Vinny Pazienza

[BattlingNelson]

I've heard that Pazienza looked great against Gilbert Dele (when he won the LMW title) although I've never actually seen the fight. I believe it was John Scully who said it.

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3685294

This thread is a bit of a joke since some poster tried to argue that Roberto Duran was a "bum" for losing to "Vinny f***in' Pazienza".

Thanks for saying. After I voted in the poll I saw that you had him as a top 25 ATG.

I thought you had either a very soft spot for the pazman or gone completely bonkus from your failed attempts at educating fulcrum.

[TheGreatA]

Thanks for saying. After I voted in the poll I saw that you had him as a top 25 ATG.

I thought you had either a very soft spot for the pazman or gone completely bonkus from your failed attempts at educating fulcrum.

I wasn't really arguing seriously with fulcrum. I doubt he takes what he says about Vitali as seriously as Wlad Owns does for example. Just thought I would point out a couple of things, such as Shavers having a greater KO% than Vitali at his peak.

I'll give Pazienza credit. He was a warrior and he could make other boxers look like a million bucks with his face first style (for example Roger Mayweather, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones).

From what I've heard he had some skill of his own too but abandoned it for a more crowd-pleasing style.

[BattlingNelson]

I wasn't really arguing seriously with fulcrum. I doubt he takes what he says about Vitali as seriously as Wlad Owns does for example. Just thought I would point out a couple of things, such as Shavers having a greater KO% than Vitali at his peak.

I'll give Pazienza credit. He was a warrior and he could make other boxers look like a million bucks with his face first style (for example Roger Mayweather, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones).

From what I've heard he had some skill of his own too but abandoned it for a more crowd-pleasing style.

Well I remember the Haugen fights best. The first 2 were instant classics. The third was a bore with paz on his bike.

Anyway his face tells the story of that crowdpleasing style. It looks like an old worn-out football.

[TheGreatA]

Well I remember the Haugen fights best. The first 2 were instant classics. The third was a bore with paz on his bike.

Anyway his face tells the story of that crowdpleasing style. It looks like an old worn-out football.

Unfortunately I remember his losses more so than his wins.

Roger Mayweather looked better than Floyd Mayweather Jr ever did the night he fought Pazienza.

Roy Jones' win over Pazienza is said to have been his best ever performance but what can you except when the number 1 p4p ranked super middleweight fights a former lightweight title holder...

Pazienza got the fight for beating a near 45 year old Duran (and was knocked down in the process). Duran said he would be insane to fight Roy Jones.

[QUISQUEYA]

Anybody who says that Vinnie Pazienza is a top 50 fighter needs to leave this site. And have his head examined.
Effin' top 50...sheesh.

[Pharoahe]

Anybody who says that Vinnie Pazienza is a top 50 fighter needs to leave this site. And have his head examined.
Effin' top 50...sheesh.

I agree. I don't think that you can really come up with 40 other boxers that would keep the Pazmanian Devil out of the Top 10.


But really, I always like the Pazman, although I only saw the Haugen fights, and a few others that I can't really remember when I was younger.

[AztecWanker]

Damn, Manchine. You took kev's thread pretty hard (no ****)

[Terry A]

Well I remember the Haugen fights best. The first 2 were instant classics. The third was a bore with paz on his bike.

Anyway his face tells the story of that crowdpleasing style. It looks like an old worn-out football.

Bat,
The interviews leading up to those 3 fights had some of the funniest lines and cuts I ever heard from fighters. They sounded like WWF (WWE) wrestlers building the gate, only they were serious!

Something else comes to mind when i think of their trilogy....the camera kept panning back inside some bar where Haugen's mom and sisters were smoking cigarettes and drinking bottles of beer. When the decion went against Haugen, all those women were booing, shooting the middle finger at the TV screen, yelling, etc. Not a real classy moment! Just as animated as Frank "The Animal" Fletcher's mom was back in the day on NBC Sport's world.

[TheGreatA]

Damn, Manchine. You took kev's thread pretty hard (no ****)

It's nothing I haven't heard a thousand times before on these forums.

I just found this very funny:

WHO HAS NOT BEATEN DURAN..THIS N!GGA LOST TO VINNY PAZIENZA.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Yes, I sparred with Vinny for many fights including the Dele fight and, YES, he definitely looked VERY good that night...it sucks that people only remember Paz as a face first type of guy because he boxed very well sometimes...the Dele fight was a very special display of boxing..I was there that night and the crowd was ELECTRIC...rarely do u see a crowd go crazy for a BOXING match but they did that night...