Bigger Myth??? Leonard Ducked Pryor Or Chavez Ended Taylors Career

Very Simply put, Aaron Pryor was not a force til Leonard retired with a detached Retina. Leonard retired in 82' before Pryor became a star by beating Alexis Arguello. By the time Leonard returned to fight Hagler, Pryor's run was already over. I do think the loss to Chavez hurt Taylor, but Taylor looked very good beating Aaron Davis for the WBA 147 belt after that. It probably did Taylor more harm moving up to face Terry Norris because after that he was pretty much through. He dropped back down to 147 and was knocked out by C. Espana in his next fight.

Taylor would have ended up being a ATG had he not ran into Chavez IMO Who was he going too beat that would make him an ATG ?.

Taylor would have ended up being a ATG had he not ran into Chavez IMO Doubt it, we all so what Pernell did with Chavez. Medrick just wasn't slick enough, and liked to bang too much for a guy without much pop, it was going to catch up with him sooner or later.

what about McCallum?

Taylor was never that good. If he was boxing today people would put him in the same category as Khan and Judah etc. Athletic and fast but not a great fighter.

Leonard did NOT duck Pryor. He offered him a career high payday. I always hear Leonard was ducking Hagler too, no way. That's like saying Floyd is ducking Sergio, who's 2 weight classes bigger in size of the fighters themselves.

taylor being ruined by chavez is not a myth, he was never the same after that fight, probably more mentally than physically atleast initially. As for his brain damage that is probably more from sparring sessions than just a single pro fight, chavez or not. But I think the experience of giving everything only to be stopped like that at the end messed him up mentally. Leonard ducking pryor is a joke. Leonard fought how many guys who were bigger and better than pryor? thats what I thought. Pryor couldnt be bothered to move his ass up to 147 and make a statement. His big win was over a former 126 guy where he had to take some kind of strange substance to win on top of that. Guy is overrated and didnt challenge himself.

Okies. Now that I've got some asperin in me..... Leonard offered Pryor what would have been a career high payday: PRYOR turned it down. Moreover Pryor hadn't down anything at that weight to represent any real threat to Leonard. Taylor won the WBA Welterweight title 10 months after the Chavez fight and made three successful defenses before dropping belt via brutal beating to Terry Norris. So clearly his career wasn't "ruined" by Chavez.....though an argument COULD be made that his career was ruined by Terrible Terry. Poet That I agree with....

I can see Mosley beating Malignaggi for a world title, that wouldn't mean he wasn't shot to pieces Aaron Davis>Paulie Malignaggi Mark Breland>Vyacheslav Senchenko

I can see Mosley beating Malignaggi for a world title, that wouldn't mean he wasn't shot to pieces

Legendary Nights strikes again :rolleyes9: Poet Come on Poet.... I know you got more input then that.... I was hoping some of the OT's showed up to balance this thread out if/when it gets out of control

no myth http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs7/2596157_o.gif Chavez ended his career.... no myth Taylor did go on to win a title after the first fight....

Chavez ended his career.... no myth

no myth http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs7/2596157_o.gif