[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjmThUcad8[/ame] Again, here's some nice footage of a very young Michael Nunn making his professional debut. Doesn't last very long. Enjoy. I have a policy against 16 year old turd's coming onto the thread and going off topic...so don't.
****. Anyway, I have never been high on Nunn dont know why. Never wuite liked his style and that. was he a good amatuer?
He won three Iowa Golden Gloves titles and posted an amateur record of 168-8. Lost to Virgil Hill in the Olympic trials I think.
I think in his early days he used his height and reach superbly well to avoid taking shots. Not only that but he was extremely mobile so it was hard to land cleanly on him. However, I think once he started stopping the likes of Tate, Roldan, and Kalambay, and with the pressure of the Goosen's trying to make him a superstar, he started trying to be more offensive minded and it resulted in some bad performances and his eventual loss to James Toney. Nunn's story is a tragic one.
He looked unbeatable in the Tate fight. Tate was beating him in the amateurs, but Nunn completely dominated him man for the title. Tate was an undefeated world champion reigning Olympic Gold medalist FFS and got whitewashed. THAT Nunn beats anyone.
There's a blast from the past. A real pity he blew his chance of a unification fight against Benn by losing to Little thru laziness. He also battered our own Crawford Ashley with bodyshots I recall. What happened to him, why is his story tragic?
He was an awesome fighter, he was defeating Toney hands down till he got caught, his in and out style in that fight was something else. For a well spoken guy, he did some really dumb ****, whch has led him to be in the current predcament he finds himself in. His performance of Tate and Raldon were awesome, some of the best boxing skills i've ever seen. I guess his first round Ko of Kalumbay was what led to his downfall, he was forced to become more attack minded to live up to that victory. Then just before his big unification match againt Benn he lost again journeyman Steve Little, and then the final nail in the coffin was a total non effort loss against an old Rocchigianni for the LHW title. He should have become the next in Line after Ali and Leonard, as Angelo Dundee's ATG's.
