Fighters who are a"poor man's version" of other fighters

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  1. PernellSweetPea

    PernellSweetPea Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Not at all. Hearns and Arguello are rated fairly close in most great fighter lists. Both lost their biggest fights. It isn't fair that Alexis is thought of so much with Pryor, but he was going for title number 4 and he lost in a great fight. But he lost badly.
     
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  2. PernellSweetPea

    PernellSweetPea Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A lot of guys were poor man Hearns because the long stretched out guys usually could not take a punch long enough to be great fighters and Hearns as much as people say did not take a good punch, took a good enough punch to last in great fights and demolish good fighters with his reach which was better than Rogers or Breland, who was compared to Hearns also. Hearns had a better resume than those other stretched out guys. Foster was another man who came before Hearns with the stretched out leverage to have one punch power, but if guys could reach his chin (more at heavyweight) he crashed.
     
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  3. J Jones

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    Katsidis was another lesser version of Fenech.
     
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  4. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Blasphemy!
     
  5. richdanahuff

    richdanahuff Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think Taylor had started to suffer some brain damage when he was starting to struggle
     
  6. Contro

    Contro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No. Sounds like something my grandpa would have said
     
  7. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    I'll go with Smoke Gainer on that one.
     
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  8. J Jones

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    Eddie Chambers poor man’s Chris Byrd
    Charlo Bros poor man’s Terry Norris
    Brandon Rios poor man’s Ricardo Mayorga
     
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  9. Flo_Raiden

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    Jhonny Gonzalez was like Finito Lopez minus the chin, stamina, and durability.

    Juan Francisco Estrada is a lot like a JMM-lite.

    Brian Viloria was also Pacquiao-lite.
     
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  10. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    As they should be great lanky guys the both of them. Both lost great fights to highly durable shorter men. Hearns just seemed far more emotional and expressive than Alexis was. This is no critique of there skills or technique, just personalities.
     
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  11. Xplosive

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    Ivan Robinson was an extremely poor, destitute, living on the street begging for crumbs man's version of Meldrick Taylor.
     
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  12. Jamzy ⭐

    Jamzy ⭐ Active Member Full Member

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    You don't know sh*t about boxing, I'll let you know I've knocked thousands of men (and women #equality) unconscious. I have sparred multiple WBA regular champions and broke them down in camp, I'm not one to brag but I even beat on an elderly Frank Bruno. If you do not send me a sincere apology from your electronic device right now I will be forced to fly over to your location and publicly humiliate you.
     
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  13. EddehBabbeh

    EddehBabbeh New Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali was a poor mans Tony Bellew
     
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  14. Xplosive

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    Carlos "Bolillo" Gonzalez was a poor man's Pipino Cuevas.
     
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  15. ChrisJS

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    I love watching Estrada. I think he’s brilliant. I’d agree there’s a lot of similarities with Marquez, who Estrada refers to as his “idol”.
     
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