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Arguello's skills and abilty are greatly underrated

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I saw this fight when it first aired back in 1981 on CBS. Arguello thoroughly outboxed Watt to win a lopsided unanimous decision. RIP Alexis

Arguello's skills and abilty are greatly underrated

As were Jim Watt's. He was a great fighter and gave Arguello and Kenny Buchanan good, hard fights. From memory he beat everyone he faced (the other guys he lost to) apart from those two.

He had an excellent record and faced a lot of great fighters. Among them were wins over Howard Davis Jr, Charlie Nash, Sean O'Grady, Perico Fernandez, Antonio Guinaldo, Andre Holyk, as well as facing but losing good fights to Arguello, Buchanan, and Anthony Morodi.

I wonder how far Arguello would have gone today? With no Pryor to stop him at 140, he could have moved through 140 and into 147 winning a title there too. I wonder though if he could have beaten anyone at 154 today? At 5'10" and with his skill and power it's quite possible he could have been a titlist of sorts at 154 today. Weak division. Maybe not. I don't know.

I always thought Jim Watt was a relatively one handed fighter, once you took away his right hand he didn't have much of anything else, Arguello managed to do that and took Watt apart.

I always thought Jim Watt was a relatively one handed fighter, once you took away his right hand he didn't have much of anything else, Arguello managed to do that and took Watt apart.

Yeah, he was. He gave some trouble to everyone he faced though and did much better with what he had than you would have thought and ended up a good champion with some fine wins. Arguello was meant to slaughter him and people said afterward that Arguello was heading downhill and yet I think it just shows that Watt was a great little fighter and an underrated win for Arguello.

Not that I'm saying it's one of his greatest wins or anything like that, but he was a good, solid champion that had his best wins at the end of his career and was fighting better than ever at the tail end of his career instead of the start and middle of it like most.

Tge fact that Arguello wasn't able to KO him had nothing to do with him but showed what a fighter Watt was. He was one of the best out of the UK for those times.

when people talk about text-book boxing Arguello's one of the first names that come to mind

Yeah, he was. He gave some trouble to everyone he faced though and did much better with what he had than you would have thought and ended up a good champion with some fine wins. Arguello was meant to slaughter him and people said afterward that Arguello was heading downhill and yet I think it just shows that Watt was a great little fighter and an underrated win for Arguello.

Not that I'm saying it's one of his greatest wins or anything like that, but he was a good, solid champion that had his best wins at the end of his career and was fighting better than ever at the tail end of his career instead of the start and middle of it like most.

Tge fact that Arguello wasn't able to KO him had nothing to do with him but showed what a fighter Watt was. He was one of the best out of the UK for those times.

Indeed, I can agree with that. :fing02:

arguello was toying with him,watt was an overrated string bean,that lacked any type of offense that would of been able to sustain a victory over a boxer of arguellos calibre:boxing:

Watt was a good solid pro, won the title fairly late in life as I think he was waiting for Duran to retire. Met a better fighter in Arguello but was carried out on his shield so to speak.
Also beat John H Stracy as an amateur btw.