Michael Nunn on Winning World Title; Hearns, Duran & Sugar Ray Not Wanting to Fight Him (Part 3)
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Michael Nunn opened up about his journey to world championship glory. Nunn's skills in the ring quickly established him as a formidable opponent, to the extent that boxing legends like Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran, and Sugar Ray Leonard reportedly avoided facing him. Nunn pointed out that he never wanted to fight Marvin Hagler because of the respect he had for the late boxer's willingness to offer him guidance and invaluable advice on staying in peak condition and relishing the thrill of the fight. Nunn's prowess shone through when he squared off professionally against Frank Tate, a former amateur rival who had previously bested him. Despite Tate's trash talk, Nunn scored a TKO victory, clinching the IBF world title. This historic win marked a significant milestone, making him the first world champion from Iowa, celebrated by his home community.
Dang Marvin Hagler told him to bring his own judges with him: *His left hand and his right hand.* Brilliant.
Nunn performance against Frank Tate was masterclass. It's one of my favorite fights.
Michael Nunn in his prime was amazing to watch. Counter punching style is legendary.
James Toney became the "pound for pound" best fighter after beating Michael Nunn and taking his title.
Nunn vs Frank Tate is one of the greatest performance ever
Boxing tough sports All up to your offense & defense No teammates to help & no timeout Full 12 Rounds 🥊
And back in his time, it was 15 rounds! True warriors
Wasnt Hearns, Duran, and Sugar Ray were much older than him as well?
And they were naturally smaller than him.
HBO was promoting fights with Nunn against Leonard potentially. Do your research.
Yes!!! Nunn was much younger and they were in a different era.
Not really.
Yes but he was the young lion coming up. They turned pro late 70s and he turned pro Late 80s
This man stoic as hell….
Nunn single handedly put Davenport on the map...
So Roger Craig wasn't a star first?
I was at the gym when Frank Tate was training to fight Michael nun. He was more interested in listening to the basketball game on the radio while he trained half a#++#
Terrific!!
Think of how Aaron Pryor felt. They all dodged him too.
Hagler dodged No One! Pryor wouldn't fight Marvin!
Kool guy🥊🥊 he earned everything he got👊🏾💯
Michael “second to James Toney”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i was a big fan i remember him well
Nunn won his first title in 1988. Suger ray retired in 1991. Duran was 37 in 1988. And Hearns was fighting in a different weight class . Nobody was ducking you.
Yeah they were!
Ray Leonard avoided AAron Pryor like a plague. I am not surprised.
I’m not.
I would, too. Pryor was on amphetamines for his fights.
Hmm yes Aaron Pryor was a great fighter but I think 🤔 as sugar ray leonard beat hagler hearns duran and benitez , he'd have a good chance of beating Pryor. Plus Pryor allegedly drank super ( popeye the sailer man drinks ) against alexis arguello . They were all great fighters.
Pryor allegedly gave Ray about all he could handle when they used to spar together so go figure
Cap. Pryor was offered 500k for SRL, and Pryor turned it down. They upped it to 750k still said no, he wanted a 1mil. That ended the negotiations.
Nunn would've beat them all, no question!
Not James Toney though...🤔
@@cuttycut2324 Tell that Roy Jones!
Not Hagler
Leonard was scared of Nunn. At one of Nunn’s fights he kept on screaming cuss words at him to try to rattle him. It didn’t work and Nunn easily won his fight.
MMMMMM 🤔🤔🤔
I hope all the fake boxing fans heard that ....
the four kings ducked Michael Nunn
they also ducked Aaron the hawk Pryor
But apparently that's the golden age of boxing
lol 😮😮😂
James Toney put hands on u though
Toney was trailing in that fight. Put some respect on Nunn.
call daygo 😂
He was going really well, then HBO dropped him when he started to fall off and his fights became 12 round snoozers. He was still undefeated, but even when he went to fight James Toney the fight wasn't even on. It was weird how Nunn just became invisible. And you kept expecting him to get back to his 1988 form and it just never happened.
