BoxRec

Boxing always throws up a fighter that's maybe not as well thought of or as skilled as his opponent but he seems to have the 'better' guys number. Obviously styles make fights. Who can you guys think of? Off the top of my head Vernon Forrest v Shane Mosely and Junior Jones v Barrera spring to mind.....

Arguably Groves against DeGale? Although I'd take JDG in a rematch but you never know...

Stuarty30 wrote:Arguably Groves against DeGale? Although I'd take JDG in a rematch but you never know...

Yeah often when I look JDG's boxrec I think to myself how did he lose to Groves but to be fair GG is a decent boxer he just has mental lapses in fights

Is Pacquiao/Marquez one? I cant tell,if Manny's "better" or just a bigger star,he's also a lot more active than JMM,thus building a bigger legacy

Audley Harrison and everybody he ever fought.

Iran Barkley was Tommy Hearn's bogeyman.

forrest vs mosley

Tarver v Jones

Darnell Boone

handsofstone wrote:Is Pacquiao/Marquez one? I cant tell,if Manny's "better" or just a bigger star,he's also a lot more active than JMM,thus building a bigger legacy

JMM is a good one. He always gave Pac all sorts of bother. Knew how to time him and done it to perfection in their last meeting.

Ken Norton was to an extent Ali's bogeyman.

Wasn't Jessie Fergusson an actual Boogieman to Ray Mercer when he stole a title shot from Mercer by refusing to take Mercer's alleged in fight bribe to lay down in the first fight?

definite jmm v pacman. i have that fight 4-0 to jmm

handsofstone wrote:Is Pacquiao/Marquez one? I cant tell,if Manny's "better" or just a bigger star,he's also a lot more active than JMM,thus building a bigger legacy

I'd agree JMM is Pacs bogeyman.

Jose Castillio - Floyd
Holyfield - Tyson
Golota - Bowe
Ezzard Charles - Archie Moore
Joe Wallcott - Joe Louis
Ken Norton - Ali
Sonny Liston - Patterson
Jermain Taylor - B-Hop
Vince Phillips - Tszyu
Humberto Gonzales - Carbajal

Liston was just way better than Patterson. I wouldn't put that in the bogeyman category.

Purple Aki vs bodybuilders

Shoji Oguma v Chan-Hee Park?

Steve Collins

Sean Dodd being Scott Cardles bogeyman ?

Dodd should have 2 wins over him

Luis Santana was Terry Norris' bogeyman for a couple of fights at least.

An example closer to home, could you say Derry Mathews is Anthony Crolla's bogeyman?

kbackup408 wrote:

Stuarty30 wrote:Arguably Groves against DeGale? Although I'd take JDG in a rematch but you never know...

Yeah often when I look JDG's boxrec I think to myself how did he lose to Groves but to be fair GG is a decent boxer he just has mental lapses in fights

I asked the question in a previous thread and never got a decent response so i'll ask again. Who has GG had mental lapses against?

jaymitch81 wrote:

kbackup408 wrote:

Stuarty30 wrote:Arguably Groves against DeGale? Although I'd take JDG in a rematch but you never know...

Yeah often when I look JDG's boxrec I think to myself how did he lose to Groves but to be fair GG is a decent boxer he just has mental lapses in fights

I asked the question in a previous thread and never got a decent response so i'll ask again. Who has GG had mental lapses against?

You asked me before and if you check back you'll find I answered your question. Are you related to GG?

Stuarty30 wrote:

jaymitch81 wrote:

kbackup408 wrote:

Yeah often when I look JDG's boxrec I think to myself how did he lose to Groves but to be fair GG is a decent boxer he just has mental lapses in fights

I asked the question in a previous thread and never got a decent response so i'll ask again. Who has GG had mental lapses against?

You asked me before and if you check back you'll find I answered your question. Are you related to GG?

Nope

I bet Fabrice Tiozzo has nightmares about Virgil Hill......both times Tiozzo was favored to win, yet the first fight sees him having his unbeaten record spoiled, and then seven years later when the momentum seemed back in Tiozzo's favor, Hill blitzes him in one for what was a considerable upset on paper.

He won everything else, but couldn't figure out Hill.