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  1. Brixton Bomber

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    LHW's and/or CW's tooling top tier HW's?

    I'd imagine Holyfield was involved in a few on his ascent as a CW...
     
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    Haye was said to be something of a wrecking ball in sparring.
     
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    Really? Against the likes of who?
     
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    A green Wilder, and Chris Areola are rumored to have got some rough treatment.
     
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    I don't find it very commendable myself.
     
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  6. reznick

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    Murat Gassiev regularly spars with some of the best HWs and SHWs in the world.

    He sparred with Wladmir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder.

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  7. The Funny Man 7

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    Word on the street was that James Toney routinely worked over heavyweights while as an aspiring middleweight, which is why he confidently predicted he would be a heavyweight champion one day, years and years before that was remotely feasible to us. Those stories never had any prominent names that I was aware of, probably just average heavyweight in and around the Detroit circuit.
     
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  8. LD Boxer-Puncher

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    Some have probably heard this one before but I've read one claiming that Lawrence Okolie dropped Anthony Joshua in sparring last year.
     
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    Freddie Roach says that Roger Mayweather used to beat the crap out of Greg Haughen in sparring.
     
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  10. Sting like a bean

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    Greg Haughen was a lightweight. Or is there another Greg Haughen?
     
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    Roger Mayweather was a lightweight too.
    They both used to spar and Roach says Mayweather used to put it to him.
     
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    I always ALWAYS wanted to see Haye fight Arreola.

    That would have been a good scalp for David, and made his HL Reel look even better!
     
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    Harry Greb owned Jack Dempsey in sparring.

    Tommy Hearns was a complete ***** after hitting an old Ali and hurting him with his notorious right hand, completely out of order.
     
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  14. Bokaj

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    This is a good story by Dana White about an old Roger Mayweather going to town on a young HW:

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  15. Stevie G

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    This was on the lead up to their respective fights with Trevor Berbick and Ernie Singletary I take it ? They were on the same bill.
     
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