Anyone still awake?

Nightshift tonight, staking out my new mark, anyhoo just wanted to talk boxing have a few questions...

1) Ricardo "El Finito" Lopez? How come a man with such a record is a mystery to many. I typed in Ricardo Lopez on google and got someones facebook page. Not the same guy. Obviously this guy could bang and had an un beaten record with only 1 draw yet I am just finding out who he is.

2) Would any heavyweight in the history of the sport beat The Ali that destroyed Williams?

3) Could boxing learn something from WWE. i mean like those overly dramatic interviews before fights, crazy pre planned and FILMED story lines leading up to a fight, retirement matches for fighters who just wont quit boxing (Holy,Jones jnr) but everything that happens in the ring is 100% REAL.

Just random questions.

1) Im probably as guilty as anyone for not really following Lopez when he was active. But I have always struggled to get into those really low weights for the most part. I just think the quality down there is awfully diluted. Not a whole lot of people can make these really low weights to begin with, but then you have about 4 weight classes separated by a handful lbs and seldom do the best take on the best with most of the top asian guys down there staying domestic. It all adds up to questionable quality overall I think. Lopez was probably the exception to the rule but still struggle to really get a measure of the calibre of opposition he was facing much like the more recent Wonjonkam.

2) Hard to say. I wouldnt bet on it. Maybe Joe Louis at his punch perfect best or the mythical Prime Mike Tyson?

3) Haye v Audley was supposed to be a loser retires from boxing match wasnt it? Not to mention the world tag team champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko!

I am actually asleep Onetwo, but great thread title, think I'll borrow it for the time I post a write-up of the next Wladimir contest

I just plant seeds mate.

Ricardo was smaller than small so no press coverage.

The Tyson who beat Spinks or Thomas would have given Ali fits.

Chisora Haye?

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Ricardo sold out arenas.

The Tyson you mention did nothing in those 2 fights to suggest he would pose a threat to the ultra quick Ali back then.

Chisora v Haye is very close.

ONETWOFOREVER wrote:Ricardo sold out arenas.

The Tyson you mention did nothing in those 2 fights to suggest he would pose a threat to the ultra quick Ali back then.

Chisora v Haye is very close.

He was a King undercard fighter.

Tyson 86-90 would have given any HW in history a nightmare. Ali would have beaten him though, but Mike would have kept it interesting.