Boxers Who Lost To A Fighter They Would Beat 9 Times Out Of 10

I think Duran would have beaten Camacho 9/10 because any versin of Camacho higher than 140 lbs. was medicore.

Even at lightweight, Duran would most likely beat Camacho.

 

Tyson vs Danny Williams
Tyson vs McBride

 

Klitschko vs Fury

 

Danny Jacobs to Dmitry Pirog
Marcos Maidana to Devon Alexander
Amir Khan to Breidis Prescott

 

I think Howard had plenty of heart, but may have not been adequately prepared for Watt that day.

 

What makes you so sure of that one?

 

How do you figure? You mean if Fury were fighting Wlad from 5 years ago?

 

Nonsense Alexander completely shut him out.

 

Holmes vs Tyson.

 

John Tate vs Mike Weaver
Jimmy Paul vs Darryl Tyson
Michael Dokes vs Gerrie Coetzee
Alex Ramos vs Ted Sanders
Dwight Davidson vs Robbie Epps
Jackie Beard vs Jose Caba.

 

There was a few things going on in this one.

It was about Davis' 14th fight, Watt had about 8 (scheduled) 15 round fights behind him.

Davis was ridiculously overconfident, Watt was down to earth, calm and determined. Davis and America thought he only had to show up to win. Davis told the press he could beat Watt with his arms and legs chopped off and a cigarette in his mouth.

Having won boxer of the games (over an incredible cast) and was part of an insanely strong team that dominated and were all expected to succeed in the pro's, none more so than Davis.

Which leads to - Davis was overrated and Watt underrated. Davis (one of my favorite fighters) was headed toward being a long term disappointment in the pro's and may have fared worst of all his Olympic Team without looking it up. Watt was a very good honest fighter and showed that in his two fights post Davis. Watt had experience and a gameplan and never wavered.


Howard's game just didn't transition as well to the pro game as many predicted. It was ironic that by the time he finally put it together somewhat better he was beaten in a close one by Rosario, getting dropped right at the finish.

So Davis overrated, overconfident and inexperienced at the time, Watt underrated and experienced. Watt had the hometown crowd advantage too, Davis took quite a few rounds to find his stride and by that time Watt was cruising. Watt was too good at that time.

 

I think you might be taking on board a tad too much of the hype of the times. Beard invariably underperformed when the spotlight was on him. Tate looked very very good - until Weaver came from behind and basically ruined him. Weaver sleptwalked for 11 rounds, did a bit in round 12, sleptwalked 13 then finally got busier. He often had noticable output problems. He was probably at his best immediately after this fight. I reckon he would have axed Tate earlier in a rematch.

If Weaver didn't get him late it would have been an interesting match with Holmes tho. Tate had the size, speed and jab to give him a very good fight. Stamina may have been the issue.

 

Nichols vs Wilder

 

Manny Pacquiao L12 Floyd Mayweather
Oscar DeLaHoya L12 Floyd Mayweather
Shane Mosley L12 Floyd Mayweather

Just to get things stirred up!

Larry Holmes L15 Michael Spinks x2

Ok, plenty of obvious choices when a past prime all-time great fighter gets beat by a not so great fighter. Scott Walker W10 Arguello or Pat Lawlor W10 Benitez and KO6 Duran for example. What else can we dig up?

How about-

Holyfield L12 Moorer

This one will anger some but here goes-

Ray Leonard L15 Roberto Duran
Duran fought a great fight, Leonard learned a lot and improved after this fight. The fight was also rather close and Leonard really could have done better... Duran did as well as he could have to be honest and his performance ranks up there with Joe Frazier's win over Ali. That's saying a lot.

 

I don't think he would beat any prime version of Klitschko, no. People act as if Fury put on some masterclass performance, in reality he won a tedious, fairly close sparring session against a listless Wlad. Fury isn’t very good, he boxed the fight of his life and Wlad put on the worst performance of his career. Fury couldn’t possibly do better and Wlad couldn’t do any worse in another go around. I see of a bloated, out of shape Fury getting destroyed by a refocused Wlad in the rematch.