Felix Savon v Lennox Lewis

I agree..there is big different about you're 18 or 27 years old..Cuban boxers are mostly older ages and more mature fighters.

 

Savon was knocking his name(would be names anyway)opponents out for the most part, so I don't think the differences really apply in those cases. Also, your point only serves to strengthen my own that Savon would not be as successful in the pros.

 

Lewis lost Gonzales in amateur fight...Rahman and McCall in pro...????

 

Chagaev not own him towards the end of his amateur career?

 

The point I am making is that he was a fully mature grown man, as good as he would ever become. The guys he was fighting were young and pre-prime. They were nowhere near as good as they would later become, nor as physically mature. How obvious can I make it?

And your analogy in your second paragraph is ridiculous and has no bearing on the subject at hand. I just don't think you know what you're talking about. If a man is in his physical prime, and much bigger, stronger, and more experienced than you, than it's likely that you(having not come close to reaching the peak of your skills or physical maturity) are going to be a big disadvantage.

 

No it doesn't. It's saying you can't draw ANY conclusions about a potential pro career from a previous amateur career because both sports have diffferent requirements to be successful. A successful amateur can be a successful pro if he can change his style to suit pro boxing. If he can't he will be a bust. On the other hand there are guys who have styles that don't work in amateur boxing but are made for pro boxing.

 

:good Lewis would have ended the Cuban's life.

 

They were pre pro prime that's the point. That doen't mean anything, if you are ever to be successful as an amateur you show it at a young age. Your just looking for excuses to put Savon's extraordinary achievements down.

 

He was knocking out pre-prime, physically immature teens as a full grown, experienced man, I don't consider that extraordinary. And your attempts to justify it by citing the differences between pro and amateur do nothing. He was far more experienced is my point, regardless of pro or amateur, that majorly factors into it. I don't think you'll honestly disagree.

 

His golds are obvioulsy legit and he was a very talanted boxer but i am not sure in the least if he could have slugged it out with a great big man like lewis for 12 rounds without hitting the deck.