Favourite action fighter of the 80s

Chacon's wars with Rafael Limon and Boza-Edwards are must sees. Chacon was Gatti before Gatti - a guy who seemed to battle back from the brink of defeat to achieve impossible victories.

Mancini's brave challenge against Alexis Arguello, one round war against Arturo Frias and his tragic win over Kim Deuk Koo showed what a tough and charasmatic fighter he was.

 

Foreman's 80's stint wasn't exactly action packed tho.

 

He definitely wasn't a high tempo type at that point, very measured, slow paced, waited for his opponent to make a mistake, but as soon as they did it was over.

 

Mancini
Pryor
Saad Muhammad
Fletcher.

 

Foreman in the 80s stopped nearly every ****ing body that he fought only everett martin lasted the distance and he was dropped too. so it was a lot of action

 

Frank the animal Fletcher....he was a borderline contender but hie went to war with everyone he got in the ring with no matter how over his head he got

 

So many. If I had to pick just 1 I'd go with Saad

 

Julian Jackson
John Mugabi
Jeff Fenech
Julio Cesar Chavez
Juan Domingo Roldan
Jorge Paez

 

Boza Edwards
Bobby Chacon
Tommy Cordova had some exciting fights .
Frank Fletcher
Aaron Pryor
Matthew Saad
Marvin Johnson
Bazooka Limon
Thomas Hearns
Robin Blake
Harry Arryo
Doug Dewitt
Davey Moore
God this list could go on and on!

 

Oh please. George was fighting pretty much nobodies. The fights were one sided and certainly weren't going to win any awards for sustained action. For a long time his comeback was considered a joke until he stepped up and took on some better opposition.

I'm not criticising him for taking his comeback extremely slow as he weighed a ton and had a long long way to come back from. There was next to excitement in the media for him in the 80's and not much in the ring either.

 

Their were many in the 80's . Bobby Chacon always seemed to be in tough fights. Boza Edwards was another. Of course Aaron Pryor. James "Hard Rock"Green,,, Hell all the Philadelphia fighters of that era were action fighters it seemed. Frank Fletcher, Jeff Chandler, Curtis Parker, Mattthew Muhammad, something was in the water in Philly lol. Marvin Johnson always was in wars it seemed. Boy , I miss the 70's 80's thru the mid 90's the last great eras in boxing. And I'm not even mentioning the A.T.G'S of those eras and the excitement they brought.

 

Hector Macho Camacho. In the 80's he was truly the Macho man

 

Between '81 and '83, the jnr lightweight divison alone seemed to produce incredible action fights with Chacon, Limon, Boza and the likes of Rolando Navarette taking part in war after war against each other. The light heavyweights around a similar time period with Saad Muhammad, Yaqui Lopez and Dwight Qawi also brought incredible action.

 

Nobodies? Foreman did exactly the same with qawi and bert cooper than he did with "the nobodies" that he fought in the 80s.
Foreman was 40 and he was fighting a lot of guys that fought tyson or another young too guys at the time too.. Steve zouski,david jaco,mark young,ken lakusta or mike jameson.
The first 19-0 of tyson was a bunch of tomato cans