The false perception of Simon Brown.

True. Brown was getting a lot of accolades for the way he was winning fights, and he was somewhat feared at that time.

With that being said, he didn't always fight smart, and this cost him dearly in several of his fights. He slugged too much when he shouldn't have and could have been a better boxer if he wanted to. Carribean men tend to have too much machismo. Brown kind of had that attitude.

 

It's great to watch how they're playing chess early in the bout with a view to end it, well at least Brown is. Very nice. I get your point Pea, and definitley taken, he's still puncher by nature but he oxed with a view to that approach very well.

Thanks for that vid

 

McCallum is a good comparison Pea.The peak Brown had a good deal of similarities with him.Similar deceptively long reach as well.

Against Starling he was a bit raw, but to me still much better than he became later on.He was actually on the backfoot looking to counter for long parts of the fight.It's a good classy fight.

 

Brown should of, could of, but didn't...

Brought up the right way, losing the Starling fight seemed to be the making of the man as he learnt from his defeat.

He looked far more impressive beating Vaca than Honeyghan did, and the Trice rematch may of been his peak performance.

But then something went wrong, with the hardcore boxing world potentially at his feet, he looks pretty bad beating Blocker (I think they were good friends, and the fight was a struggle for both), and never really recovered his boxing form (as the Terrible one found out, he could still bang).

He looked so poor losing to McGirt, who himself was trying to rebuild his reputation, and thus with hindsight the defeat does not look so bad, but at the time the defeat seemed to be the end of Brown ever being considered amongst the elite of the era.

So Brown to me is a little overrated today as people try and hype the potential rather than the actual performances. Plus I think people feel sorry for him with the the Pettway defeat.

His career compared to today's fighters is top notch, but for the 80s was a bit of a disappointment, and below top standard.

 

Him and Mcallum were both Jamaicans too. I like Brown, his defense was a little loosey, but he was an exciting fighter. Ill never forget him getting laid out by Pettway and punching into the air while he was unconscious on his back.

 

A few thoughts....

Simon Brown is dreadfully underappreciated....reminds me of Orlando Canizales in that he fought in a pretty competitive era and no one could beat him for the most part....but you hardly ever hear them mentioned....both had long title reigns....same era too.

The Starling fight wasn't really that close from what I've heard(I don't think that I've seen it)....huge difference in experience....bad style matchup for Brown....big puncher before honing overall skills vs. defensive master with a granite chin and a pretty good punch to make matters even more difficult....I can believe that it wasn't a great matchup.

Brown would probably crush most of today's "welterweights" IMO, most of whom, unlike Brown, aren't really welterweights....he'd probably toil his career away on Friday Night Fights because no "champions" would want to box him.

I always wanted to see Brown vs. Julian Jackson....it probably wouldn't have lasted long....and in a trilogy(which would probably only have totaled about five rounds....lol), I wouldn't know who to pick to win.

Brown's ambush of Norris was sweeeeeeeet.

Brown's demolition of Jorge Vaca was frightening.