Was"Super" Brian Nielsen double-crossed?

[Brutu]

I just cant help but feel that a lot of the bias against Nielsen was because of his phyique.
In a culture where one is easily awed by dudes who work out in gym's and have"six-pack abs".
If Nielsen had a physique of ornamental muscles,maybe more Americans and Brits would be see beyond his fat and be more impressed by his boxing skills.

[crusader]

I don't care what type of shape he was in, he wasn't very good. He could have been ripped and that wouldn't have changed the fact that he fought bums his entire career and would have never been able to compete against the best of the division.

[Brutu]

The man had 65 fights in his first 9 years as a professional.
How many recent top ten heavyweights have had that many?
Those sound like old school numbers to me.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

[gregor]

Also as far as Nielsen having not ever fought outside of his native Denmark .
How many of the top contender American heavyweights in the late 1990's fought outside the USA?

That is completely different. USA are no1 in boxing, so you can fight the best fighters available (who were mostly from USA as well)
and get good coverage without moving from there. You can say similar things about Germany, there were guys like for example Michalczewski - he stayed there practically whole career, but was still decent titleholder as he fought the best opponents available (apart from RJJ who also preferred to stay in the USA, but that is different story).

No offence, but from boxing point of view Denmark is not really relevant country, and staying there whole career (and fighting past prime/shot fighters mixed with nobodies on top of it) is not even comparable to RJJ staying in the USA or DM in Germany.

I have nothing against Nielsen, contrary, I think he could do much better if he stayed up to the challenge, even if it would probably mean a couple more losses on the record... he could definitely get a shot at the title, although I do not see him winning with any titleholder in the period you mentioned... maybe small underdog chance against Moorer.