Lavern "Amir Mansour, The Hardcore" Moorer

He could've been a contender...prison is a *****

 

I watched his win against Kelvin Price, and followed his career a bit after that. If the dice had rolled slightly differently he could have made some good money and been in some good clashes that he came out of with a W.

Unfortunately, he has to go and stand in a corner next to Luis Ortiz and the other HWs who wasted their prime years.

Maybe an example to those HWs who are in their mid 20s to mid 30s who are fighting lame opposition once or twice a year. Better to make the most of what you have at the right time, rather than suddenly find yourself in your late 30s trying to take your shot then.

"the Sun is the same in a relative way ..." and all of that.

 

Awesome man, a great summary of a guy who could have been more.

 

Amir couldn't get good fights during the peak of his comeback..... He has every right to be bitter. Fully believe this guy was swerved by a lot of the top guys like he claims. High risk and super low reward.

 

Would have been better off at cruiserweight. He started off okay, but the punishment he received from these huge behemoths caused his punch resistance to decline. It's not a division a smaller fighter can afford to stand and trade. Unless your 260lb plus full of lard. Same thing will happen to that scrawny Usyk, the swollen cheek bones against Witherspoon is evidence of that!

 

Or Light-Heavyweight with the proper diet, most modern Cruisers were naturally bigger than him.

190-Cruiser would have been excellent for him, he would have matched perfectly vs Qawi & Young Holy

 

GTFO. Dude was usually a few lbs over 220. There is no way it would have been healthy for him to drain down to 175.
It's not like he was some fat ****er or overly muscular either.

 

Please. Usyk is 6'3. Hardly tiny for a modern heavyweight.
Mansour was about 5'11.

 

25yo fully grown Amir Mansour started boxing at 200 lbs, 200lbs with the whole gear on, & 10lbs of 1990s cheap Creatine water, he was surrounded by low-IQ common criminals, who thought of "Big" in a positive manner, so he tried his best to get "Big". He easily could have made 175 if he wanted to, but at that time Mike Tyson-Big payday was on everybody's mind, so obviously handlers & boxers wanted him to get "big" for the big payday

 

Usyk is small for Heavy, but lets see if he is on Pernell Whitaker skill level & some how he can neutralize Anthony Joshua size advantage

Very few boxers were able to fully neutralize boxers size, almost seemed like magic, those were exceptional boxers, they knew how to make size advantage seem as a disadvantage

Pernell Whitaker | Ivan Calderon | Nicolino Locche & to a lesser extent SRL | Pep | Floyd

If a boxer is not on that Skill-level, every inch counts against them

 

The bodybuilder is pretty skilled himself gold medal and all. Was out boxing Wlad before he got dropped to his knees.

 

Anthony Joshua can afford to be a body-builder at 6'7" & adequate frame. The Body-building physique might have worked early in his career, as a psychological deterrent vs boxers who assume muscle = Power, so it wasn't a wasted effort, it did help reduce the chances of getting KTFO earlier. Andy Snickers Ruiz is an out-of-shape boxer whose Gastro-Narcissistic-appetite was balanced off with Fearless-Confidence, Iron-Chin & a high ring IQ, he probably KTFO a couple of Hormonally-Over-Confident-Body-Builders who tried to cut the line in-front of him, so he came into the ring Under-estimating the Olympic Gold Medalist as another Glass-chinned Body builder....Paid off for the first fight & proved him wrong in the rematch.

Midgets short on inches, who don't fight in their optimum weight, become food for Elite boxers...

 

Entertaining fighter and gave us some really fun fights but limited and too small to mix it with the big boys