James Broad Would Clean Out the HW Division Today!

You sold me here.

 

No doubt, considering the horrid state of the overweight coma like HW scene!

/Sarcasm

 

BIG DEE HERE= YOU MUST BE JOKING RIGHT!! THE 80s WAS A LOW POINT IN HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY. FAT,OVERWEIGHT, OUT OF SHAPE, FIGHTERS THATS WHY A IN SHAPE MIKE TYSON FEASTED ON THOSE GUYS. THE 90s
WERE THE HIGH POINT IN THE LAST 30 YRS. 1991 TO 1998. JAMES BROAD
WAS BIG, FAT OUT OF SHAPE AND WAS AT HIS BEST A MEDIOCRE HEAVYWEIGHT.

 

Funny how apt his name was. Same with Tubbs.

 

Dee, this is an obvious joke thread. A bit of a parody of threads which take relatively unimpressive fighters from previous eras and suggest that they would rule over today's division with an iron fist, like the recent one about Toney Galento.

 

I dont believe the 1990s were better than the 1980s.

I think the 80s gets a bad rap because of splintered titles and a few fat heavyweights. I actually think there were more talented heavyweight fighters in the mid-80s than in the mid-90s.

James Broad was crap, but he's not even in the top 25 of the 80s heavyweights, and he was never an elite fighter of his era.

 

Have you seen his fight against Whitherspoon ? he got pole-axed in second round...

 

I agree that we should exhume James "Broad Ass" Broad for just the purpose of cleaning out the heavyweight division today. (Just the sight of his corpulent corpse will be enough to cause today's timid titans to pass out from fear of being sat upon.)

 

His nickname was "broad ass" .....

 

James Brown could clean out those Big Bums.

 

No he wouldn't, he'd get punched out by Dave Jaco.

 

If old James clubbed them hard, maybe.

 

This thread is obviously a joke, but on a serious note, James Broad was a terrible waste of potential. As an amateur, he had a fairly respectable record and even made the 1980 US Olympic team ( that never competed ).

As a pro, he started out somewhat respectable, winning his first 12 fights before losing to M. Frazier. He salvaged himself enough to reach 17-1, but then got his ass handed to him by Tim Witherspoon. From then on, he went straight down hill. At times, he reached weights of over 300 Lbs, and was labeled as one of the most horribly conditioned fighters of the decade.

Apparently he died around 2000 ( probably from heart failure, if I were to guess. )

To address the topic of the thread, ( comical as it was intended ) Broad would not have my confidence at being very successful today. I think nearly all of the top rated heavyweights would have beaten James, and some of them would have done it with ease. I'm not saying that today's heavyweights are that good, I'm saying that Broad was really that bad. He was someone who could have been, but wasn't.....

 

James wouldn't do all that good.He barely made a dent in his time.He was lucky he didn't have to fight Mitch Green for the NABF title back then.I honestly would've like to see him Teo Stevenson, though, may have upset him.