Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
There's a big difference between prospect and contender. Not to mention prospect and former champion. Prospect and actual champion? I'm not even gonna bother with that one. Damn near all the ones mentioned don't even apply.

Joe Calzaghe-Jeff Lacy
Bernard Hopkins-Kelly Pavlik/Felix Trinidad
Michael Grant-Lennox Lewis
Ray Mercer-Jesse Ferguson/Larry Holmes
Jesse James Leija-Juan Lazcano
Reggie Johnson-William Guthrie
Carl Froch-Lucian Bute
Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye

Lacy, Bute, Haye and Trinidad where actual champions when they lost. Pavlik, Mercer and Guthrie were former champions. Lazcano (who didn't even lose) and Grant were contenders. None of them were close to being consider a young prospect.

Leija-Bojado. Guerrero-Brewer and Thompson-Haye apply. Those are good examples of prospect vs veteran. The rest are just moronic examples
Not when he lost to Thompson. Thompson had been around years and been dropped in nearly all his later fights, lost 6 times KO'd 5. He had just beaten Rothman but took an absolute hiding before stopping Rothman and he then retired. Haye was coming through and brought Thompson out of retirement to have his name on his record and the concesus was that Haye would rip right through him but after throwing everything at Thompson and failing even to drop him, he started getting tagged himself. He got dropped and was on shaky legs while Thompson wailed away and the ref had to jump in and save him at the same time Booth was throwing the towel in
Yeah there's a I reason wrote that in red