Aaron Pryor

[wizard king]

So the other day I bought some Aaron Pryor fights, I'd already had the Arguello fights and saw the legendary nights ep HBO did but I wanted to see some of his title defences too. Man oh man. I got this one fight where he fights this Japanese dude Akio Kameda who at the time was 17-0 (14) and I think Pryor was 30-0 (28). Anyway the fight is ****ing INSANE. It's better than Hagler-Hearns. Total slugfest. Kameda drops Pryor with 3 straight punches in rd 1 as Pryor is coming out of throwing a big barrage with his chin in the air. Pryor gets up and fights on. Over the next 5 rounds he drops Kameda 4 or 5 times and the fight is called off in the 6. It's nonstop action and I'd recommend every1 to pick up this fight if they aint already cause no1 ever mentions it but it was a first class war with both trading power shots the whole fight.

Another fight I got was of Pryor destroying this Korean guy, I think his name is Kim. That one only lasted a couple of rounds, Pryor was chilling in that fight.



You gotta say Pryor would've been a problem for anyone in history at 140 lbs. Not off the basis of these fights, I know they weren't stellar opposition (though Kameda was very underrated, southpaw, strong punch, very physically strong) but his wins over Arguello proved his quality. The guy was a ****ing typhoon. Nonstop. Quick hands, very heavy-handed and he crunched lethal bodyshots in too. I can only imagine what wars we would get if u matched Pryor with other great 140 lb'ers like Tszyu, Chavez, Benitez etc

and pryor was a cheating peace of **** and who knows how many fights he cheated in so **** him. so his crediablity goes down the c****r

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His fight with Dejuan Johnson was very entertaining too.

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The Pryor of the early 80s versus the Chavez of the late 80s at 140 would've been an awesome fight.

[ИATAS]

agreed on all fronts.

Pryor beats anyone at 140, the man was an absolute beast.

[Kilrain]

The Pryor of the early 80s versus the Chavez of the late 80s at 140 would've been an awesome fight.

I think Pryor would have overwhelmed Chavez.

[oaklandstephen]

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/sports/watch/v273623ffkHySCZ

[miron_lang]

No disrespect to the GREAT Aaron Pryor but IMO. Sugar Ray Leonard fairly easily beats him at 147.

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No disrespect to the GREAT Aaron Pryor but IMO. Sugar Ray Leonard fairly easily beats him at 147.

I don't like Pryor's chances at 147. He was more of a 140 lb fighter, he was even ranked as the top 135 lb. contender during his reign at 140 and weighed like 137 for a fight shortly before winning the 140 lb. title.

[The Big Dunn]

You my friend don't know of what you speak of

respectfully, srl moved up to 147 in the olympics because pryor was giving him fits. SRL may have beat him but I think it wasn't worth the money.

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respectfully, srl moved up to 147 in the olympics because pryor was giving him fits.

Leonard didn't fight at 147 in the 1976 Olympics. He won a Gold at light welterweight, 140, which is the same division that he won national titles at in both 1974 and 1975. Pryor fought at 132 back then, that's where he beat Hearns as an amateur in 1976.

SRL may have beat him but I think it wasn't worth the money.

Pryor apparently didn't think so, because he was the one who turned down the fight.