Burned Out from Too Many Amateur Fights?

Hearns and Leonard had the best amount of amatuers . Hearns 163 and Ray near that. Near 300 that is too much.. That is why Hearns had a long career, much longer than Donald Curry.

 

David Reid seemed a little off for his full pro career, and his issues with depression suggest he could have pugilistic dementia.

 

i agree with Hauser. 350 amateur fights is bound to show sooner in their pro careers. I feel ive said it 1000 times, GGG has slowed down, tired looking. Haters will say his comp has increased that's why, but its his movement that is catching my eye. His pressure style has slowed

 

Does anybody remember Kelcie Banks and his 500 plus amateur fights?

 

Taking punches is any form isn't going to do you any good, but I'm not sure the sheer amount of amateur fights in most these cases is the major factor.
Most these guys with 300 amateur fights, they were little kids beating up other kids and they were about 1000% better than those other kids.
Sparring and fighting at the professional level is more likely a bigger cause.

As for Terry Norris, he'd been brutally KO'd twice in his career by the time he faced Mullings. Who knows how many times he'd been brutally KO'd or buzzed in sparring.
I'd say the damage was mostly done in pro ranks against grown men. Just a guess.
I'd also say the damage is done over a relatively short period of time when these guys just start taking far more punishment in training and in fights due to losing a little fitness as they pass their peaks.
Against strong, grown professionals.

 

Johnny Bumpus had an ameteur record of 341-16. He was shot by age 27 without taking any sustained beatings in the pros. His legs were gone.

 

Good example. He seemed to be fading BEFORE he turned pro.

 

Only so many times you an get punched in the head without it showing

 

I remember him getting knocked out by the Dutch fighter Regilio Tuur in the 1988 Olympics.

 

Its a nonsense argument regarding GGG. The guy was never fast and was always hittable to begin with.

Loma's had over 400 fights and is pushing 30 , by this reasoning , he should be slowing down too , except he's only getting better and better.

Likewise with Rigo. He had MORE amateur fight and is older than GGG , i don't see nobody making silly excuses for him.

Fact is GGGs invincibility cloak was stripped off him by the first top level boxer he ever faced. He'd still lay waste to the Murrays , Mackilns and Geale's in one sided fashion right now.

If anything the boxer who turned pro at 19 will be more burned out by the time they are 35 than the guy who had easy amateur fights for most of his career.

People are just worried he's going to lose to Canelo so are getting their excuses in early. There's a more substantial argument that Canelo , who turned pro at 16 , has more millage on him than GGG.

 

I remember him, but I don't remember 500 amateur fights. Holy ****!!!

 

Actually, I'm amazed that most of these boxers are still alive and able to talk.

 

You are a pudding, every man ages differently but little facts like that won't sink in to that head of yours, GGG has slowed down a hell of a lot. If you don't believe a simple click or two on YouTube will confirm this.......

 

I thought it was 400, but Banks was the first fighter I thought of on this subject matter. He won the Olympic Trials, but just barely and looked nothing like what I once remembered him as. And was completely blown away in the Games themselves. He was totally shot by the time he turned pro. Also, I can think of James Shuler who had over 300 fights but died from a motorcycle accident so early in his career. Never saw how far he could have gone after the Hearns fight, but over 300 was a lot. Didn't Golovkin and Lomachenko have over 300?