Fights that you believe should never have been sanctioned due to mismatch and old age

Abraham was still operating at a level above domestic level, so I don't see a problem with that.

Tony and Jones are good shouts though.

How about Joppy-Duran?

 

Lmao

 

Froch in his 20's went life n death with Ozzie level Dale Westerman. If it had been Groves in there he would have lost.
Some guys get better with age.

Froch done better against Groves when he was older. That blows away your original response that Froch took a battering because he was the same age as Arthur when he fought Eubank.

Povektin still looks a force at 37. At 37 Ali was finished and in retirement.

You haven't a clue what you are talking about , going around claiming Ali was knocked out by body shots and revealing you never heard of Michael Grant before - ydksab

 

Danny Williams shouldn't beat fighting anymore.

 

when did i say wlad at 40 was in his prime? re read the thread you idiot

 

Translation = YOU WIN.

Yeah , no chit Sherlock.

 

oh right sorry

 

Oooh! Off topic but yesterday i heard a really good comeback for "no chit Sherlock": "**** you Watson"
(that tickled me)

 

Paranoid Pedley pmsl

 

Well you never know what's going to happen in a fight until it happened. You can look back and say something shouldn't have happened after it happened but it's impossible to predict the future.

You could have just as well made the argument that Sugar Ray Leonard shouldn't have been allowed to come back and fight Marvin Hagler due to having a detached retina and possibly suffering permanent damage. But he ended up going out there and pulling off one of the biggest upsets of all time. Boxers assume the risks they take when they enter into a contract to fight.

Mosley had gone the distance with Floyd, Mora, and Pacquiao back-to-back-to-back, why all of a sudden did you have a problem with Mosley fighting Canelo after that? Look I'm not exactly thrilled with Mosley carrying on, but it's his decision. Are you trying to say that you thought Canelo did more damage to Mosley than Floyd or Pacquiao did to him? Were you happy with Mosley getting in there with Pacquiao the year before?

In Roy Jones vs Enzo, the shot that put Roy out was a right hook that landed behind Roy Jones ear. Was Roy rendered unconscious? He was stunned and within seconds of going down he was moving his legs, turning and coming to. His head didn’t exactly bounce off the canvas, he fell half onto his side and half onto his face. Someone bounces their head off the campus when they are falling on their back with heavy force. Vs Enzo, Roy didn’t hit the canvas particularly hard, he just sort of hunched over and fell down lightly. A punch that lands behind the ear like that can stun you momentarily or make you lose equilibrium.

I don’t know why you feel the need to be so over dramatic about this knockout, saying Roy was “rendered unconscious” and “his head bounced off the canvas”. Neither of those things happened, he may have been out momentarily, but he wasn’t completely out of it like you were suggesting.

If you go back and watch the first 3 rounds of RJJ vs Enzo, Roy was impressive, he was outboxing Enzo and doing it in an entertaining way. He was winning and he appeared to be on his way, but something changed in the corner after round 3 and Roy became very uncomfortable in the 4th round. I wasn’t exactly impressed with Enzo knocking out Roy because it seemed to have more to do with Roy being aggravated with something his cornerman had done before the 4th round. He came out in Round 4 with a totally different demeanor and it wasn’t due to any punishment he had taken in the first 3 rounds as he hadn’t taken any.

Obviously every fighter should be judged on a case-by-case basis. We just seen Bernard Hopkins fight into his 50s and had a lot of success, but then he was knocked out of the ring and on to his head by a construction worker.

Roy Jones fought Bernard Hopkins in 2010 and it was a highly competitive affair, so don’t give me this BS that it’s OK for Bernard Hopkins to fight into his 50s and get dropped on his head but it’s not OK to let Roy Jones fight. You don’t know what’s going to happen until it happens. For all we know Roy Jones could be on the verge of winning a World Title and you’re personal issues with you not thinking he should fight again could stop that from happening. Due to the Enzo loss? I sort of agree that a person shouldn’t be in the ring if he’s a punching bag. But all you gotta do is take one look at Roy vs Enzo in the first 3 rounds and it was clear that Roy Jones was impressive to watch, and we still saw flashes of his greatness.

 

kahn vs Barrera ,, he doesnt deserve that name on his resume

i remember michael gomez fighting kahn as well when he was past it but made a good account of himself but it was apparent even at the carl johanson fight he was finished
the burns fight with him was a disgrace