RIP Aaron Pryor

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If I’m judging him as a boxer then for a guy with zero defence who led with his chin, he got away with murder.

He was super sloppy and had as porous defense as I've ever seen. I thought the best thing Pryor brought to ring was adrenalin and he was also very fortunate to meet Arguello. An Arguello who was at the end of his career and at his 4th weight class. But even then Arguello beat Aaron like a mofo piñata, until ...... Atomic coke monster power kicked in, and...... Wait

Wait

The Hawk taught Alexis, that he was just a squirrel trying to get a nut, & the hawk decides what is or is not allowed in his domain.

He blew his career on stimulants. The same stimulants that also gave him his greatest win against Arguello.

If it wasn’t for Sugar Ray Leonard’s detached retina then SRL would have destroyed Pryor. So I don’t go in for the theory of him being avoided. SRL wasnt afraid of crazy duran, monster hearns, or the powerful hagler, yet he was afraid of the smaller Pryor ?

His Tysonesque predatory style, was a whirl wind, non stop puncher but not with KO power. Fact is - He did not come close to fighting anyone that we could use as a measuring stick as to how good he really was.

But I’m judging him strictly as a fighter. As a man; condolences to his family and friends
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His book:

Aaron Pryor

Is full of really interesting stuff.

• Sly being his promoter and also sleeping with his ex-wife.
• Getting drunk with Leon Spinks and wandering the streets of Soviet Russia.
• Some traumatic stuff as a child with a neighbour.
• His new wife saving his life and getting him off drugs.
• His drug addiction and shadow boxing in the street for drug money.

RIP champ.