would you have like to have seen leonard/pryor

[GeneralZod]

So does Pryor have any good or decent wins? What are his best wins? I have Joe Louis, Gatti, some other guys with more fights and discs to go through before I get to his set.

I don't think it really counts but he beat Hitman Hearns amateurly.
He also knocked out Cervantes which is probably one of the better/bigger contenders he's beaten.

[Scott9945]

So does Pryor have any good or decent wins? What are his best wins? I have Joe Louis, Gatti, some other guys with more fights and discs to go through before I get to his set.

If I could pick two Pryor fights to recommend, it would be the Cervantes and the first Arguello fights. I remember watching both of them live and they were very exciting. While he had flaws, Pryor's energy was off the charts.

[Dynamite76]

I watched all of Pryor's fights but 1 in person dozens of his amateur fights, in the amat, he was physically more mature at that age than most his age, & he showed it in dominating early, in the Pros, he was susceptible to knockdowns & guys with even decent power, so his camp avoided Heavy punchers, which he never fought at JWW, at least a real full fledged JWW with power, they knew he most likely would be knocked out, I rate him top 5 or 2 or 22 JWW all time & he may have made the top 20 or 25 at LW all time, but again, big punching all time greats, most likely would have knocked him out.

Do you feel that Bruce Curry could have beaten Aaron?

[Dynamite76]

in that sparring session pryor did nothing. i was there. the only fighter to give ray fits believe it or not was howard davis who was so much quicker and raymond would just try to load up. one thing ray knew was even though he had lots of amateur ko's the one thing pryor brought to the table was he was not scared of him or hearns or any of the top fighters in the juniors, nationals, golden gloves etc. still ray would beat him easily because pryor was just to brave and the power of ray would be to much.

I always heard that Howard gave Ray problems.Was this most of their sparring sessions?

[Rspen46]

Cervantes was well past his Prime when Pryor beat him & known not for great power & he still put Pryor down, in his Prime he beats Pryor, & watch Hearns vs. Pryor in the amatuers on Youtube, you can see that Pryor is nearly Physically fully mature at that time & Hearns is clearly several years away from his Physical Prime, in the Pros, Hearns does to Pryor what he did to Duran.

[Rspen46]

Pryor did not go through the best in his division, yes he beat Cervantes but at the end of his Career & still got knocked down, Mamby was the number 1 contender & Pryor never fought him, instead he takes a bigger money fight against a bigger name who was moving up to his 4th division in Arguello who was not the fighter he was at the lower weights, Pryor did fight D. Johnson rated in the top 5, but Johnson was no where near a good fight, just average & he also put Pryor down, so no Pryor did not go through the best in his division, he fought 95% bums.