James Green was a tough, skilled fighter. He had fast hands and a decent peekaboo defense. He was very busy and fought well on the inside. Negatives: He was short. He had a very short reach. He bled a lot. He did not fight well when cut. Some fighters ignore the blood or fight harder when they bleed, Green retreated into a shell and stopped fighting. This directly led to him being stopped by Animal Fletcher in a fight Green was dominating until being cut. Green gave Mugabi a very tough fight and had him almost out on his feet. Bobby Czyz was kind of similar to Green, but he was bigger and stronger but had a worse defense than Green. Czyz was also better managed but his "Proper Pigmentation" opened up a lot of possiblilites for him. Czyz was somewhat of an overachiever and did well to win a 175 title and a Cruiserweight title but he was never the best fighter in either division at anytime. His first fight with Chares Williams was a great fight and an upset at the time.
James hard rock was being looked at very seriously as a threat especially after his huge upset win over Scypion in mar. 82, one of the biggest upsets of the decade regardless of division finally met his waterloo against the indomitable Frank Fletcher in an all out war. Had Frank hurt several times especially the third but could not finish the animal off who, came back in the 6th with an all out attack even more lethal than Aaron Pryor. so fearsome was it that even hard rock was petrified into extinction and never the same after that the James Green of that fight wouldve whipped Mugabi
Nice post, Czyz did have some respectable skills in the early 80's and was on a minor roll but after he got beat up by Hamsho in 1983, he lost his mojo.... Green was a little bad ass, a short block of muscle had a solid resume of work, loved his fight against FLetcher , there should have been a rematch:deal, DAMN I MISS THE 1980'S!!!!!!!!:|
Green was tough fighter, should've beaten Mugabi, TBH. And Czyz was a real good fighter for a moment, they probably should've matched him up with his boy Ramos, James Shuler, or even Tony Ayala instead of Hamsho, that a tremendous jump even for him.He did okay for himself, however.
With a little help from the ever-savvy matchmaking skills of his managers. "Carefully moved" should have been emblazoned on the back of Czyz's robe.
