Aaron Pryor- Guy will alway have question mark on his career

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Pryor gets overrated quite a bit, honestly. He was a beast H2H at 140 but his resume really isn't that special when you consider his ability and how high he often gets ranked.

He also gets overrated by the "Legendary Nights Era" of boxing fans.

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then he should have gone up in weight if he believe he is monster.

at 147 what the hell even fight Hagler

To fight Hagler he'd have go to middleweight.

The welterweights had little motive and reason to fight him. Sure you can fight a lower division champion if you want, but you don't have an obligation to. A welterweight champ has an obligation to fight the best welterweights around.

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I remember reading that Pryor did call out Duran but Duran just kept quiet about the whole thing. I forgot where I read it, it was a while back.

The biography on Duran mentioned something about Pryor going up in weight to fight Duran, like 10 pounds or something, but negotiations fell through.

Pryor had managerial problems and by the time they were cleared up, the offer to fight Duran (who offered $200k more then Leonard did to Pryor) was off the table.

Duran no enthusiastic?!?!?! impossiable Duran never ducked anyone in his career.

maybe Leonard maybe Hearns against Pryor but he could landed a fight with Roberto Duran

Duran's team (Carlos Eleta) avoided certain matchups. Most likely not Duran himself. Ken Buchanan reflected afterwards on not getting a rematch and he put the blame on the management, saying Duran would fight anyone.

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Pryor gets overrated quite a bit, honestly. He was a beast H2H at 140 but his resume really isn't that special when you consider his ability and how high he often gets ranked.

He also gets overrated by the "Legendary Nights Era" of boxing fans.

I think SRL woulda put a whippin on the Hawk. Put Legendary nights plus boxrec students together, and there you have the unbeatable Aaron Pryor.

SRL woulda whupped him had he moved up, IMO.

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Crushed up Clanbuterol tablets.

As Resto stated, Lewis issues all of his fighters as a pep juice.



****ing cheat. That's totally unfair.

It's like giving your guy an athsma inhaler in the corner.



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Duran skipped the 140 lb division rather than fight him.

You're not implying what I think you are with this ridiculous comment, are you?

[MonsieurGeorges]

that's why he was the only one with the bigger cojones to take the fight with pryor, when nobody else in the lower division had any.

pryor's style of fighting scared the **** out of alot of people.

after winning the title from antonio cervantes (ko'ed in 2 rounds) he was facing nothing but mandatories, all the big names in boxing didn't even bother to call him for a match.

once you knocked aaron pryor down you're done, he gets wild and can easily knock you out with raging combinations.

that amateur fight with hearns is a ****in scrap

[them_apples]

There is a lot of misinformation in this post. Forst of all, Arguello started as a featherweight, but soon outgrew that division and became an outstanding 130 and 135 lb champion. Calling AA a featherweight is like calling De La Hoya or Mosley a lightweight.

Second, while there is no doubt that Pryor abused recreational drugs (*******), I've never heard him be accused of using steroids. The drugs he used hurt his career rather than help it.

Finally, saying that Pryor would have fought Duran, Leonard, etc. if he could is ridiculous. None of them would give Pryor a shot. He called out Leonard publicly and was ignored. Duran skipped the 140 lb division rather than fight him.

If you had seen Pryor fight at his prime you'd be singing a different tune. He was very fast, relentless, and had a great killer instinct. Very few 140 lb fighters in history would have even had a chance against him.

being yoked on cocain is almost more of an advantage than steriods. Doesn't matter how many roids you take, you still have to make weight.

with coke he could keep going every round like it was round 1.

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I could see him beating Duran maybe Hearns again
Wilfred Benítez would be a war and Leonard might have beat him but Ray didn't seem to want any part of him so maybe Ray wasn't sure of himself.

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being yoked on cocain is almost more of an advantage than steriods. Doesn't matter how many roids you take, you still have to make weight.

with coke he could keep going every round like it was round 1.

Only if you take it before the fight and coke also has a BIG drop off when you come down + the high doesn't last very long so it's not very likely to help at all.