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I don't know for sure if he is a huge draw, but I'm assuming Valuev draws big wherever he goes because people like to see freaks of nature.

iceman21287 wrote:I don't know for sure if he is a huge draw, but I'm assuming Valuev draws big wherever he goes because people like to see freaks of nature.

Now that I think about freaks of nature....

Primo Carnera was a huge draw wherever he went (in Europe especially).

Sven Ottke, often decried outside Germany as boring, sold out at nearly every location he defended his titles.

Wilfred Benitez.

(With the exception of the 3rd Frazier fight) post 1974 Muhammad Ali.

I dont know if he was a huge draw or not. but I do know that one right hand from Edwin Rosario and Hector Camacho was suddenly a little bit defensive henceforth.

Sherlock wrote:Sven Ottke, often decried outside Germany as boring, sold out at nearly every location he defended his titles.

Uhoh....Sven Ottke...where's Pringle at

Decagon wrote:

Sherlock wrote:Sven Ottke, often decried outside Germany as boring, sold out at nearly every location he defended his titles.

But not all of those church basements were that big.

They were, I'm afraid.

Decagon wrote:Carlos Monzon

I don't consider Monzon boring. He did what he had to do to win, and usually that meant dishing out some big time damage. He had plenty of good fights.

Eddy Mustapha Mohaumed. He did have the big punch that helped make up fo his lack of aggressivness.

It's news to me that Monzon, Johnson and Ali were boring!!!.... how can anyone call Ali boring when he was in some of the most exciting heavyweight fights ever seen???.... :x

Ali's fights with Ron Lyle and Jimmy Young are tantamount to torture.

ebeneezer wrote:Ali's fights with Ron Lyle and Jimmy Young are tantamount to torture.

I don't see that at all. Against Lyle Ali let him wear himself out, against Young it was a strategic boxing match!.... remember that, boxing is a science, this isnt just handbags at dawn after too many shandys in the pub. As for exciting fights, Ali fought Frazier, Norton and Shavers after Zaire.... all of which were more than decent fights, even the first Spinks fight was a pretty good fight to watch... I have to wonder how many of Ali's fights some of you guys have actually seen???...

Decagon wrote:Lennox Lewis
Carlos Monzon

I actually enjoy watching both of these fighters.

The title fight between Monzon and Briscoe is a very entertaining fight in my opinion.

ebeneezer wrote:Wilfred Benitez..

Again I have to admit at times the defencive wizard was a joy to behold.

ebeneezer wrote:(With the exception of the 3rd Frazier fight) post 1974 Muhammad Ali.

I enjoyed the two Spinks fights. And the Norton and Shavers fights wern't too bad either.

Bernard Hopkins

I dont consider Lennox Lewis to be a boring fighter. He was cautious in some of his fights, but did what he needed to win

Monzon boring ??? I guess that means precision fighting is boring. Wilfred Benitez is also boring if you get tired watching a guy who had radar like defense in his prime. Lennox Lewis could be boring if he didn't score a KO in the first 6 rounds.

Virgil Hill was a boring fighter who was a huge drawing
card in North Dakota.

- Chuck Johnston

buster mathis snr and butterbean both wore HUGE DRAWERS J mccline's are pretty awesome too

Roy Jones

Tony Galento wasnt a boring fighter but at 244lbs had huge drawers to cover his fat ass.
Theres a story to illustrate this but i dont know how true it is. Apparantly
in 1948, some years after Galento had retired, they were staging a juniors bill at Laural Garden in Newark NJ. In the afternoon they set up the ring but someone forgot the ropes!! Fortunately, a pair of Tony's old drawers were found in the locker room at Laurel. Somehow they managed to stretch the drawers around the four posts of the ring and the event was saved, although the view for the spectators was poor. I'm told that amateur footage exists of the evening. A rather humorous moment being when one of the young guys on the bill uses the elastic of Galento's undergarments to vault into the ring. The slo-mo reveals the boy spinning in the air 12 times before making a perfect landing.

Lennox Lewis is a hideously boring fighter.

His fights with Tua and Tyson was just a pure joke and to think I stayed up at 5 AM to watch Lewis clinch an old disinterested Tyson every second. You could say that Lewis clinched more in the Tyson fight than Ruiz did in the Golota or even the Rahman fight - And they went 12 rounds!

virgil hill always seemed popular in dakota.

dalek wrote:virgil hill always seemed popular in dakota.

I think sheep are popular in Dakota too.