Not sure. Minter stepped in the ring with some better fighters overall. But he wasn’t really that big of a hitter and suffered quite a few stoppages himself. Tate also fought for a bit at light heavy.
Tate to win for me. As previously stated, Minter is not a big puncher. I saw Tate beat Sibson in Sibbo’s last fight. I reckon Tate wears Minter down, late stoppage or UD pts
Tate struggled for 8 rounds with an inactive old used up sibson... Minter had losses but a lot were on cuts in fights he was winning. Minter was cursed with bad skin. As fighters...minter is superior and wins over 15 quite clearly
Minter is not stopping Tate. Nunn did so, but with all due respect to Minter, Nunn was on a higher level that night than Minter was ever on. I do think Minter would edge out a decision though, but it'd be a competitive fight.
Sibson was hardly old at 29, he’d also had 6 fights in the 2 years prior to Tate, so not inactive. It’s probably fair to say he saw it as his last hurrah after a long career. From what l recall a young Tate won comfortably & pretty much every round.
Depends what era, location and how brave the ref was. I think other than in the UK in the late 70s, Tate is winning on a blood stoppage.
29 for a boxer in 2020 is generally no age....surgery...nutrition...physiotherapy...protective wear...are much improved..and amateur and pro careers have generally less fights...less tough schedules... 29 in 1988 for a face first pressure fighter with 63 fights behind him...many of them extremely hard fights....in the era of 15 rounds. who turned pro on his 18th birthday.....going into the ring with Tate he had had 1 fight in 17 months...with 5 knockout defeats in his career....he was an inactive and used up ..if not "old" fighter...going in... The fact he never fought again rather proves my point. Sibson himself says he had rested in 1987 to come back and give it one big last effort,but he felt he was going through the motions in the ring vs Tate...that he didnt have any desire left. I accept however "old" may be the wrong term...though in essence at 29 with his aforementioned history he was at the same time a "old fighter"....the fight was very competitive for 8 rounds imo..I felt it rather showed Tates limitations...though he was an undefeated Olympic Gold medalist I was very disapointed Sibson retired as more technical older fighters like McCallum and Kalambay were still fresh...and Id have loved to have seen him fight them and a fit healthy and motivated Sibbo fight Herol Graham and than the new Brits like Eubank and Benn... 5 years earlier Sibson would have comfortably beaten Tate imo.
