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Who are your favorite prospects?
Criteria:
1) No more than 20 fights
2) Can not have fought for a WBA, WBO, WBC or IBF title
3) Minor titles (i.e. EBU, NABA, Commonwealth, International) are ok
My picks are the following
1) Abner Mares
2) Ronald Hearns
3) Andre Ward
4) Andre Dirrell
5) Amir Khan
Y. Gamboa stands out.....Might be eary but Looks top notch promising
Amir Khan
Tony Bellew
1. AJ Banal
2. Odlanier Solis
My clear favorites are these in no order. No telling who's going to be better then who but these are the front runners. Those are the most sure things imo except for Williams but Williams is going to be good. Banal, Ward and Mares are all going to be titlist within the next 2 years imo.
Aaron Williams
Andre Ward
Abner Mares
Yuriorkis Gamboa
AJ Banal
Andre Berto
The Peterson Brothers, especially Lamont but both are very good.
Then there are a whole host of others who have accomplished different levels of success early on.
Peter Quillin
Joe Greene (who we will see tonight on WNF)
Devon Alexander
Chazz Witherspoon (though he needs to pick it up)
Tovaris Cloud
Matt Goddfrey
Yoan Pablo Hernandez
Alfredo Angulo
Victor Ortiz
Antonio Johnson (if he is still fighting, he went back to Minnesota from CA and it was a bad move imo)
Then there are guys who have just turned pro recently but I think they have potential to be very good.
Rico Ramos
Mike Dallas Jr.
Mark Davis Jr.
Qaid Muhammad
Kevin Buckley
Beibut Shumenov (Who was a very good amateur but disappointed in Athens. He might just get a title shot before any of the people on these bottom two lists and he's only 5 fights in.)
There are loads others I have written down elsewhere in a notebook but these are the ones off my head after thinking a bit.
Andre Berto !!
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Originally Posted by Mar
What did you think of Ward when you saw him? I was at that card too.
AJ Banal
I sharing the Spicoli opinion , yea Gamboa , he is close to get World Title fight........that kid is good....:cool:
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Originally Posted by amat
Badass list..
Couple of mine and my favourites of yours will do me nice
Gamboa - This guy is wicked.. But nosirr not near the title fight.. Let him learn his trade someore and be the big names' sparring partner earn some good cash and perfect his game.(Just that someone mentioned that)
Berto
Khan
Kid Chocolate
Danny Jacobs
Mean Joe Greene
Mares
Jorge Terron
Rashiem Jefferson
Y. Gamboa and Vernon Paris.
Man wish i would've known...me and the wife had a good time. What could anyone think, for what ward was against and his limited comp before that i'd have to say he looked great, too early to tell about the future though. Nice to see a boxer from the bay doin it somewhat big lol !!Quote:
Originally Posted by amatQuote:
Originally Posted by Mar
What did you think of Ward when you saw him? I was at that card too.
My favorite prospects in no particular order:
Andre Ward
Alfredo Angulo
Jhonathan Banks
Roman Gonzalez
AJ Banal
Aaron Williams
Odlanier Solis
Alexander Povetkin
Yuriokis Gamboa
Juan Carlos Burgos
Yohnny Perez
Joe Greene
Paul McCloskey
James Moore
Ronald Hearns
Abner Mares
Vernon Paris
Amir Khan
There were some more but they were just a bit over 20 wins. Good thread.
Theres a few guys i like out there that i didnt put down cos theres a fine line where a fighter is still a prospect or has had enough losses or fights to consider them otherwise..
But.. they are still up and coming..
Bernabe Concepcion... I consider him as the top 122 lbs. prospect... Even higher than Juan Manuel Lopez...
Concepcion will be fighting this weekend's "Latin Fury" card in Mexico...
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Shittt..Of course.. How'd i leave out Juanma
I would have had him there too, but he has 21 wins, so he didn't qualify.
Yeah and he has a title shot coming up so I would take the prospect label off him at this point otherwise he would be at the top of my list.
I like pretty much like all the fighters that have been posted so far, but I would like to add James Kirkland to the bunch. He needs to work on this defense a bit, but he is all action, and comes out guns blazin right from the start.
