A perfect fight with Nigel Benn

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    I`ve pasted this as a response to someone who posted Benn`s best KO`s under a thread I started showing why Charlo doesn`t throw his hook properly, so whoever that was, you were right, Fouts mentioned Charlo in the coments under this vid as a poor man`s Benn and that he tries to copy Benn but doesn`t unddrstand the mechanics of Benn`s superior punching, where would Charlo have rated among the top 10 fighters at 160 in Benn`s day?
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  2. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    I will avoid this subject, do not want to get banned again, I like to participate.
     
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  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Why did you get banned?
     
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  4. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Charlo wouldn't have been in the top 25 back then.
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    What?! Who the hell were those 24 middleweights then?
     
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  6. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    What the ****!!

    Umm

    Hagler
    Leonard
    Hearns
    Duran
    Barkley
    L. Holmes
    Lee
    Kalambay
    Graham
    F. Tate
    McCallum
    Nunn
    Olajide
    Watson
    Benn
    Eubank
    R. Johnson
    J. Jackson
    Collins
    Toney
    McClellan
    Parks
    Jones Jr
    Hopkins
    Starling
    Curry
    Tinley
    Kinchen
    DeWitt
    Sims
    Schuler
    Sosa
    Castro
    J. D Jackson
    Pyatt
    T. Tate
    S. Williams
    T. Williams
    Roldan
    Hamsho
    Sibson
    R. Douglas
    Milton
    Thornton
    Littles
    Del'Aquilla
     
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  7. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's about 75 all top-notch.

    Today there are, umm, none. Youngsters don't box anymore. The gyms are few and far between and empty. On the back of Ali there was a boxing gym on every street corner of inner cities and all at full capacity. HBO, Showtime, Sky, and PPV killed the sport.
     
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  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Littles wsn`t a middle when Benn was at that weight. Sibson wan`t fighting during Benn`s era. Hamsho was finished by Benn`s era. Kintchen was a super-middle. Curry only had one fight at middle. Starling only had one fight at middle he`d be too small to beat Charlo. Hopkins wsn`t that good during Benn`s prime (but still might have beaten Charlo). McClellan wasn`t an established middle when Benn fought at that weight. Leonard didn`t fight at middle during Benn`s era, Benn turned pro in `87, Leonard retired after the Hagler fight coming back at 168-175 to fight Lalonde in `88, he never fought at middle again though there was talk of his figting Benn after Nigel destroyed Barkley and Hagler retired in `87.
     
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  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    You make some good points here but not all of that 75 were top notch at all.
     
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  10. Mr Butt

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    Benn turned pro in 87 and by the end of the year was 12-0 so would of been talked about already as British middleweight tittle possible challenger. sibo was British and commonwealth middleweight champion in September of the 87 beating Sheffield's Brian Anderson at the Albert hall for those titles. I'm pretty certain there was press talk about young vs old maybe at some point in 88 but sibo would lose to frank Tate in a world title fight in his next fight which was in 88 . I'm pretty certain benn would go to 14 or 15 and 0 on the undercard
     
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    Benn was talking about destroying Tommy Hearns at the start of 88
     
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  12. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/nigel-benn-v-sibson-in-1987-who-would-have-won.653218/
     
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  13. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    My mistake I forgot about the Barkley fight with Hearns.
     
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  14. Bulldog24

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    Ronnie Davies was telling Eubank Sr in 88 that he was better than Sugar Ray Robinson, having seen Robinson up close in London
     
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  15. Mr Butt

    Mr Butt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah he was
     
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