Who remembers the first Arguello-Pryor fight?

[AtlSteel]

Some other thread got me thinking about how boxing/MMA is different now, and for some reason I thought back to this fight. I hated that fight. I hated Pryor for mauling Arguello, but that was how they fought back then. They boxed, but it was a fight, not a boxing match. Hagler-Hearns, Hagler-Leonard, Duran-Barkley, the light heavyweights - Eddie Gregory, Johnson, Galindez, Spinx. All fights. Not boxing matches. Miss that. In boxing and MMA.

 

[RawHawg]

Some other thread got me thinking about how boxing/MMA is different now, and for some reason I thought back to this fight. I hated that fight. I hated Pryor for mauling Arguello, but that was how they fought back then. They boxed, but it was a fight, not a boxing match. Hagler-Hearns, Hagler-Leonard, Duran-Barkley, the light heavyweights - Eddie Gregory, Johnson, Galindez, Spinx. All fights. Not boxing matches. Miss that. In boxing and MMA.

Pryor was awesome. He used to point his glove at his opponent before the fight like he was shooting a gun, and as soon as the fight started ,run at them and go nuts. They were both amazing.

 

[Sharkey]

Sounds like you have a selective memory since some of those guys you mentioned were involved in fights that lacked much in the way action themselves; Arguello-Fernandez rematch, Spinks-Braxton, Hagler-Duran, etc. Off the top. Those took place within months of that Pryor-Arguello fight you mentioned. Hearns also had some stinkaroos between the first Leonard fight and the one with Hagler, as well as some afterwards. Eddie Mustafa was involved in a few himself.

I was a huge fan of Arguello back then (probably my favourite fighter at the time), so I did share some of the feelings you did in regards to the outcome of the Pryor fight, how it ended, and then the stories that came out afterwards.

 

[AtlSteel]

Sounds like you have a selective memory since some of those guys you mentioned were involved in fights that lacked much in the way action themselves; Arguello-Fernandez rematch, Spinks-Braxton, Hagler-Duran, etc. Off the top. Those took place within months of that Pryor-Arguello fight you mentioned. Hearns also had some stinkaroos between the first Leonard fight and the one with Hagler, as well as some afterwards. Eddie Mustafa was involved in a few himself.

I was a huge fan of Arguello back then (probably my favourite fighter at the time), so I did share some of the feelings you did in regards to the outcome of the Pryor fight, how it ended, and then the stories that came out afterwards.

Probably have some blood colored glasses as I recall that period, but it definitely seemed more like fights than boxing matches when the best fought the best back then.

 

[Sharkey]

Probably have some blood colored glasses as I recall that period, but it definitely seemed more like fights than boxing matches when the best fought the best back then.

There were a lot of really good fights back then. I'll give you that. Especially that particular year of 1982, which may have been the most action packed year in boxing as far as I can remember. It's just too bad it ended on such a dark note with a proud champion like Arguello being stretched out on the canvas like he was after that fight, the Holmes-Cobb mismatch, Leonard's retirement due to an eye injury, and especially the Mancini-Kim tragedy.

 

[Confucamus]

As great as the first fight was, the second fight was one hell of a war as well. I'm surprised many think it was an easier fight for Pryor because it wasn't. He was getting busted up something fierce before he stormed out of the corner and put in on Arguello. Those are both great fights for boxing fans.