Who Was Not A Great Fighter?

Oh, this is easy, Calzaghe.

 

Yesiree

 

Donald Curry
Terry Norris
Jimmy Young

 

I think Joe tessitore asked journeyman and lightweight John Brown who fought a who's who of fighters: who was not the real deal "that you fought against?" He replied with, Shane Mosley. I couldn't believe that lol.

 

Not even convinced he was a 'great' puncher, mcvey.

I'm a MAB enthusiast, so it's in my interest to talk Hamed up as much as possible, but there was a direct correlation between his performances declining as his level of opposition improved. A very good puncher, but absolutely there for the taking in 2001. Rewind back to just before the Bungu fight and his stock had taken a considerable hit after a string of less than stellar performances. He wasn't great.

 

Barrera said he hit really hard whereas I remember McCollough saying Morales hit harder. I will say this, there’s no way Hamed was in Danny Lopez’s league power-wise at that weight.

 

They used to describe the championship rounds, 13-15, as Ali’s Alley - in later career, they could have also described the judges as Ali’s Allies.

Tbh, I only thought the scoring was bad for the Norton rubber match.

 

I’d put KT very much on the cusp or just poking his head in.

All depends on one’s exact criteria for being GREAT and the degree of possible bandwidth/spectrum they’re allowing for the category.

I guess there naturally has to be some wiggle room - since we identify and rank ATGs anyway within the realm of greatness.

Then again, one could fix on an absolute minimum criterion that has to be satisfied at the very least, in terms of entry level.

 

Ken Norton is such a low hanging fruit he’s a watermelon.

 

Timothy Bradley

 

Uncle Jimmy Young is a great fighter.

 

I’m not begrudging them but there does appear to be a contingent of more intense Jimmy Young fans who consider him great.

I personally don’t think he makes it but I’ve come to appreciate his skillet a lot more over the years.

It doesn’t make him look anymore exciting for me though - but for a brief period he did hang with the big boys (with greater promise of his career a rualu going somewhere). and also beat a few of them - so he definitely had something at his very best.

 

One of the greatest ever.

 

I agree with this statement. Or I did last time I scored the third fight.