Who did Ike Ibeabuchi knockout?

Brought up on a diet of yams, groundnuts and spinach, along with the study of 1970s boxing footage (and episodes of Popeye), Ibeabuchi would grow up to become 'Super Foreman' a faster, bigger, stronger, fitter, higher-output version of Big George.

After all, he did KO the giant Chris Byrd - Big George couldn't have KO'd Byrd.



And, if you believe that^, you'll believe anything...

 

What did he mean Bryd was ranked No.1?

 

He had no head movement and he was predictable.

 

No, Holy was a far better counter puncher.

 

Frazier had far better head movement than Ike and hooks came up and fast.

 

Charles was far more skilled than Ike and far harder to hit, Walcott was more skilled than Bryd.

 

Ibeabuchi is an overrated joke. You got some people saying that he was "a bigger stronger version of Foreman with stamina" lmao Foreman knocks this nobody the **** out

 

But Holyfield went to church more. That's all that was. You put Ike in church then what's left? Who will beat him?

 

In all seriousness, I think Ibeabuchi would have been a force in the heavyweight division, going in to the 2000's. However, the absence of results, subsequent to his KO of Byrd, naturally makes for ripe ground from which big speculations grow.

I think Ike was heavy-handed, but I don't think he was a KO artist per se. He tended to stalk and tag his quarry and throw everything at them, once he had them going.

Ideas about Ibeabuchi's durability get an uplift, on the strength of his tear-up with Tua, but I think this is often an overplayed card, given the way a lot of the action went, i.e. as @young griffo has already pointed out, albeit from a different angle, there was a lot of "mauling inside work".

It was not like bombs were being exchanged round after round and Tua, to my mind, never really put it all together in that bout, anyway.

Generally, when I read grand claims of what Ibeabuchi was, I take them with a pinch of salt. Ike beat Tua and Byrd. They were good wins on his way up the ratings but, other than this, so what?

 

Ike had all of 20 fights before going off the rails. I've never really seen too many people on the boards and forums I frequent over the years posting about him saying he was the next/last great, but squandered talent or anything. I think he probably could've continued on to be a good contender. Who knows? I don't, you don't, he don't, she don't. But the title of the thread, to say who else did he knock out, well no one. He only had 20 fights. Personally, I think knocking out a defensive fighter, a good one, and Byrd was that, in your 19th fight is an achievement of note, but just that. He did not get the opportunity to knock anyone else out, nor be knocked out, by anyone else, so we shall never know just what "The President" would, or wouldn't be. But if he could've continued on, and did so with the chin displayed in the Tua fight, that, and being an active puncher, was gonna be enough to win many fights. Against ATG's, not likely, but other strong contenders, I think quite likely. But anyone shi tting on the guy, or blowing the guy up to be the next big thing, both sets are going overboard in my view

 

So you're admitting that Shavers biggest win was over a guy (Jimmy Ellis) who had been 17-5 at middleweight, whose last significant win at heavyweight (disputed win over Patterson) was almost 5 years before fighting Shavers, who never had a significant win after the Shavers fight going 2-4-1 for the rest of his career, and weighed less than 200 pounds for the Shavers fight?

well, if Shavers mentioned it in his book, it has to be true, we know that no fighter ever made an excuse for a loss...Shavers didn't also wear a heavy costume into the ring prior to the fight did he? Wonder why the Boxing Illustrated report didn't mention that Shavers broke his hand in the fight...?

 

Couldn't tell you what/who/when/where/'why "he" meant.