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WHAT WOULD HAD HAPPEN IF AARON PRYOR WOULD HAD JUMP TO WELTERWEIGHT AND FACED THOMAS HEARNS AND SUGAR RAY LEONARD IN 1981? I DON'T KNOW WHY AARON PRYOR DID NOT MOVED TO WELTERWEIGHT AT THE END OF 1980 OR AT THE BEGGINING OF 1981 WHERE HE COULD HAD MAKED MILLIONS WITH LEONARD AND HEARNS AND DURAN. WINNER OR LOSER INSTEAD HE JUST STAYED AT THAT WEIGHT THE JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION. HE COULD HAD FACED DONALD CURRY BUT HE WAITED AND WAITED FOR MANCINI AND THE FIGHT NEVER HAPPEND. MY GUESS HE ACTUALLY NEVER WANTED TO TAKE THE RISK LIKE ROBERTO DURAN AND ALEXIS ARGUELLO JUMPING IN WEIGHTS DIVISIONS. YES HE WAS A NATURAL LIGHTWEIGHT AND HE WON THE JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT TITLE BECAUSE HE NEVER GOT A TITLE SHOT AT LIGHTWEIGHT. BUT FOR ME HE JUST LET GO A POTENTIAL MILLIONARES BATTLES AGAINST LEONARD, DURAN, AND HEARNS. IN A REMATCH WITH HEARNS PROBABLY HE COULD HAD BEEN KO BECAUSE HEARNS WAS A NATURAL WELTERWEIGHT HE TOOK THE BEST FROM ARGUELLO BUT ARGUELLO WAS JUMPING IN WEIGHT SINCE HE STARTED HIS CAREER AS A BANTAMWEIGHT AND FEATHERWEIGHT. SO ACTUALLY AT JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT PROBABLY HE DID NO HAD THOSE DEVASTATING PUNCHES WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING AT 130 POUNDS. LEONARD COULD HAD BEATING HIM AND DURAN THE SAME BUT AT LEAST HE COULD HAD WON MILLIONS.

Leonard and Hearns would beat him, I think, though he would be competitive.

Aaron is taylor made for Hearns. Too small, tough but he'd be on the end side of the Hitman's flicker jab. I think Tommy can end it in five rounds.

I think he'd give Leonard a run for his money, he can mix it up offensively, but given the lack of any physical advantage, Leonard may take this one, although I think Pryor would be pumped to fight Leonard and may make it a 50/50 fight.

There was a link of an amatuer fight between Pryor and Hearns on here somewhere.

Pryor beat Hearns as an amateur, but in the pros it would have been much different. Hearn's would KO him.

With Leonard it would be a fight for a bit, but there is no way Pryor out boxes SRL. I think Leonard would have stopped him late or won a lopside UD.

Pyror was just too small to really threaten either Hearns or Leonard in the pro ranks.

I do not think Pryor was good enough to beat Hearns, Leonard or Duran at their very best. He has a better chance wtih Pipino Cuevas, Carlos Palomino or Wilfred Benitez at 147 lbs, but still, it is a toss up.

Yes that is why he never jumped to welterweight he new he was going to fight stronger and better boxers. But i still wondering what happend between the 13 and 14 rounds in the first arguello fight. He looked very tired at the end of the 13 round and suddenly in the fourteen like leonard said where the hell got that energy to stopped arguello like that?

jonp wrote:There was a link of an amatuer fight between Pryor and Hearns on here somewhere.

The quality kind of sucks but it's a good fight.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BvlgGbrKzs

TuffCustomer wrote:He was the best of all time but he got on drugs. Too bad because he would have been another Armstrong and maybe even been able to fight the HW guys and walk away a winner. I'm serious he was that good. I doubt mostg of you could even learn that from watching him unless you have a good eye.

Just what we need, another egomaniac.

You're on drugs if you think a 140 pounder could've beaten any HWs in the 80's, not with Holmes and Tyson ruling the division

TuffCustomer wrote:

Mattyp151 wrote:

TuffCustomer wrote:He was the best of all time but he got on drugs. Too bad because he would have been another Armstrong and maybe even been able to fight the HW guys and walk away a winner. I'm serious he was that good. I doubt mostg of you could even learn that from watching him unless you have a good eye.

Just what we need, another egomaniac.

You're on drugs if you think a 140 pounder could've beaten any HWs in the 80's, not with Holmes and Tyson ruling the division

Well you know how to sit at a computer I see. Now use google, put the word boxing in the box and do some reading. Then come back and talk to me. Arent you the guy who says I should not even be here? Are you like the guy at Wal Mart who welcomes people to this place? That was a cold reception dude.

So wasn't your "I would knock out Wlad" BS. Talk about phoney.

Sorry, but Pryor was top notch for 140 and would've been at 147 and maybe 164, then at 160 he runs into Hearns, Leonard and Hagler, and gets stopped by all 3.

abosworth wrote:

jonp wrote:There was a link of an amatuer fight between Pryor and Hearns on here somewhere.

The quality kind of sucks but it's a good fight.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BvlgGbrKzs

Hearns was a different Am than a pro...he only had like 10 or 15 KOs in 100+ fights.

Mattyp151 wrote:

abosworth wrote:

jonp wrote:There was a link of an amatuer fight between Pryor and Hearns on here somewhere.

The quality kind of sucks but it's a good fight.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BvlgGbrKzs

Hearns was a different Am than a pro...he only had like 10 or 15 KOs in 100+ fights.

I realize that. Hearns was 17 in that fight. Still, it was a good fight.

abosworth wrote:

Mattyp151 wrote:

abosworth wrote: The quality kind of sucks but it's a good fight.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BvlgGbrKzs

Hearns was a different Am than a pro...he only had like 10 or 15 KOs in 100+ fights.

I realize that. Hearns was 17 in that fight. Still, it was a good fight.

Oh, no question, but it just shows that Am and Pro fights are two different animals.

TuffCustomer wrote:He was the best of all time but he got on drugs. Too bad because he would have been another Armstrong and maybe even been able to fight the HW guys and walk away a winner. I'm serious he was that good. I doubt mostg of you could even learn that from watching him unless you have a good eye.

come on. he never wanted to fight at welterweight. and when he did was stopped by bobby joe young

marchegiano007 wrote:

TuffCustomer wrote:He was the best of all time but he got on drugs. Too bad because he would have been another Armstrong and maybe even been able to fight the HW guys and walk away a winner. I'm serious he was that good. I doubt mostg of you could even learn that from watching him unless you have a good eye.

come on. he never wanted to fight at welterweight. and when he did was stopped by bobby joe young

Let's call that what it is though, he was drugged out and on a 2 and a half year lay off. That being said, he still doesn't fight at HW and walk away a winner.