Corrie Sanders vs Nate Tubbs

Hardly a fluke. Sanders got KTFO because he had a weak chin...and wasn't very good back then. He also got embarrassingly dropped by cruiserweight Arthur Weathers on Lewis' undercard in '97 which ended any hope of a shot at Lewis.

Brian Nielsen then blew his own chance after teeing off on that Mexican roadsweeper - yet unable to drop him - on another Lewis undercard.

 

That flash knockdown was embarrassing, but then what happened to Weathers one minute later. Oh yeah... KTFO!!!
Tubbs was the only KO against a lot of hard hitters, hardly a weak chin. Move along.
Lewis didn't want any of the Sniper. To dangerous and no reward for him.

 

Tubbs simply caught him with a cracking shot early on, it's probably the most flush punch Sander's has ever taken and the results speaks for itself. While Rahman clearly hits harder than Tubbs, he never landed with a shot as cleanly as Tubbs did, had he done Sander's would have likely stayed down for the full 10 as well.

Sander's chin wasn't as bad as the Tubbs KO suggested but it clearly wasn't great either. As mentioned, Weathers a shot cruiserweight had him down, a shaky Rahman on the ropes put him down with an innocuous looking counter and he was stopped in everyone of his losses.

 

thing is, if you wrote this a million times, it still wouldn't revise the history that happened, in that sanders was never good enough for a title shot UNTIL wlad mysteriously picked the shot2shyte retired version of him to face.

course if wlad hadn't pickd him and instead picked some other half baked national level guy, you wouldn't be writing about sanders being an atg killer, you would instead be writing about that other middler who easily killed wlad.

 

sanders was laying on the ropes a la rope a dope and nate tubbs threw a shot straight down the pipe that put sanders away = if they ever woulda had a rematch sanders woulda evened the score with tysons sparring partner

 

Yeah, we know that for a fact! Yeah! :dead

 

Sanders was a glass cannon who didnt live the cleanest of life styles outside of boxing and he got by for the most part on talent alone.... but yeah, he beats Tubbs more often than not.

 

In response to your second paragraph: if you wrote this a million times, it still wouldn't revise the history that happened. Lol.
Way to go dude!

 

Lewis wasn't slow. He obviously wasn't as fast later on as he was in 1992, when he took out Ruddock, but he still had above-average speed for a heavyweight.

Yeah, boxing is just unpredictable like that and things happen. Knockouts aren't just the product of raw power, there's timing, placement, speed, angles, if the guy taking the punch sees it coming.

 

on planet K, yeh.

but in the rest of the universe Tubbs was the better man, destroying prime corrie easily. best ever corrie wasn't all that in the lewis era clearly.

this being the corrie that when finally shot2shyte and retired, easily wiped out prime wlad and almost unified in the K bro era.

don't moan on it, wlad has only himself to blame for picking a retired nobody for a defence of the hw title, becos getting wpied out by the guy who got wiped out by nobodies in his prime, doesn't sell you well.

 

Sanders only had two losses when he fought Wlad. Tubbs lucky shot and Rachman which Sanders almost ko'd in a beast of a fight.
Who were all these nobody losses to?
Lewis didn't want that.

 

so..... sanders didn't lose in his losses?

sounds like the way wlad didn't really lose in his losses.

oh please.....

 

Sanders's chin wasn't as bad as the Tubbs fight would have you to believe nor as sturdy as the Vitali fight would.

It was an okay chin.

 

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Corrie's career always reminded me a lot of Ken Norton's. Made their bones by beating one ATG (Ali, Wlad) and having a competitive fight against another (Holmes Vitali). Norton faced a lot more additional top contenders than Sanders, and beat some, unlike Sanders, but in general both did fairly poor against the rest of the top fighters they faced. And both lost in a shock ko to an inferior fighter early in their career, in Tubbs and Garcia.