timing/punch technique/body puncher. I see this a bit like the Taylor fight except Chavez is landing much more earlier and also Pryors punches doing more damage than Taylors. I forsee a late stoppage but as for which man wins out I can't be sure, 1 thing to be sure about it would be a WAR
atschatsch WTF you talking about:huh Arguello had Pryor on querr street going into the last round, Pryor ****ing was almost walking to Arguellos corner at the end of the round. "BLACK BOTTLE" thats why they had it handy. .........................Arguello was cheated in the 1st fight!!!!!!!!!!!:twisted::twisted:
Chavez wins this, easily. Even though I kind of like Pryor, Julio has the patience, the power, the chin and the defense to beat the Hawk.
Pryor has the aggressiveness and boxing ability to hang with Chavez to win a close UD.And if Julio whines about losing the fight, Aaron would get him too.