Heavyweight Journeymen

Wa1nuts
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by Wa1nuts »

loaded_gloves wrote:Oh sorry, those big bulging biceps and pecs must be genetic then.
Or maybe its from training?!
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by loaded_gloves »

Yeah serious weight-lifting, the effects of which being that the rare time someone fit, or not even fit but persistently aggressive, makes them fight at a pace they unravel and lose inside the distance.
rubberneck
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by rubberneck »

Marion Wilson was one tough s.o.b.

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

Apparently he was never floored and only stopped once on a cut, and he'd been in with some quality fighters.
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

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loaded_gloves wrote:Yeah serious weight-lifting, the effects of which being that the rare time someone fit, or not even fit but persistently aggressive, makes them fight at a pace they unravel and lose inside the distance.
Like Chisora?
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by loaded_gloves »

rubberneck wrote:Marion Wilson was one tough s.o.b.

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

Apparently he was never floored and only stopped once on a cut, and he'd been in with some quality fighters.
Wilson was down twice, against Jimmy Thunder and Terrence Lewis. A very hard man but awful to watch due to his mauling Ruiz style.
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

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dookus wrote:
loaded_gloves wrote:Yeah serious weight-lifting, the effects of which being that the rare time someone fit, or not even fit but persistently aggressive, makes them fight at a pace they unravel and lose inside the distance.
Like Chisora?
Thanks for helping prove my point. Vitali said Chisora was his toughest fight since Lennox Lewis. Imagine your next toughest fight being against a man carrying too much weight and who throws wide, clumsy slapping punches.

Chisora wouldn't even be in the top 20 in the 1990s, and as discussed here by others, probably wouldn't be a well regarded journeyman.

Vitali cites him as his toughest win.

Wow.
the truth
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by the truth »

Not many decent British ones at the minute , dave ingleby uses to be good value for money and was better than his record suggested
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Re: Heavyweight Journeymen

Post by polecateddy »

Luke Simpkin on the UK domestic scene. But he's been retired a few yrs now.
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