How good was Johnny Nelson?

And how many defenses did Cloud haveatsch

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Once Johnny matured he was very hard to beat. If he was around today he would still be a World champion. I enjoyed watching him.

 

Its also worth mentioning that Nelson lost his first three fights.

I think he went on to lose around ten more fights before he finally won his world title, which he then went on to defend around twelve times without a loss.

That's quite inspiring.

 

Beat Carl Thompson for the belt and defended in a dozen times after a shaky start to his career. Worked hard at his craft and found a style to bring success, bit boring at times but got the job done.

 

I think the Carl Thompson fight was stopped prematurely. Just thought I'd mention it as Carl was a bit of a banger so its a decent win, although stopped way to early.

 

Yeah that was never a stoppage.

 

Yeah I seem to remember it being a bit of a early stoppage, was a long tiem ago though 98 / 99 cant remember exactly.

Still Thompson was a massive puncher still goes down a s a good win IMO

 

This is off topic but I remember Thompson doing a sort of rope-adope. He did it against Haye before landing that bomb. He might have being doing that against Nelson. Just saying.

 

Yeah that stoppage was awful, we'd seen him play possum in the Eubank fights previously and later we saw him turn fights around from the brink of defeat, he should have been given the chance to fight on or at the very least a rematch. As a Thomspon fan I was gutted by that result.

 

I echo a lot of what has been said, he took plenty of defeats before really finding his form. His style was a bit safety first but he picked up the WBO title and defended it plenty.
There was a time when Enzo Mac was WBU champion and was really pushing for a fight with Nelson but it never came off, Johnny retired. I remember a sky programme where Nelson went to Wales to interview Enzo and presumably start the build up to a fight between them, all very respectful on both sides. The official line at the time from Johnny was that he felt Enzo needed some time to mature.

 

he laso fought guillermo jones in his prime, the guy who battered denis lebedev when he was 42
he drawed with him. johnny nelson was a pretty good fighter but boring as people say.

 

Lanky and rangy but quite skilful for his size. I want to remember him for his superb performance against another great Brit in Carl The Cat Thompson. 45-12-2 is not too bad with 29 KOs and suffering only one Kayo to one of my favourites of all time Norbert Ekassi. Talking abring, remembre about the May brothers Toersten and Rudiger, Johnny stopped Rudiger in 7. And look at whom he lost or didn't win decisions to: Carlos de Leon, James Warring for the IBF Title ( that guy who was a martial arts master), Corrie Sanders, Franco Wanyama ( By Disqualification), Henry Akinwande, Adilson Rodrigues (twice). Retired undefeated for a whole decade from 1995 till 2005.