Comments Thread For: Antonio Tarver: “I Never Got the Fights I Deserved!”

[Ray*]

Probably needs to pay back Al Haymon bail monies, this is what happens when instead of looking after your money you rather gamble, smoke it or even use it on **** stars. Boxers never learn.

[g.goodman25]

Need the money

He just looking for a big payday to pay back what that man paid to get him out of jail.Retire please

[Nay_Sayer]

A rematch with BHOP can be good however.

Tarver ain't making 175 ever again.

[JFalu]

Antonio Tarver doesn’t believe he’s gotten a fair shake in boxing. “My whole thing is this: the game has never really been fair to me,” said Tarver. “I’ve never gotten the fights I wanted.”

Tarver is a former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion. He started his professional boxing career in 1997 and has captured various titles along the way. Moreover, he defeated the preeminent fighter of his era, Roy Jones, Jr., two of the three times they fought, including once by knockout in the second round. [Click Here To Read More]

Jail and failed drug tests denied him more opportunities.

[TOBYLEE1]

Tarver got his shots at Jones and Hopkins. He lost whatever momentum he had when he fought Johnson and had to rematch him. He looked horrible against Hopkins and lost twice against Dawson.

It might have been match ups he wanted to benefit his pocket but he wasn't avoided, he made no financial sense

[cupocity303]

This is exactly why I LOL at Calzaghe fans who brag about the Jones win. Jones had been washed up for four years and hadn't beaten anybody relevant at all since being KO'd by Johnson. Yet Calzaghe cherry picks him and then complains about PPV buys and call boxing a dying sport LOL What a hypocrite. It's fights like that which are why boxing becomes more and more of a joke when fighters duck for a decade like Calzaghe and then cherry picks.

Hell, Calzaghe should of fought Tarver or Dawson who where the next best in the division. Hell even a Hopkins rematch would of been better because Hopkins got shafted.

I like Tarver and hope he can find some success even though I think he'd match up horribly with Wlad who would have no problem jab and clinch ****'in him to death. If he could get a good win at HW first, he'd be a good option for Wilder has he's durable and has skills with some pop.

Correction, he would flat out punish Tarver round after round and KO him anywhere from 5 to 9th round. Lets not caricature Wlad's abilities and reduce them down to "Jab and clinch". Tarver would get sparked as his slap-punching wouldn't put a dent at a higher weight against a 250lb fighter. Nevermind that he won't hardly land any of the slap-punches.

[PunchyPotorff]

Here we go again, the biggest head in boxing... even bigger than Floydie and Bonehead's swollen egos.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Tarver fought all the top light heavys and scored big money fights with jones and Hopkins..


Maybe if he didn't trick off the first glen johnson fight or got turned into a novice sparring partner vs Hopkins, he would have gotten bigger fights but damn, the dude had fights with:

Jones 3 times
Johnson 2
Griffith
Harding 2 times
Woods
Dawson 2 times
Green


Tarver got plenty of fights

[ßringer]

Dude got not one, not two, but three separate cracks at Roy Jones Jr. - A guy who is generally considered one of the greatest to ever do it by anybody who follows the sport.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Tarver has a bad case of vaginitis.

[Derranged]

This is exactly why I LOL at Calzaghe fans who brag about the Jones win. Jones had been washed up for four years and hadn't beaten anybody relevant at all since being KO'd by Johnson. Yet Calzaghe cherry picks him and then complains about PPV buys and call boxing a dying sport LOL What a hypocrite. It's fights like that which are why boxing becomes more and more of a joke when fighters duck for a decade like Calzaghe and then cherry picks.

Hell, Calzaghe should of fought Tarver or Dawson who where the next best in the division. Hell even a Hopkins rematch would of been better because Hopkins got shafted.

I like Tarver and hope he can find some success even though I think he'd match up horribly with Wlad who would have no problem jab and clinch ****'in him to death. If he could get a good win at HW first, he'd be a good option for Wilder has he's durable and has skills with some pop.

Wlad would knock Old Crackie McGee the fuck out.