How good was Fabrice Tiozzo?

[JonesJrMayweather]

Only seen his fights with virgil..ironically their only ones he's he's ever lost...So does anyone have any solid break down of him as a fighter?

[CutMeMick]

He was a good fighter more then anything he had good power. He was too hot & cold for me at times. One day he looked stellar then the next fight he would look like crap.

I still have NO fucken idea how he made it out of round 8 (I think it was) vs. Branco. He took some solid shots and Branco couldn't get him out of there. That was a really good fight Tiozzo won by Decision that fight but it was close and Tiozzo knocked Branco down but the replay showed Branco slipped.

I remember the most vs. Dariusz what a brutal fight that was...

All in all he was a good fighter. He was the better of the 3 Tiozzo bros.

[TigerFan]

Don't know too much about him other than he beat my boy Dariusz. I've only seen two of his fights and they were his last two fights against Dariusz & Saenz so I haven't seen prime Tiozzo. He does own some solid wins over guys like Eric Lucas and Mike McCallum.


I found a highlight of the Tiozzo-vs-Branco match CMM mentioned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx6pTSuVgZk

[SEB]

Fabrice was a good boxer, talented and with some real power...

but he always had that problem with the weight...I mean, a real one :-). Fabrice has never been so good that at 175 lbs. eventually getting to the 190lbs division (cruiser) because he suffered too much. even there he was still suffering to make that weight !!

He simply ballooned too much between fights, and we all know how dangerous it is for a boxer on a long term.

I remember his brother (Christophe, former WBA super middleweight champ) that while he was fighting at 175lbs and was getting around with 200-210 lbs....but while the 190 lbs period he was around 220-230 lbs. Losing 40lbs is never easy for a fight, and the more you do the more you weaken your body!

but when focused and wanted to win, he was hard to beat or you needed to be a top fighter (IMO Jones and Calzzaghe would have beat him, no question). he just got surprised on his 2nd fight with Virgill, he had no luck, it's simply boxing. on their first fight, no surprise, Virgill was more experienced.

When he came back fighting at 175lbs, it was directly against the champ Branco (other champ like ROy jones just got crashed on this exercice) :-)

HE just butchered Dariuz M. but I have to admit that Tiozzo was fighting for his legacy and wanted to prove to the french specialists he deserved to be recognised as a true champ but on the other hand, Dariuz was not able to push the engine anymore and I think he wasn't that motivated...

Overall Tiozzo was a good boxer, good power, chin and speed, but his weight problem killed his best years I think.

Fabrice has been

WBC light heavy champ
WBA Cruiser Champ
and then WBA light heavy champ on the late.

not bad :-)

[Master]

Actually had not realised there were 3 brothers, they were tough as nails but not brilliant fighters.

[Britkid]

I remember Christophe getting all the hype, he was supposed to be the next Carpentier...

Fabrice always struck me as an honest pro, and although he seemingly did not always show it, I think he did have an excellent work effic to make up for his lack of natural ability. Although beating a still lively McCallum (all be it in France) was a fair result.

He easily beat a couple of decent domestic operators in Core and Magee to show us Brits he may be a bit lively.

I remember the first Hill fight, and I was a little disappointed in Fabrice, he let the occasion get to him, and lost more convincingly than the split decision suggests.

Like the McCallum fight, the Michalczewski win looks real good, and to be fair, I picked Michalczewski, but hindsight hurts Fabrice, and he will get only minimal credit for the win, as history is written.