How good was jonny Nelson?

He was top 5 in the world at cruiserweight in an era with the likes of Jirov and Gomez. He was a solid champion but boring as hell and so unwilling to engage. His fight with sellers was fun If I remember right.

 

He had less than a 1,000 fights and I just named three fights that were very good performances, and in no way truly horrific to watch...

 

Not a very good guy to watch the Thomson stoppage was also very premature

 

He works with sky yet sky wouldn't show some of his title fights because he was boring

 

He didn't really call out Tyson, did he?

 

His book is a decent read. He's filled with self doubt, even now, so I guess he did well to turn his career around and have a decent run of fights.

He's grown on me as a pundit recently.

 

He was very good at curing my insomnia!

 

brilliant pundit,very good boxer in patches..........more than most of us can hope for

 

Nelson is very underrated, He was better than Glen McCory, for sure. I feel He was put in over His Head to early.

 

I give you an A* for mathmatics.

The more than general point stands!

 

Yes his book was a very decent read very honest in his shortcomings mainly the mental doubt in his own ability & for those interested in those days good insights into the Ingle camp & fighters.

 

I think you mean lazy cliché point...

 

Disagree with this. It was clearly a few levels better. He beat Carl Thompson who went on to beat David Haye.

 

after watching Nelson v De Leon live on TV. I never wanted to watch Nelson fight again.

Alot of deserving fighters never get a world title shot, and you get Nelson, who was scared even throwing a jab in that fight. Disgrace.

 

He was perversely nicknamed "The Entertainer".
His fights were stinkers.