Kevin Iole: "Aaron Pryor would have beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr"

[PensionKiller]

every fighter that Floyd has faced has THROWN more punches than he has

and yet he is still 40-0

what were you saying about VOLUME?

Look at who he faced

[bojangles1987]

Arguello was ahead in the first fight until the bottle incident.
I hardly called that "destroyed"

On the official scorecards or yours was Arguello ahead? Because when I watch it I always have Pryor with a good 2 or 3 point cushion with Arguello having made a push at the time Pryor stopped him. I don't see how Arguello could be ahead.

[Calilloyd]

Arguello was ahead in the first fight until the bottle incident.
I hardly called that "destroyed"

I guess you missed the part when Arguello was on the canvas for minutes after the fight ended. You must have also missed the rematch. And Arguello was not ahead. But you're very good at making statements about things you know nothing about


At the first bell, Arguello hit Pryor with a straight right, and the two traded blows through a frenetic first three minutes. By the time the bell sounded again, they’d combined to throw 238 punches — many of them landing flush.

“It was like a miniature of the Thrilla of Manilla, it went one way, then the other way,” Arum recalled. Arguello landed a punch in the 13th round that seemed to stun Pryor, [B]and despite trailing on two of three scorecards, the charismatic Nicaraguan had things tilting in his direction.

Pryor had never before been this deep in a fight, and trainer Panama Lewis seemed to realize things were slipping away. HBO was televising the bout and its microphones caught Lewis telling cutman Artie Curley, “Give me the bottle, the one I mixed.” While it’s unclear what was in the special bottle — speculation has ranged from chocolate to ******* — it seemed to revive Pryor.

He landed at least 15 unanswered blows in the 14th before referee Stanley Christodoulou stopped it. Arguello collapsed to the canvas near the ropes, where he lay for several minutes.

“God knows what he gave Pryor to revive him,” Arum said.

Lewis and Pryor steadfastly denied the substance was anything illegal.

“I had, like, 30 knockouts before I fought Alexis, I don’t think I needed anything that particular night,” Pryor said. “I feel like my ability was doing my talking for me.”

The controversy resulted in a rematch, but the savage beating Arguello withstood stayed with him when they met the following year. Pryor dominated Arguello at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, stopping him in the 10th round.[/B]