HBO Legendary Nights: Aaron "The Hawk" Pryor vs. "The Explosive Thin Man" Alexis Arguello

[SuikodenII]

First Meeting- Full Fight


Rematch- Full Fight


and be

 

[patscorpio]

great episode......everyone likes to focus in on the controversy of the first fight with panama lewis and the black bottle...but arguello caught an even more serious beatdown in the rematch..pryor didnt take anything then lol

 

[SuikodenII]

Part 3 up now, my bad

great episode......everyone likes to focus in on the controversy of the first fight with panama lewis and the black bottle...but arguello caught an even more serious beatdown in the rematch..pryor didnt take anything then lol

Panama Lewis is a piece of shyt. You don't mix water with water, something was up.

Also, found this interesting

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Fight:16187

• Arguello was trained by Eddie Futch for his first fight with Pryor. He blamed Futch for the loss and fired him. He later apologized to Futch. "It was the biggest mistake of my life," Arguello said. He was trained by Lupe Sanchez for the Pryor rematch.
• Pryor was trained by Panama Lewis for his first fight with Arguello. Lewis had his license revoked after he removed the padding from the gloves of Luis Resto before his fight with Billy Collins Jr. Pryor hired Richie Giachetti to train him, but they had a falling out. Two weeks before the Arguello rematch, Pryor brought in Emanuel Steward as his trainer.

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Argüello#Battles_with_Aaron_Pryor

After defeating James 'Bubba' Busceme by sixth round stoppage, Argüello decided to move up in weight class time again, and on November 12, 1982, he tried to become the first world champion in 4 different categories, meeting the heavier and future Hall-of-Famer Aaron Pryor, in what was billed as The Battle of the Champions in Miami, Florida. Argüello was stopped in the 14th round. The fight sparked controversy however, because Pryor's trainer, Panama Lewis, introduced a second water bottle which he described as "the bottle I mixed" after round 13, leading to speculation that the bottle was tainted. The Florida State Boxing Commission failed to administer a post-fight urinalysis, adding to speculation that the bottle contained an unsanctioned substance.[2][3] It was later revealed in an interview with former Lewis-trained boxer Luis Resto that Lewis would break apart antihistamine pills used to treat asthma and pour the medicine into the water, giving Lewis's fighter greater lung capacity in the later rounds of a fight.[4][5][6] A rematch was ordered. This time, in Las Vegas, Arguello was KO-ed in the tenth, and stated after the fight "I'm not going to fight anymore. I quit." But he later returned to the ring for financial reasons.

And besides the mixed substance, Pryor had taken something else in that first fight...........Arguello's soul

 

[TheProfessor]

Arguello truly one of the most underrated fighters of all time. An INCREDIBLE boxer-puncher. People forget he moved up two divisions to fight this beast on Molly.

 

[yo moms]

Pryor ate that absolute BOMB from Arguello one of the greatest punchers of all time.

That nikka musta been on all kinds of shyt

 

[InvictusAeternusEternus]

Havent seen theses fights in almost 10 years breh +rep and 5 stars if it were possible

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

First Meeting- Full Fight


Rematch- Full Fight


and be

Dude in yellow looking like Jack at a Lakers game

 

[SuikodenII]

Dude in yellow looking like Jack at a Lakers game

That is him. He's an avid fight fan

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

My pops was at that fight, first fight poster I ever had.

 

[Big Boss]

I wish we would have gotten aaron pryor vs srl

 

[King P]

Absolute classic. Both fighters were great. @ the shots Pryor ate from Arguello. Those were some bombs thrown

I wish we would have gotten aaron pryor vs srl

Word. That woulda been a hell of a fight

 

[Yuzo]

I wish we would have gotten aaron pryor vs srl

srl stops him

 

[Big Boss]

srl stops him

I think its a toss up fight

 

[firemanBk]

Panama Lewis is a piece of shyt. You don't mix water with water, something was up.

The shyt he did for the Resto/Collins fight was worse. Removed the padding from the gloves and put plaster of Paris in his wraps. Look at this shyt

Spoiler

They ended that boys career.
He wound up becoming a drunk and killing himself

 

[krackdagawd]

The shyt he did for the Resto/Collins fight was worse. Removed the padding from the gloves and put plaster of Paris in his wraps. Look at this shyt

Spoiler

They ended that boys career.
He wound up becoming a drunk and killing himself

I was just talking about this fight last week. Lewis is still training as well. I think he just can't be at ringside but he is still allowed to train guys.