Hasim Rahman Appreciation Thread

I know officially he was, but I thought Rahman was ahead. He was out-landing him by a pretty large margin. Rahman ****ed himself in both fights. Was comfortably ahead in the first fight and HAD HE LISTENED to his corner in the rematch and not went for the KO, he would have won a decision. He was loading up for the KO often.

Watch the first fight on YouTube. It was a very solid scrap.

 

Good point. Rahman's chin was pure china. People talk about Wlad Klit's chin, but Rahman's was MUCH worse.

 

The China Chin critic himself. Knew you'd smell this thread like a shark smells blood in the water.

 

Rahman had a classic glass jaw, and he deserves to be recognized for this. His fragile mandible gave us some great highlight reel KOs!

 

Rahman was pretty stupid throughout his career. Completely mismanaged, I understand he's pretty much broke today.

 

I never scored it, I remember Maskaev coming on in the rematch as Rahman was slowing down.

Rahman had so much success with the jab, but eventually Maskaev got to him.

 

I enjoyed Rahman's two losses to Oleg Maskaev and his loss to Wladimir Klitschko.

Povetkin-Rahman reminded me of Haye-Harrison. Hasim looked like a frightened old woman in that one.

 

He got a raw deal against Tua both times.

He was fat though in the rematch, maybe if he had prepared better, it wouldn't have been close enough for Tua to get a generous draw.

Rahman's level of opposition in his career was impressive, including wins over a future title-holder in Sanders and an ATG in Lewis. And he should have a win over David Tua. I give him props for that, it is pretty impressive among his era of HWs

Corrie Sanders
Lennox Lewis (2x)
David Tua (2x)
James Toney (2x)
Evander Holyfield
John Ruiz
Monte Barrett
Wladimir Klitschko
Alexander Povetkin

 

He definitely came on near the end, but Rahman was just being Rahman. Used the jab often but could have used it a lot more and set up his power punches better, but didn't. He threw bombs. I never understood how Oleg could take his punches but got KTFO from other fighters. Rahman had power. I will never get it.

 

Rahman easily won 7. Not sure how you could give him any less. Bogus decision. But yes, Rahman being Rahman, he was way overweight and still won. Had he been 230-240, he would have won every round.

 

He was a lot more exciting than most other heavies.

 

I had it either 115-113 or 116-112, can't remember which one.

 

I had it 7-5 as well. I thought it was a VERY easy fight to score. One judge had Tua winning 8-4. Enough said.

 

Powerful man, took up the sport late on and went on to win the HW title... credit to him.

 

Boxing is just weird like that I guess. Holyfield fights some of the hardest hitters ever and the guy who hurt him the most with one punch was John Ruiz of all people. I doubt that was the first temple shot Evander was hit with that he didn't see coming.

Maskaev was hit with a hard right hand against the ropes early on by Rahman. That and some other punches seemed like a better shot than what McCall hit him with. From what I remember, McCall's punch wasn't a blind shot that he didn't see coming.