Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo View Post
I've heard this debate a few times in seperate threads so thought I'd make a thread for it. How highly do you rate him>? Where the top guys really all ducking him? How do you think he would have fared against them?

Pryor is a funny subject...Not just on forums but in the boxing world in general.....It is almost like his name is taboo....Of course on the forums you will always have the idiot who has only one thing to say about him and that is the old...Gimme the Black Bottle...But unfairly at times that moment seems to be all some people know of him....I always sum Aaron up like this...

He wasn't the greatest boxer you will ever see but his boxing ability was underestimated....

He hit you until either you went down or he could not hit any more....

If you went toe to toe with a prime Pryor you were an idiot looking to get your ass kicked....If you tried to oubox him you found out even though you were a better boxer then he was it seemed to do you little good.....

He was a 140lb beast that could not be caged.....When people talk about guys like Tyson and Foreman and how they scared their opponents before the bell even rang or how when they attacked they were vicious....IMO those guys if you measured them up pound for pound against Pryor held nothing over the Hawk in terms of intimidation or in terms of brutality.....

I am not the biggest Pryor fan there ever was but I have always admired the level of his game was in the ring.....You had reason to be scared if there was ever a fighter to be scared of....

Did guys duck Pryor....Hard to say but they did not look to fight him that much is for sure