Eddie Muhammad VS. Qawi !
It seems like a natural doesn't it? Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Eddie Mustafa Muhhammad. Both of these guys a long with Spinks, and Mathew Saad Muhammad where the top guys of the light heavyweights for some time. Most the guys fought each other sometimes a few of them engaged in a couple of bouts but Qawi and Muhammad never fought. It would have been a great fight.I would have to go with Qawi. Qawi was an excellent fighter who beat alot of tough guys in both the cruiserweight division and lightheavyweight division. His main problem was he fought as a lightheavyweight during Micheal Spinks'era(an all time great who never lost at lightheavyweight) and fought at cruiserweight during Holyfield's era( the best cruiser of all time and also never lost at cruiser). Had Holyfield and Spinks not been around Qawi would have cleaned out the divisions. At cruiser I can name almost all of the major players of the 80's and Qawi fought and beat them. At lightheavy he also was very dominant until his unification fight with spinks. It should be noted Qawi still managed to drop spinks in the only knock down of the fight, and Spinks won running the whole way never engaging. There was a great series of fights at lightheavyweight during that era with some great fighters...I think Qawi stands as second best behind Spinks for that era.
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I would say Qawi would win. The guy was tough as nails. He had a hell of a chin. I seen him fight Foreman when Foreman was on his comeback and Foreman could not put him down! Qawi even won a couple rounds! This is when Foreman KO'ed 18 of 19 comeback opponents and remember Qawi was 5'6" and a fat chubby 220, Foreman was 6'3" and 260! Qawi was KO'ed by Holyfield the second time but gave Holyfield hell the first fight. Holyfield would have Ko'ed any Cruiserweight anyways. Qawi not only had a great chin but he was relentless and fearless and could punch. Spinks was a good puncher at lightheavy but Qawi stalked him easily walked threw his punches fearlessly chasing his running advasary. Mathew Saad Muhammad was a good fighter and a good puncher as well but could not hold off Qawi. Qawi walked in and banged him out. I couldn't see Eddie Mustafa Muhammad hurting Qawi or hitting hard enough to earn his respect. Qawi took the best shots from Cruisers and Heavyweights and stood tall, so Muhammad would have to try to out box him. Spinks was able to run and win, but he still got caught and went down. I think Spinks is a much better boxer than Muhammad, so look for Qawi catching Muhammad trying to out box him. Qawi by 11th round KO.
Qawi also fought Jerry Martin TKO'ing him in the 6th. As well as Eddie Davis and Johnny Davis who beat him early in his career by decision but Qawi avenged his loss by twice returning the favor. And yeah your right he did have no amateur fights! ANd he didn't take very much time before he jumped into some stiff competion either fighting a guy who was 14-2 when he was just 3-1-1 and KO'ing the guy in the first round! He did't even have 20 fights under his belt when he took the title! He must have been a natural to start in his mid 20s and have no amateur fights and progress so rapidly to a title. A rare story indeed. Not to many fighters came up like that, certainly not too many two division champions! They both lost to the best of their era by 15 round decisions(micheal spinks). I read some one post Spinks was a pretender...well he was the goods at lightheavy and he fought during a pretty good era for lightheavy. TOo bad Jones didn't fight back then too! Imagine Jones vs Spinks, Qawi, Saad Muhammad, Mustafa Muhammad, Marvin Johnson. Then again Jones would have probably ducked them if he carried himself the way he does today!
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