2 World Class Fighters That Met Early in Their Careers

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  1. gtijeffery

    gtijeffery New Member Full Member

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    Hi guys, I was just trying to think of some examples of this myself the other day. Do you know of any fighters who met early in their careers (pre-contender stages) and then went on to both have world class (or even respectable) careers? I'm sure it would have been more common pre-modern era.......
     
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  2. Ray Robinson

    Ray Robinson Member Full Member

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    This might be somewhat a bad example: Nelson-Sanchez. But at that point Sanchez was already a world class fighter....and Azumah...
     
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    acb De Camaguey... Gavilan Full Member

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    Moreso in the amatuer ranks. One example would be Forest and Mosely.

    There are many others, too.
     
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  4. DobyZhee

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    Jones-Hopkins..
     
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  5. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    In a world title fight?
     
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  6. TRUEBELIEVER 66

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    Hearns-leonard...
     
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  7. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    In the amatuers:

    Pep and Robinson
    Hearns and Pryor (on YouTube I think)
     
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  8. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Still not 'early' IMHO...
     
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  9. brooklyn1550

    brooklyn1550 Roberto Duran Full Member

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    Israel Vazquez and Oscar Larios met pretty early in their respective careers.
     
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  10. gtijeffery

    gtijeffery New Member Full Member

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    Or a unification fight between two fighters with 30 fights.......
     
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  11. RafaelGonzal

    RafaelGonzal Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Esteban Dejesus vs Roberto Duran
     
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  12. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    :patsch
     
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  13. MSTR

    MSTR More Speed Than Roy!!!!! Full Member

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    Tszyu and Forrest in the amatuers. Then two guys who aren't brilliant fighters, but still good, Mundine and Sam Soliman met quite early on in their careers. A lot of times its rare, because of the way fighters are managed in modern boxing.
     
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  14. Wige247

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    tyson-lewis? I'm jost keeding
     
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  15. MSTR

    MSTR More Speed Than Roy!!!!! Full Member

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    Not exactly the best example you could come up with. In fact, possibly one of the worst.
     
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