You are wrong. He was a showtime fighter first. Fighting Tate and Roldan on ppv, then he koed Kalambay on hbo and decisioned Barkley, he went back to showtime and fought starling and curry and then lost to Toney on ppv
@@lymanpauli517 If I'm starting the story when he's at his hottest, then that would be the Kalambay fight, which was on HBO. He didn't headline any PPVs prior to that and I don't know when he woulda been on Showtime prior to that unless they aired him against Darnell Knox or Mike Tinley or someone. I don't recall. It was a long time ago. But he was on HBO, then he wasn't, starting either with the Barkley snoozefest or the Starling one. And when it's 1989/1990 and you go from headlining HBO events to fighting on obscure PPVs out of Davenport, that's a fall-off. And here on the west coast in 1990, I found out Michael Nunn lost his belt by reading Ring. It's a weird trajectory man. To him being the next big thing to not even knowing he's fighting even though he's still undefeated.
@@bennylevine387 again he won the title against Frank Tate on showtime likely his best outing ever, he fought Juan roldan next on showtime as the co main to Hearns vs olijide, he then jumped to hbo for Kalambay, Barkley, and Starling. He went back to showtime for the Donald curry fight. Then the Toney fight was picked up by tvko which was doing the majority of the ppvs then. It was a homecoming for Nunn. Zero to do with him being a dwindling star. Nunn 6 fight stretch before losing to Toney in a bout he was clearly winning, along with later winning the super middleweight title, has him finally on the hall of fame ballot. At his peak which isn’t necessarily the Kalambay fight because I believe had they fought another 20 times, he never duplicates that first rd ko. That wasn’t who he was as a fighter. But he caught Kalambay cold. Another who deserves hof consideration.
@@bennylevine387 and again, it was actually 1991 may to be exact as I just moved to the west coast. I watched it live on ppv and still have my vhs copy. It was not an obscure card. Michael carbajal defended his title and Vince Phillips also saw action.
@@lymanpauli517 First off. I don't really follow the comings and goings of the Boxing HOF, but I find it brings disrepute to them to not have already put Nunn in there years ago, his legal trouble notwithstanding. But in regards to your point, this isn't about me trying to be Rainman about what exact networks carried specific fights from 35 years ago. To be on HBO headlining big fights in Vegas is one step from the PPV upper-elite of the time of SRL, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, etc. He was on the cusp of that. Whether it's HBO or Showtime isn't the essence of my point. But I can verify that if you bought stock in Nunn in 1988-89, it had dropped by 1990-91. And having some still-developing 1988 Olympian or Olympic alternates on the card isn't sweetening the deal any. This was supposed to be his prime, not playing slapazs with a dwarfed Marlon Starling then taking on a 20-to-1 underdog in his grand homecoming that you seem to remember as some PPV bonanza. "Oh, yeah, you mean to tell me I get to see an up and coming Carbajal and fkn Vince Phillips who didn't make the Olympic team and is on the pipe, and on top of that I get to see Nunn who looked like crap in his last three fights take on a 20-to-1 unknown? FEVER!!!"
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A smaller James Toney knock him the f*** out and basically ended his career!
Nunn beat the shit outta Frank Tate.
I remember they certainly duck him
They were all old at that point
Michael second to nunn was a superb boxer . However in the welterweight to middleweight class sugar ray leonard was the best, thats why his name keeps getting mentioned. Their are many if maybe and could have been boxers at all weights. Michael Nunn was just one if them, an unpolished diamond 💎 who made the wrong decisions in life .
wu tang.
While I respect this brother,he was highly overrated and more flash than anything else,plus his chin was weak.
Overrated but still a champion
He absolutely was overrated. No chin
I agree
He's not overrated he's underrated if anything, he was winning the fight vs Toney until he got caught and dropped.
@@AnthonyArnold-ct1ci what big name has he beaten?
I thought this guy was doing time. What a pathetic loser. Toney smeared him.
Tommy hearns biggest flaw against Nunn would be his chin.