Carl Thompson

Carl was a warrior.

 

He got robbed....

Thompson was hard as they come ,a throw back fighter...

We need to start a 'UK most underrated fighter' thread because Carl Thompson will be right near the top imo

 

Ridiculously premature stoppage.






I like to think of Thompson as a sort of British answer to Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad) in terms of their common intangibles – tremendous heart and determination, the streak of vulnerability offset by great powers of recovery and ability to abide along with the uncanny knack of being able to find the right punch to turn a situation on its head just as all seemed lost.

The ultimate example of the art of playing possum will always be LaMotta-Dauthuille, but Thompson's TKO of Sebastiaan Rothmann (mentioned in post #6) is right up there in the conversation. Thompson had a knack for playing dead, as well as a keen sense of timing and selection in terms of knowing when to let those big power shots go, illustrating how fighters typically cast as lunch pail laborers who get by on rugged industry and force of will can be as crafty (craftier) as your blue-chips – even in moments of genuine peril, his strong powers of awareness under duress enabled him to play up those situations and very often turn them to his advantage.



He wasn't the biggest P4P banger out of Champ's Camp in my book, though. I'd say that was Bingo, who had Winky Wright scooting away on his bike most of the night.

 

https://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/29796/6928727/thompson-v-nelson

 

Wright's first title defence. Came to Bingham's hometown and won easily by 10 rounds on 2 cards and 11 rounds on the other.

 

Yep. Winky was at least a couple levels above Bingo, but he sure respected that punching power.