Michael Nunn: How do you remember him?

One of the most unrealized talents in the last few decades, if not ever.

People will tell you that if he fought Kalamby another 100 times that punch would never happen again. And yet Nunn MADE it happen the first time, against Sumbu. And that's against the guy that stole McCallum and Herol Graham's 0.

 

It's Michael's own fault people will tell you that.He only had a very short window of giving good performances and hardly ever even bothered to throw properly delivered left-crosses like that shot.He never gave a good performance again after that fight either.

Nunn was a massive waste of talent, though i do love watching his fight with Frank Tate.A great body puncher too, with more power on his shots than McCallum.

 

Fantastic talent consdiered to be the heir apparent to Ray Leonard. A southpaw with strong fundamentals. Toney's finest moment was stopping him.

 

Do you remember him knocking Roldan down with an arm punch while going backwards?

Nunn actually fought all the way up to cruiserweight and was knocking guys out all the way up there too.

 

he destroyed Roldan with uppercuts to the body.then Juan did his usual quitjob realising he wasn;t going to win.

 

I know, I'm talking about one of the knockdowns.

 

I remember it.Didn't he shove him over after punching him though?.Can't remember if Roldan was actually hurt.

 

Not that I remember. Nunn was backpedaling his ass to the ropes and he caught Roldan rushing in with a arm shot.

Commentators noted it,and it always comes to mind when I think of Nunn's power or comments on him not having much.

 

Here's how I remember him:

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A better version of Fernando Vargas, Naseem Hamed, or Davey Moore. Someone who rose to prominence, promised the world, lost badly, and then slumped into retirement. Nunn was extremely talented, a real "could have been". He was just unlucky to run into the mw '91-'94 version of James Toney, one of the most underrated fighters ever IMO, a genius.

 

I don't think you can get by with calling James Toney underrated. He's universally highly regarded, quite overrated in my honest opinion. He was also losing clearly prior to catching Nunn in the 9th. A case of two very talented fighters who had their share of mental issues, one of which wanted it more that day, and was able to get it against a careless, if even more talented, opponent.

 

Toney really psyched Nunn out before the fight, and supposedly Nunn was already into drugs pretty hard by the time of the Toney fight.

Bad combination.

Nunn had a very good chin, anyway. Barkley was just two fights removed from sparking Thomas Hearn's and one fight removed from giving a motivated Duran absolute hell when Nunn goofed around and effortless outclassed him over 12.

Like I said, under appreciated because of what he should have been.

 

I thought Nunn looked poor against Barkley, his clowning around made many of the rounds very close.

Arum was going berserk at him after the fight, though he was way over the top.