Um because he's a pompous asshole....that good enough? In this case he's also terribly wrong.
Mason? I think sparking out Kevin Johnson is a pretty decent win for a fighter's 13th bout. Gary Mason....perhaps a great British boxer, but on the world stage he wasn't anything special.
The ONLY people I've heard of on Mason's entire record are: Lennox, Biggs, Bigfoot Martin, Quick Tillis, Donnie Long, David Jaco, Alfonso Ratliff, and Sammy Scaff.....of those fighters only Lennox and Tillis had what I would call successful professional careers and this was in an era where there WERE big fights to be had but apparently Mason didn't want any of those (gee I wonder why). The rest of those opponents I heard of were just that OPPONENTS, they were guys people fought to get rounds in or get experience, they weren't title holders, title contenders, or even acid tests, they were certified Tomato Cans.
I'll tell you this right now, 'Bonecrusher' Smith would have blasted Mason out of the water, 'Razor' Rudduck would have smashed him, Morrison would have schooled him, Ray Mercer, Old Foreman, Oliver McCall, Bruce Seldon, Larry Donald, fucking Pierre Coetzer would have beaten him IMO!
Gary Mason (God rest his soul) never fought anyone with a pulse until Lennox came along. Tillis at the time they fought already had 14 losses on his record and just got done getting stopped by Holyfield.
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Yeah in their primes they were good fighters....not perfect, but good. They were just as inconsistent as the guys floating around now who can't grab hold of the belts. More exciting to watch maybe (probably because they were more apt to fight each other), but also with that excitement they were more apt to lose when they shouldn't have....like Mercer to old Holmes or Morrison to Hipp or Ruddock to Jaco and so on
Last edited by El Kabong; 12-08-2016 at 06:53 AM.
I did not rate Mason at all but Lennox taking him on at the stage he was and the "record" Gary had built was a big test and jump in class for Lennox.
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Ha ha, a thread about Joshua and the long long line of illustrious British heavyweights 😜. It's probably true to say they - at the moment he turned pro - AJ was already at least the second best heavyweight in British heavyweight history!
You could even argue he is the best British produced heavyweight of all time, as Lennox learnt to box and was really produced by the Canadian amateur system and then truly created by Manny Steward.
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