A Forgotten Generation - 90's Middleweights

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Howard Eastman is a great example here. His career began at the earliest days of the 90's and even today at the age of 37 he's going the distance with some of the best around like Duddy (A extremely close fight), Arthur Abraham, Bernard Hopkin's, and William Joppy, who he lost a MD too. Had a record of 40-1 at one time. Very durable. Eastman is a career middleweight and never ventured out of his chosen weight class.

    Glen Johnson spent a good amount of his career as a middleweight. In my opinion one of the very most underrated fighters of the past 25 years, and probably the most robbed one as well. Absolutely impossible to discourage. I've seen his chin described here with the line "You could drop a ****ing piano on the guy and he wouldn't notice". The beating he received against Bernard Hopkin's in maybe Hopkin's career best performance speaks volumes about his durability and guts. Great wins resume as well.

    Sergundo Mercado was a South American who once upon a time was a hot prospect. I'm not sure what went wrong, but his career went nowhere after his two fights with Bernard Hopkin's.

    Antwun Echol's is a all but forgotten power punching middleweight of the 90's who smashed more than a few prospects. The nickname Kid Dynamite was a well chosen one.

    Feel free to do your own short write ups. I continue to plan on doing so for a group of fighters who I feel were overshadowed in their decade by the welterweights and heavyweights, among other weight classes.

    I'm looking for details and what not here.
     
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  2. TIGEREDGE

    TIGEREDGE Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What about Keith Holmes, Ritchie Woodhall, Reggie Johnson, Robert mccracken

    Woodhall give Jones a great fight in the olympic and should of did more. same with mccracken. he pissed a lot of his potential up the wall
     
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  3. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Do little write ups on all of them if you want!

    I'd love to hear about every one of them.
     
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  4. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Duddy is one of the best around?:rofl :rofl

    If you wanna talk about underrated 90's middleweights, Reggie Johnson comes to mind.
     
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  5. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    One of the best. Not elite or anything.

    Iron chin, good workrate, solid and respectable power.
     
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  6. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Iron chin? Duddy got seriously hurt, and nearly beaten by a VERY shot Yory Boy Campas. It saved his life that the Pavlik fight didnt come off. Kelly might have literally killed him.

    Even a guy like Antwun Echols, when he was prime, would have killed Duddy.
     
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  7. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    So basically this is a thread lauding Hopkins's less than stellar MW opposition.
     
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  8. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    :yep :yep :yep :yep
     
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  9. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Nah, looking over Hopkin's career was a good and easy start for some candidates here though.

    Thanks for the asinine assumption though.
     
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  10. Loewe

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    John David Jackson but there was a thread about him not that long ago.
    What about Joppy? I´ve only seen his "fight" with Duran and the two massacres against Trinidad and Hopkins.
    Segundo Mercado shared a similar fate to Joe Lipsey. Mercado was ruined by Hopkins and Joe decided to never fight again after beeing beaten up by B-Hop. Both were seen as top prospects at the time.
    Glen Johnson is one of my favourite active fighters. A true road warrior. Not a great fighter but a very good one.
     
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  11. Mantequilla

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    Joppy was fairly mediocre.

    One of the worst middleweight champions you are likely to see.
     
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  12. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Asinine? :roll: Every single fighter you named was off of Hopkins's resume, and every single fighter you named was second-tier when Hopkins faced them, Johnson included. Johnson himself didn't become a top level fighter at LHW until later in his career, when he had aged, but also gained experience and a more consistently effective style. When he faced Hopkins he had pretty much nothing to offer.
     
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  13. TommyV

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    :lol:
     
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  14. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Sure is. And as I just TOLD you, I started eying HIS resume for middleweights that've gotten lost in time that were at the very least solid fighters.

    Anything else you want to baaaaw about with your amazing detective work?
     
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  15. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Perhaps you should've dedicated this thread to Hopkins's "underrated" opposition right off the bat then.:good

    Get a grip. I pointed out the obvious in the thread, you denied it, and then basically recanted it by admitting this thread was started based on research of Hopkins.
     
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