mike mcallum

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tommo100
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mike mcallum

Post by tommo100 »

just how good was he,imo he never gets the credit he deserves,though it shows just how good herol graham was when he actually outboxed him
how would he have got on vs
hagler
leonard
monzon
SaadOffTheDeck
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Re: mike mcallum

Post by SaadOffTheDeck »

I think he would lose to all of them. His best chance might actually be Monzon.
Bobbyptsd
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Re: mike mcallum

Post by Bobbyptsd »

I agree that he'd probably lose to all three.

And I think he gets plenty of credit, for what it's worth. I mean, I see threads like this all the time talking about him like a murderer who could've beaten several ATG's. I'm just not seeing it, at least not to that extent.
BoxBuzz
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Re: mike mcallum

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McCallum gets better as we see his career in the rear view mirror......I think it's sentimentality. Not that he wasn't good, but it's always that "also ran" fighter that did not get a full option of opportunities that we love to suspect would have changed history "if only".
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Post by polecateddy »

I think he could beat the middle version of Leonard, and the fading version of Hagler who met Leonard. Against peak versions of Hagler and Monzon it would have been very close over 15 rounds.
Ambling Alp II
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Re: mike mcallum

Post by Ambling Alp II »

He was clearly not quite at the level of the these guys. Not to say that on a given night he could not score an upset, but he would lose most of the time.
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