Shannon Briggs Comeback

Man he did not beat George Foreman. You clearly didn't watch that fight. Foreman DEFINITELY won but the judges fucked Foreman out of it to send him a message to retire. Foreman even said so in that post fight interview. Briggs made it the distance with old ass George, but did NOT, I repeat, did NOT beat George Foreman. He wouldn't beat the current George either. I remember that Botha fight. OMG that shit was on PPV. And Kushner wonders why he is the laughing stock of boxing promoters. That and Thunderbox are some of the reasons why. You clearly didn't get the point of the thread. It was a joke about a rediculous comeback. I never said that he was better than George Foreman. But the judges giving a message idea is stupid. Judges don't sit their and adjust their cards based on something else. It was just a bad decision. The only reason I opened this thread back up was to apologize to a boxer that was never that great and got picked on a lot. If you read the interview you would probably feel bad for him too and he seems like a good guy.

I see the point. Regardless of the white fighters King had ranked over long periods of time i think the most notable trick King pulled was having Tyson ranked the number one challenger by the WBC, WBA and IBF when he came out of prison. The fact that Tyson hadn`t had a fight in 4 years and walks out of prison the mandatory challenger for all the belts! Nobody complained as it was Mike Tyson and the monsy he brought to the sanctioning bodies was unreal....so king had his way!

I think it's a bad idea coming back cause he will just get knocked out all the ******* timeand he should change his name to Barry Briggs How ***. :p

That doesn`t make sense. Botha couldn`t have been King`s fall guy back then because he wasn`t with Don King when Botha fought Tyson. Yes, Botha was the IBF number 2 contender when he fought Tyson in 1999 but neither fighter was with Don King so what prupose had King paying off the IBF to rank a fighter he had no interest in?

I just read the second part of the interview. And I changed my mind about Shannon, he seems like a pretty cool guy. I am rooting for him. http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=844

ROFL :) was the point of this thread to excite everyone? or to point out a NON-potential dark horse in the HW division. A little of both Bob. A little of both.

Besides you could change his name to Bruiser and shannon would still suck :D ROFL :) was the point of this thread to excite everyone? or to point out a NON-potential dark horse in the HW division. Never pay again for live sex! | Hot girls doing naughty stuff for free! | Chat for free!

I can`t take any fighter seriously who indulges in a stop - start career! I think Briggs is bored or needs a few bucks. He isn`t interested in winning anything major. He`ll knock over a few bums then get outpointed by someone like Lance Whitiker or Wladimir Klitscko and promtly retire again!

He has beaten no one. He's an absolute fraud. I understand you saying that he's not any good, but how is he a fraud? Remember, Lewis lost twice to fighters he should have beaten easily, does that make him a fraud? If a guy calls himself a fighter, and you see him on T.V. wearing trunks and boxing gloves, and he's getting hit or hitting someone else, doesn't that make him a fighter?

ive always thought briggs smoked weed

Without confidence and motivation, your'e a tomato can at Heavy. without those two attributes, you can't compete in any kind of world class boxing..not just heavyweight btw ruiz lacks motivation and look at him..look at tyson,he lacks motivation and isnt a tomato can(nm tyson is a tomato can) ;-) or that jagoff audley harrison

Shannon Briggs professional golfer shes kinda hot..

the truth to that is thats probably the reason he started boxing. picture it: when he was a young kid, people picked on him hardcore about the name, and in turn, it instilled something in him,a burning desire to prove to people that he's hard, and not a bitch, like the kids that used to clown him thought he was. That's exactly what I meant

I think it's a bad idea. For a boxer to be named Shannon. the truth to that is thats probably the reason he started boxing. picture it: when he was a young kid, people picked on him hardcore about the name, and in turn, it instilled something in him,a burning desire to prove to people that he's hard, and not a bitch, like the kids that used to clown him thought he was.

C'mon man relax, I wasn't trying to offend anyone.

Yeah, like we needed another one of those dime-a-dozen comebacks by mediocre, past-their-prime boxers. :sleeping: I think the reason why he's boxing again is that he needs dough very badly because was sued for $2million (and lost) for breaking the eye socket of a football player in a club brawl. I want to meet his hairdresser though.

Shannon claims when he was a kid people called him Ali, he said it was because they didn't even know his real name. Maybe they wished he wasn't named Shannon either.

Heart and motivation are two very seperate things my friend. Riddick Bowe is a great example of another fighter who had a lot of heart but little motivation or dedication to the sport. He came into those fights against Golota drained (from losing all the weight he put on) and unprepared and fought like shit but he never gave up. Briggs is like that as well. He is a courageous guy once he's in the ring, but he has a hard time in the gym preparing himself to fight at his best. You can make an arguement for Rahman being the same kind of fighter as well. Inconsistent, no motivation to stay in shape, but when he's in there he isn't gonna quit.

Shannon Briggs is one of the biggest frauds in the history of boxing. He got a lot of hype because he was a New Yorker....& because he had the dreads. He never won a fight of significance....& I'll never forget his first loss... He headlined HBO's "Night Of Young Heavyweights" (Tua KO'd Ruiz, Golota KO'd D. Nicholson) & took on the undersized Darroll Wilson. After storming Wilson & having him hurt, Briggs ran into a hurdle......Wilson stayed up & shoved a jab in Shannon's face. You could just see all the fire put out in Briggs, right then & there. After that, he was schooled by Wilson, before getting knocked silly. He then blamed it all on ASTHMA. Teddy Atlas was his trainer, & was so embarrassed by Briggs & his excuses that he went & quit. What's this fraud coming back to , anyway ? ....Yeah, I remember that. I was actually pretty disapointed in him. I thought he was gonna be a bad ass and someone to really watch and you could just see he didn't have the confidence when he got tested. It sucked!!! He did give a good accounting against Lewis though and re-earned a little respect from me anyway.

By the way, Briggs does not have any speed or power going into the middle rounds. If hasn't got a guy figured-out by then, it's all over. Briggs also drops his hands alot and doen't coverup after being tagged. he's very very hittable when he gets smacked good by a guy who can follow-up.