For sure Kirkland is a hot prospect, but he has 21 wins as well, but he would be there otherwise. This fight with Albert will tell alot about him, albert is a very good boxer, Olympic pedigree, and good quality wins.
a fairly inknown prospect is ALI SHAH HE IS RATED AS THE BEST OF THE BEST TO COME OUT OF THE WORLD FAMOUS INGLE CAMP CHECK HIM OUT ON THESE LINKS HE IS SAID TO BE THE NEXT COMING OF ALI AND NASEEM HAMED PLZ READ ARTICLES AND LEAVE COMMENTS
Ali's a Shah-fire hit on his professional debut - The Star
Shah in the mould to be Brendan's next world beater - The Star
Ali Is The Real Deal Says Legend Ingle (from Lancashire Telegraph)
Yeah, but 16 of those 21 wins ended in 3 rounds or less, so not much pro time in those 21 fights, so I'll still consider him a prospect. ;) ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by I'm a tool
Omar Chavez
David Lemieux
Hmm..... rep for that I've never heard of either of those guys out of all the names listed :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5jueTM7MiQQuote:
Originally Posted by I'm a tool
Listen to his punches land
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9ARtegojw
Check out this guy Rau'Shee Warren on the US Olympic team.
Omar Chavez is Julio Cesar Chavez youngest son. Lemieux is a 19 year old Canadian prospect. They both have less than 10 fights. But I like what i see so farQuote:
Originally Posted by I'm a tool
Well since amat listed EVERY possible prospect I'll just type here:
See amats list. ;D J/K amat....
Heres some of my fav:
Tavoris Cloud - This dudes the truth.
'Vicious' Ortiz
'Chocolatito' Gonzalez
'Terremoto' Chavez
'La Sombra' Solis
'Kid Chocolate' Quillin
'Nightmare' Martirosyan
'Machine Gun' Jones
'Canelo' Alvarez
Devon 'Alexander The Great'
Khan
Sammy DiPace
'The Truth' Teron
Antonio De Marco
Jorge Paez Jr.
Yohnny Perez
Michael Marrone
Grzegorz Proksa
Brandon Rios
No kidding you had to go all the way down to Michael Marrone :-XQuote:
Originally Posted by CutMeMick
You had some I forgot about like Vanes though I'm not as sold on him as most.
He's a Duva product. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by amatNo kidding you had to go all the way down to Michael Marrone :-XQuote:
Originally Posted by CutMeMick
You had some I forgot about like Vanes though I'm not as sold on him as most.
DiPace hasn't fought on TV yet has he? I really want to see him. He got a tough break in not being at the Olympics he just happened to be stuck behind a strong division with Rios and Russel. I want to see him soon.
His debut was on Telefutura.Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
I actually put this one up.
Sammy DiPace vs. Benito Juarez - Boxrec Boxing Encyclopaedia
Damn I wish I could have caught that thanks for the description.
Abner Mares..........reminds me of a very young Cotto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like Chazz Witherspoon the best I don't believe he has 20 fights yet.If only he had some fire to that ass he could be knocking guys .
My 3 current favorites are Roman Gonzalez, Yuriokis Gamboa & Giovanni Segura.
I like Eric Fields also even though he just lost to Afolabi.For XYZ trinkets.Anyway I'm still with big guy
Charlie Zeneloff
I heard he's a monster.
;D;D
This kid is not anywhere close to being a prospect but he's one to keep an eye on... I've seen a lot of fighters in both the amatuers and in pro debuts...
This kid is one of the the best. I don't know if I've ever seen such skill right out of the gate. The guy he was fighting against was for the most part very unskilled and fairly slow but was game.
Qi'ad had him on the deck a bunch of times. The most impressive thing about him was his speed and his reflexes... Just totally on point. He toyed with his opponant the whole way through... Not being cocky(although I'm sure he is) but more of traeting it as a sparing session trying to gain experience.
He will be a good fighter and in 10 to 15 bouts I'm sure you'll hear his name:cool:
Qa'id Muhammad
Here is what I have said about him in the past...
http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...g-special.html