This content is protected That's a seriously tough draw. Watts, Hagler and Kalule all in your first seven bouts? Granted...he was probably always going to incur a high number of stoppage losses. His chin wasn't great. It was plainly written on the wall: he was stopped multiple times in the amateurs (granted by hard punchers like Alan Minter and Emilio Correa Vaillant, but still. Headgear and everything...) He could have certainly used a touch of mercy in his matchmaking, however. It started bad and never let up. Forde would end up losing to Luis Resto (yes, that Resto...but Forde went the distance with him, so I guess this was before Panama Lewis started loading gloves and was still restricting his cheating to crushing asthma pills into water for stamina boosts), Mike McCallum, Juan Domingo Roldán, and Matthew Hilton, plus several less recognizable names. Amazingly, in the midst of all that, he did manage to somehow eke out two pretty impressive wins. He beat Dave Boy Green and Kirkland Laing back to back over a three month period. Shows he wasn't entirely useless in the ring. He would later work at Gleason's gym and helped trained fellow Guyanese pugilist Michael Benjamin.
